Law
A selection of recent articles on this topic
A Terrible Ruling Against a Terrible Film
It may seem hard to get upset that the Ninth Circuit recently demanded that YouTube take down…
John Wesley and Religious Freedom
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
I am no stranger to incendiary language. Organizations on the left and the right alike use loaded…
Professor Grayson’s Crusade
J Paul Grayson, a sociology professor at York University in Toronto, received a request from a male…
Not Duffers, Won’t Drown
These stories are all about unsupervised children,” my oldest daughter observed years ago, when we were reading…
The Myth of Government Neutrality
Should a government in a pluralist society such as the United States be neutral with respect to…
A Nation of Valjeans
Jean Valjean was found guilty: The terms of the penal code were explicit. In our civilization there…
The Present State of Our Polygamous Future
In an interview on the science in science fiction, novelist William Gibson noted, “[T]he future is already…
Waiting for St. Vladimir
Alasdair MacIntyre, who is probably the greatest living philosopher, concludes his 1981 masterwork After Virtue by saying,…
Race Matters
Americans like to think of their history as a success story. And so, by most measures, and…
While We’re At It
• Remember the alliance of atheists who offered to take care of your pets in the event…
Arendt, Augustine, and the New Beginning
ARENDT, AUGUSTINE, AND THE NEW BEGINNING by Stephan Kampowski Eerdmans, 364 pages, $50 paper This scholarly study…
Lives and Legacies
Biography, Virginia Woolf once observed, is the search for the fertile fact. The four best biographies of…
Pontius Pilate: The Unjust Judge
As a lawyer and judge, my understanding of the Bible has naturally become colored by my experiences…
Women’s Work
Madwomen:The Locas Mujeres Poems of Gabriela Mistral translated by Randall Couch University of Chicago Press, 160 pages,…
