Law
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Roberts And Roe v. Wade
In last week’s June Medical decision, the Supreme Court overturned a Louisiana law requiring hospital admitting privileges…
The Biases of a Royal Commission
A brief dip into Latin helps us understand how preconceptions can lead to biased judgments that falsify…
Elijah Comes
Of the seven words of Jesus from the cross, none is so inscrutable as the cry of…
A Quarantine Syllabus for Teenage Boys
Okay, First Things parents. Those of you with adolescent boys at home—you need help. So do I.…
Discernment in Plague-Times
For some time, whenever I recommended Kristin Lavransdatter to friends I kept forgetting about the plague. I…
“Wittenberg” in Synodal Slow Motion
As Yale’s Carlos Eire masterfully demonstrated in Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450–1650, there was no one…
The First Commandment of Fiction
What insults my soul,” Zadie Smith confessed last year in The New York Review of Books, “is…
China’s Second Cultural Revolution
China’s Cultural Revolution (1966–76) occupies a place high in the annals of human savagery. Mao Zedong’s purges…
The Martini Curve Revisited
Pope Francis concluded his pre-Christmas address to the Roman Curia by invoking the memory of Cardinal Carlo…
The Ecstasy of the Mob
In his review of the 1946 French film Panique, critic Bilge Ebiri observes that mob behavior is…
Leaders Who Can’t Lead
In my forty years as a student and teacher in higher education, I have seen the humanities,…
Let’s Fix the Pornography Problem
In 2016, Donald Trump made one of the most important promises of his campaign: Elect me, and I will…
Against the “Fairness For All” Act
The “Fairness for All” Act (FFA), introduced December 6 by Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT), claims to arrive…
“Fairness For All” Is Unfair
I recently gave a presentation on transgenderism to a group of suburban Minnesotans. After my talk, an…
Porn Is Not a Blessing of Liberty
Last week, four Republican congressmen sent a missive to U.S. Attorney General William Barr. This one-page letter…
