Public Life

The War on the Hippocratic Oath

The Department of Health and Human Services is creating a new Conscience and Religious Freedom Division—a good sign for pro-life doctors. Continue Reading »

2 Feb 2018

Tom Cotton and the Raging Infants

by Pete Spiliakos

Does Senator Tom Cotton have the discipline to face the elite left’s raging tantrums, and the wisdom to help craft a populist agenda worthy of our country? Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2018

Prisoners Are Not Animals

by Alexi Sargeant

It’s popular to pretend condemned criminals like Larry Nassar are animals or monsters, not human beings; but Christians do not have that luxury. Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2018

DEADLY DESERTS Paul Griffiths’s sneering review of our book, By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed (“Against Capital Punishment,” December 2017), illustrates how much bile—and how little charity—is often to be found in those who speak the loudest of mercy and humanity. Griffiths suggests . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2018

Postliberal Theology

by R. R. Reno

Blood pressure is rising. Folks are worried about “illiberalism.” In a November issue of the Washington Post, Anne Applebaum warned of a rising “neo-Bolshevism” assailing the West: “Donald Trump, Viktor Orban, Nigel Farage, Marine Le Pen and Jaroslaw Kacyniski.” Others have more . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2018

The Metaphysics of Democracy

by Thomas Joseph White

Liberalism began as a political project that sought to curtail the role of religion in public life. Religious impulses haven’t proven easy to expel, however, even in secular societies. Contemporary secular liberalism aspires to be a universal project that supplants traditional religion and . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2018