Law

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Supreme Incoherence: Transgender Ideology and the End of Law

Jeff Shafer

In The Trouble with Principle, Stanley Fish recites an observation that John Milton included in his Areopagitica:…

The Benedict Option and the Way of Exchange

Alan Jacobs

Surely there has never been a richer and more deeply faithful model of Christian faith and practice…

Persuasive Disciples, Not Anarchic Disrupters

George Weigel

We are living through a dangerous moment in our national life, of an intensity and potential for…

How Many Foreigners Is an American Worth?

James R. Rogers

How do, or how should, Christian Americans answer the question of the moment: “Does the welfare of…

The Bishop and the Nazis

Daniel Utrecht

Count Clemens August von Galen, a member of an old aristocratic family, was consecrated Bishop of Münster…

“Speciesism” Opens the Door to Bigotry

Wesley J. Smith

Princeton bioethicist Peter Singer popularized “speciesism,” a derogatory term for the belief that it is acceptable to…

Our Faint-Hearted Nationalists

Pete Spiliakos

If left-wing cosmopolitanism wins, it will be because our conservative nationalists were insufficiently nationalist. It will be…

Dear Johannes Cochlaeus: Enough Already

Christopher Jackson

Dear Johannes Cochlaeus, You always were a clever one, but this time you’ve gone too far. You…

Evangelicals in Exile

Matthew Milliner

When I was an evangelical convert in high school in the 1990s, the Religious Right was rallying—not…

The Pig-Man Isn’t

Wesley J. Smith

There has been much handwringing about the news that scientists injected human stem cells into pig embryos,…

The Flight 216 Selection

Adrian Vermeule

Judge Neil Gorsuch is a walking, talking Hollywood writer’s pitch: “I’ve got it! Antonin Scalia meets Jimmy…

Briefly Noted

Nathaniel Peters

Bach & God by michael marissen oxford, 288 pages, $35 Michael Marissen, emeritus professor of music at…

Bioethics in 2017

Wesley J. Smith

Aside from Donald Trump’s call to “repeal and replace” Obamacare and Hillary Clinton’s promise to repeal the…

My Orange Juice Came from Brazil

Robert P. Cummins

A couple of weeks ago when I was having breakfast, I noticed that my “not from concentrate”…

A “Merciless Assault on Human Dignity”

George Weigel

The archbishop of Toronto is given to deprecating himself as “just a simple country cardinal.” In my…