Law

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Lent at Planned Parenthood

Charlotte Allen

A few days ago I did something I’d never done before: I joined a group of people…

For Love of God and of Us

R. J. Matava

February 1, 2018 marked the passing of Germain Gabriel Grisez, a man of the Church and one…

Mac Donald, Peterson, Paglia . . . the New Sources

Mark Bauerlein

One of our editor-in-chief’s repeated contentions is that the Establishment no longer enjoys the confidence of the…

Preparing for Winter

Carl R. Trueman

Last weekend I had the pleasure of lecturing at the American Enterprise Institute’s Values and Capitalism Faculty…

Censoring Christmas at the Bus Stop

Charlotte Allen

The Christmas-themed ad proposed by the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., to be placed on public buses…

The Roy Moore Postmortem

John Murdock

When Doug Jones defeated Roy Moore, the pro-life cause took a bullet but dodged a grenade. There…

Toward Reality-Based Conservatism

R. R. Reno

Robert T. Miller thinks I’m off my rocker for imagining that our era is one of unprecedented…

Sex, Scandal, and Politics

R. R. Reno

Decades ago, liberal young people would say, “Let it all hang out.” The innately conservative Peter Berger…

Not Rights, But Power

Charlotte Allen

Jack Phillips claims to be an artist—and he is. Photos of the beautiful hand-decorated cakes he has…

Self-Sacrificial Love in the Bioethics-Sphere

Wesley J. Smith

Kiss today goodbye And point me toward tomorrow. We did what we had to do. Won’t forget, can’t regret What…

Apple Sabotages Itself

Justin Lee

Perhaps these laws we are trying to unravel do not exist at all. There is a small…

A Harvest of Witnesses

William Mumma

In Greek mythology, Sisyphus is a crafty and deceitful king, condemned by Zeus to roll a huge…

Our Misguided War on Legalism

Joshua Gibbs

I opened my sophomore Medieval Humanities class this year by reading the Franciscan rule to my students…

The Still-Acceptable Prejudice

Charlotte Allen

On October 5, Notre Dame law professor Amy Coney Barrett barely—just barely—won the approval of the Senate…

Fencing with Bigots

George Weigel

. . . being an imaginary dialogue between a nominee to a Federal appeals court and members…