Dobbs is a decisive turning point on the road to securing an equal right to life for every human being, in the womb and out of it. It is the end of the beginning of the greatest civil rights struggle of our time. Continue Reading »
By overruling Roe, the Court has done the country a great service. We are relieved of the scandal—moral, legal, and political—that was the Roe/Casey order, under which our most fundamental law was interpreted as endorsing a right to kill the unborn. Continue Reading »
The progressive imagination envisions a limitless future. Karl Marx thought that modern industrial production marked a new epoch in human history. Amid explosive growth during the industrial revolution, he thought we were on the cusp of material abundance. Marx argued that if we rejected the . . . . Continue Reading »
News that the Supreme Court may overturn one of the worst legal decisions in our nation’s history is welcome, but it cannot heal the harm already done by abortion culture. Continue Reading »
A law forcing Jews to attend Mass or Protestants to keep kosher would be imposing religion on others. Pro-life laws do no such thing. Continue Reading »
In 2022, SNL’s sword of comedy only cuts one way, and its blade is far from razor-sharp. Abortion is simply too important to them to be a laughing matter. Continue Reading »
While threats to disrupt worship en masse and even burn the sacramental elements seem to be overblown so far, the backlash against religion is surely a sign of the times. Continue Reading »
After the Dobbs leak, justices will feel less secure about the confidentiality of their deliberations and think twice about what they put in drafts. The work of the Court will inevitably suffer. Continue Reading »
The West no longer has any consensus on what it means to be a woman or even a person. Continue Reading »
Hadley Arkes joins R. R. Reno for a discussion of the opportunities and challenges of a post-Roe future. Continue Reading »
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