Human Rights

Human Rights As a Religion

The left often talks about Human Rights as though it were a kind of religion and, in fact, an improvement on the old faith. Continue Reading »

16 Dec 2015

Christians, the State Department, and Genocide

by Mark Movsesian

How is it acceptable to tell religious minorities that things are comparatively good for them because they can “choose” to accept oppressive and demeaning treatment and manage to survive? Continue Reading »

9 Dec 2015

Briefly Noted

by Various

Faith, Fiction and Force in Medieval Baptismal Debates by marcia colish cua, 384 pages, $69.95 B aptism seems so simple: water and the formula “In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” But like so many religious practices, it can be celebrated in different ways, with . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2015

Human Dignity, Human Rights

by Michael Novak

Copyright (c) 1999 First Things 97 (November 1999): 39-42. Fifty years ago, a tangle of intellectual and diplomatic puzzles blocked the world from agreeing on a universal code of human rights. In the years 1945-1948 the world was emerging only slowly from the devastation of the war that had burned . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 1999

The RU-486 Icon

by Peter J. Leithart

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1 Mar 1992

Rights and Wrongs About Rights

by Robert A. Licht

Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourseby Mary Ann GlendonFree Press, 288 pages, $22.95 One of the dubious achievements of American legal philosophers and academicians concerned with “rights” is to have emptied jurisprudence of the element of prudence. Constitutional . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 1992

Consequences of Columbus

by Robert Royal

Just when we were convinced that Newsweek, like its counterpart Time, is an essentially superficial magazine for hurried people who want information without having to think, the mail brought the Fall/Winter 1991 Columbus Special Issue. Produced in collaboration with the “Seeds of . . . . Continue Reading »