Law

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Not Just For Profit

Travis Weber

Post-argument predictions will continue to pour out regarding Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties v. Sebelius, cases…

Implied Consent

Michael A. Helfand

Today, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether the Affordable Care Act’s “contraception mandate”—the requirement that…

A Terrible Ruling Against a Terrible Film

Gabriel Rossman

It may seem hard to get upset that the Ninth Circuit recently demanded that YouTube take down…

John Wesley and Religious Freedom

Mark Tooley

Lumping together the recently attempted Arizona religious freedom law with new criminal laws against homosexuality in Nigeria…

Talking Religious Freedom at the Center for American Progress

John Murdock

I am no stranger to incendiary language. Organizations on the left and the right alike use loaded…

Professor Grayson’s Crusade

Paul Allen

J Paul Grayson, a sociology professor at York University in Toronto, received a request from a male…

Not Duffers, Won’t Drown

Sally Thomas

These stories are all about unsupervised children,” my oldest daughter observed years ago, when we were reading…

The Myth of Government Neutrality

Anna Williams

Should a government in a pluralist society such as the United States be neutral with respect to…

A Nation of Valjeans

Leah Libresco Sargeant

Jean Valjean was found guilty: The terms of the penal code were explicit. In our civilization there…

The Present State of Our Polygamous Future

Joe Carter

In an interview on the science in science fiction, novelist William Gibson noted, “[T]he future is already…

Waiting for St. Vladimir

Robert T. Miller

Alasdair MacIntyre, who is probably the greatest living philosopher, concludes his 1981 masterwork After Virtue by saying,…

Race Matters

James Nuechterlein

Americans like to think of their history as a success story. And so, by most measures, and…

While We’re At It

R. R. Reno

• Remember the alliance of atheists who offered to take care of your pets in the event…

Arendt, Augustine, and the New Beginning

O.P. Romanus Cessario

ARENDT, AUGUSTINE, AND THE NEW BEGINNING by Stephan Kampowski Eerdmans, 364 pages, $50 paper This scholarly study…

Lives and Legacies

Justin Torres

Biography, Virginia Woolf once observed, is the search for the fertile fact. The four best biographies of…