Law
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Editorial: What Can Be Asked of a Judge
A number of important questions touching on religion and public life were raised early on in connection…
God and Man at Tuscaloosa
A friend of mine, more radical and pessimistic than I, claims that it is illegal to be…
Editorial: The Politics of Religious Freedom: A Remedy Reconsidered
Many of our readers have been intensely and rightly concerned about threatening turns in the Supreme Court’s…
The Constitution and the Erotic Self
The history books tell us that Gavrilo Princip, the Serbian nationalist who shot and killed Austrian Archduke…
The Popes and the Economy
Papal doctrine on political economy has long been misunderstood as well as mistrusted among those economic liberals…
Editorial: That Encyclical
We do not ordinarily publish official church statements. In fact, we never have before. This issue, however,…
White Firefighters, Hank Aaron, and Affirmative Action
Just when the Supreme Court is beginning to reconsider “affirmative action” plans that provide preferences on the…
Capitalism: The Continuing Revolution
When I wrote The Capitalist Revolution five years ago, the word revolution was, of course, intended to…
Aristocrats at Bay
The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy by David Cannadine Yale University Press, 813 pages, $39.95…
The University in Moral Shambles
The good news is that more people are paying attention to the bad news. In the past…
Religion and Public Life
Under God: Religion and American Politics by garry wills simon and schuster, 445 pages, $24.95 Garry Wills…
The Rich, the Poor, and Reaganomics
When we come to measure the success of a presidency, it matters a great deal whether the…
When Church-State Conflicts Aren’t
Here is a review in a national publication of a book about religion in American public life.…
An Open Letter to the Religious Community
T he signers of this letter have been active for many years in both scholarship and litigation…
The Theses of Martin Luther King, Jr.
News stories of recent months underscore the fact that the place of Martin Luther King, Jr. in…
