Law

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Religious Freedom and American History

Stephen Cox

Stephen Cox is Professor of Literature at the University of California-San Diego, editor of Liberty, a journal…

Seduced and Betrayed

Amy Wax

Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil? by paul bloom crown, 288 pages, $26 On a…

A Legal Perspective on the Marriage Pledge

Mark McCall

Many of the responses to the Marriage Pledge from both sides of the divide on same-sex marriage have…

Why I Changed My Mind on Civil Marriage

Ephraim Radner

Christopher Seitz and I recently formulated a “marriage pledge,” which First Things has hosted. It asks signers…

To Rend Is Not to Retreat

R. R. Reno

Due to an editorial error, a non-final draft of this article was initially posted. Please accept our…

Death With Aesthetics

Wesley J. Smith

We don’t speak plainly in public discourse anymore. Rather, we equivocate and deploy euphemisms to sanitize our…

Frank Wolf: An Appreciation

George Weigel

For the first time since 1978, Frank Wolf’s name will not appear on the November ballot in…

Of Michael Landon and Brittany Maynard

Wesley J. Smith

Michael Landon, the hugely popular television star of Bonanza, Little House on the Prairie, and Highway to…

A Paradigm Shift in International Development

Stephen Phelan

Someone from the international aid and development industry has some explaining to do. In an analysis of financial…

Lethal Ageism

Wesley J. Smith

A story out of Belgium vividly illustrates how our elderly are becoming personae non gratae in a…

Sacramental Economy

Peter J. Leithart

Money is something of a mystery. Classical economics views money as a commodity that is selected as…

Standing Against the Human “Dignity Deniers”

Wesley J. Smith

God may not be dead, but considering the imago Dei in philosophical discourse and public policy certainly…

We Must Fight ISIS with More than Missiles

Thomas F. Farr

The following testimony was given before Sub-Committees of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, September 10, 2014.…

Why Gay Rights Are Not The New Civil Rights

Stephen H. Webb

Supporters of same-sex marriage love to make analogies to the African American Civil Rights Movement. Analogies are…

Religion in a Heart-Shaped Box

Owen Strachan

I never have known the joy of owning a small, pink, heart-shaped music box. In point of…