Law
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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…
The Passing of the Voting Rights Act
In 1965, the U.S. Congress made a seismic decision. Faced with the disenfranchisement of black voters on…
A Good Word for Locke
The lecturer was setting forth a biblical perspective on the role of government, with special attention to…
Why Is Religious Freedom At Risk?
In recent political memory, religious liberty was a value that brought together conservatives, libertarians, and progressives. As…
What Clarence Thomas Meant
In the public square, many misuse the word “dignity” by conflating its subjective and objective meanings. Some…
