Law
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Censoring Christmas at the Bus Stop
The Christmas-themed ad proposed by the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., to be placed on public buses…
The Roy Moore Postmortem
When Doug Jones defeated Roy Moore, the pro-life cause took a bullet but dodged a grenade. There…
Toward Reality-Based Conservatism
Robert T. Miller thinks I’m off my rocker for imagining that our era is one of unprecedented…
Sex, Scandal, and Politics
Decades ago, liberal young people would say, “Let it all hang out.” The innately conservative Peter Berger…
Not Rights, But Power
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
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
Perhaps these laws we are trying to unravel do not exist at all. There is a small…
A Harvest of Witnesses
In Greek mythology, Sisyphus is a crafty and deceitful king, condemned by Zeus to roll a huge…
Our Misguided War on Legalism
I opened my sophomore Medieval Humanities class this year by reading the Franciscan rule to my students…
The Still-Acceptable Prejudice
On October 5, Notre Dame law professor Amy Coney Barrett barely—just barely—won the approval of the Senate…
Fencing with Bigots
. . . being an imaginary dialogue between a nominee to a Federal appeals court and members…
An Empty Parliament
My nastier, more vindictive side rather hopes that it will take so long to renovate the British…
In Praise of Borders
Borders are a substitute used by less fortunate lands for the sea and the mountains behind which…
Euthanasia for Alzheimer’s Patients?
The medically vulnerable have rarely been in greater jeopardy. Alzheimer’s disease patients are at particular risk. In…
Euthanasia and the Belgian Brothers of Charity
Over a decade before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel of New Orleans formally moved to…
