Law
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Of Vincent Lambert and Ethical Rubicons
Vincent Lambert is dead. The forty-two-year-old Frenchman, who breathed his last yesterday in Reims, didn’t die by…
Unalienable Rights and Foreign Policy
On May 30, a surprise notice in the Federal Register roiled the landscape of international human rights…
The London Ideology
London is perhaps the most open city in the world—open to the millions who come for the…
Business As Communion
During a visit to Brazil in 1991, the Italian Catholic activist Chiara Lubich called for a new…
American Hinterland
Hinterland: America’s New Landscape of Class and Conflictby phil a. neeluniversity of chicago, 192 pages, $20 In…
Interpreting the Bladensburg Cross Case
Last week, the Supreme Court decided the much-awaited Bladensburg Cross case, American Legion v. American Humanist Association. …
Public Faith and the Peace Cross
On Thursday, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in the case American Legion v. American Humanist…
Accommodating Injustice
In his advice to princes, Niccolò Machiavelli observed, “there are two kinds of fighting: the one with…
Reasonable Doubts About Pell’s Conviction
Catholics and non-Catholics around the world are justly outraged by the crimes and coverups of the Church’s…
Abortion and Eugenics
In the Supreme Court’s May 28 decision in Box v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, the…
Rethinking the History of Religious Freedom
In the Supreme Court case Minersville School District v. Gobitis, 1940, which upheld compulsory pledging of allegiance…
Staying the Course
On May 15, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed legislation that protects nearly all unborn children in the state.…
Against Pro-Life Incrementalism
A crop of center-right commentators offered the pro-life movement some strategy tips last week. Responding to apparent…
The Big Tech Threat
This essay was originally delivered as a speech at the Hoover Institution on May 2, 2019. Social…
The Next America
Nearly a decade ago, Archbishop Charles Chaput warned religious believers to prepare for the “Next America.” He predicted that…
