Law
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Don’t Celebrate Trump’s Religious Liberty Executive Order
Last week, in a Rose Garden ceremony, President Trump released a much-anticipated executive order on religious liberty.…
Adam Smith’s Civilizing Process
Adam Smith is known as the founding theorist of capitalism. Surprisingly, he agreed with many of his…
Après Gorsuch le Deluge
Did you find the Gorsuch hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee a depressing exercise in political theater?…
Hillary Clinton and Rich, White, Crooked Liberalism
The agonies of the Hillary Clinton campaign are rendered—mostly in boring detail—in the new book Shattered. Most…
Let’s Not Make a Deal…at Least this Deal
Helping those who have broken away from the Catholic Church come back into full communion is a…
Homage to a Christian Humanist
When John T. Noonan, Jr. died last week at the age of 90, the American people lost…
Kink is Not Conscience
Why are some conservative-leaning writers defending Larry Garfield? Garfield was until recently a major developer at Drupal,…
Evolving Toward Africa
We Westerners know how modernization works. Light dawns in the north and west and spreads Reason and…
The Papal View from the Global South
This Economy Kills: Pope Francis on Capitalism and Social Justiceby andrea tornielli and giacomo galeazzi, trans. by…
The Importance of Jackie Robinson
In the history of the modern American civil rights movement, three iconic moments are typically cited. May…
We Should All Be Grateful for Gorsuch
Liberals who are dismayed by the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch should cheer up. Things…
Five Lessons from Francis de Sales
Given the growing challenges now facing Christians, a valuable source to turn to, for wisdom and strength,…
Rivers Declared to Be “Persons”
We live in truly surreal times. In an age when all human beings still do not have…
God’s Image, Man’s Crimes
Yesterday I discussed parts of Shane Claiborne’s Biblical arguments in Executing Grace in favor of abolishing the…
Death Penalties and the Divine
In Executing Grace: How the Death Penalty Killed Jesus and Why It’s Killing Us, Shane Claiborne argues…
