Law

A selection of recent articles on this topic

For the Religious Freedom Restoration Act

W. Cole Durham, Jr., Edward McGlynn Gaffney, Douglas Laycock, and Michael W. McConnell

For those who are committed to protecting the unborn and to preserving our traditional moral heritage, it…

The Big Economic Lie

Michael Novak

There they go again. The presidential election of 1992 is bringing out among politicians and the media…

Natural Law and the Constitution

Robert H. Bork

Natural law seems an unlikely topic for extensive television coverage, nor would one expect United States senators…

Religion & the Court: A New Beginning?

Mary Ann Glendon

Mention the First Amendment to any lawyer, and the odds are excellent that he or she will…

Coming to Terms with the East German Past

John P. Burgess

It has been more than two years since that fateful Thursday evening in East Berlin. At a…

Evangelicals and Capitalism

Amy L. Sherman

With Liberty and Justice for Whom? The Recent Evangelical Debate Over Capitalism by craig m. gay, foreword…

Rights and Wrongs About Rights

Robert A. Licht

Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse by Mary Ann Glendon Free Press, 288 pages, $22.95 One…

Animal Rights, Human Rights

Thomas Sieger Derr

The power of the movement for animal rights—a movement that until recently was located for most people…

Always to Care, Never to Kill:

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The following declaration was produced by the Ramsey Colloquium of the Institute on Religion and Public Life…

Death in the Netherlands

Russell Hittinger

Regulating Death: Euthanasia and the Case of the Netherlands by carlos gomez, m.d., foreword by leon r.…

Protestants and Natural Law

J. Daryl Charles

It is hard to make generalizations about Protestant theology, given the inherently splintered nature of Protestantism and…

Trading Needles

Bonnie Shullenberger

It was the standard civil disobedience defense: they did it not for themselves, but in response to…

Editorial: Euthanasia: Final Exit, Final Excuse

The Editors

At year’s end, the eyes of the world turn again to an infant who is, so Christians…

Always Among Us

Lawrence M. Mead

The Urban Underclass edited by christopher jencks and paul e. peterson brookings institution publications, 490 pages, $34.95…

Looking at Islam After Kipling and Hesse

Richard John Neuhaus

Books on Islam, we are told, are enjoying brisk sales. For reasons related to the imperialist past…