Law
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Equality Across Borders
Rediscovering America: Liberty, Equality, and the Crisis of Democracy by john agrestoasahina & wallace, 236 pages, $16.00…
Why Tolerate Religion?
Why Tolerate Religion? by Brian Leiter princeton university press, 216 pages, $45.00 Brian Leiter’s Why Tolerate Religion? is…
A Thanksgiving Meditation on Freedom and Its Enemies
Shortly after jihadist murderers killed over 130 people in Paris, seven of the terrorists blowing themselves up…
You Are Not an Ape
Pedro Pozas, a Spanish animal-rights activist, made international headlines in 2006 when he declared, “I am an…
If the Law Isn’t In Heaven, Where Is It?
What’s Divine About Divine Law? by Christine Hayes Princeton, 432 pages, $39.50 In one of its more…
Deadly Progressivism
We’re in the midst of a crisis. The New York Times reports that Angus Deaton and Ann…
The New York Times’s Misanthropy
The mainstream media are misanthropic. Article after column after editorial published in our most prominent news outlets…
Evangelicals and Animals
Ribs are getting harder to eat. I was gnawing on some nice tender bones in Memphis recently,…
A Tale of Two Cities—And of Two Churches
You will recall the lapidary opening of Dickens’s famous novel of London and Paris in the period…
RSVP “No” to Suicide Party
Back in 1991, I received an invitation to a party. My elderly friend Frances wanted to die.…
The Myth of America’s Religious Founding
Inventing a Christian America: The Myth of the Religious Founding by Steven K. Green Oxford, 312 pages,…
Kim Davis and the Mess She’s In
Once upon a time I was a sworn officer of the State of Kansas, occupying a statutory…
Will Progressives Require Doctors to Kill?
Secularist threats against religious liberty are spreading like a stain. Thus, I was attracted immediately to Bruce…
Kim Davis’s Conscientious Decision
I’m sympathetic to Kim Davis, the county clerk in Kentucky who has stopped signing marriage licenses. In…
Burning Churches in Israel
Earlier this summer, in the spot on the Sea of Galilee traditionally hailed as the site of…