Law
A selection of recent articles on this topic
A Mormon Perspective on Religious Freedom
The following was delivered Friday, March 25, 2016, at Claremont Graduate University by Elder Dallin H. Oaks…
Dignity v. Freedom
Justice Kennedy concluded his majority opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges with this summary: Gay couples “ask for…
Canada Declares War on Christian Doctors and Nurses
Last year, the Canadian Supreme Court created a right to euthanasia and assisted suicide. To qualify for…
Inescapably Natural
Natural Law in Court: A History of Legal Theory in Practiceby r. h. helmholzharvard, 288 pages, $45…
After Justice Scalia
The death of Justice Antonin Scalia on February 13 – unexpected and, for many reasons, tragic –…
Justice Scalia on Funeral Sermons
When Jessica Mitford first published The American Way of Death in 1963, she unleashed a broadside against…
Funeral Homily for Justice Antonin Scalia
We are gathered here because of one man. A man known personally to many of us, known…
Getting it Right with the Constitution
The sudden death of Justice Antonin Scalia forces us to reconsider the role that the Constitution plays…
Memories of Nino
It began, for me, with a voice over the phone in May 1977: “Hadley, this is Nino…
Free Exercise, Penance, and Delaware Court
Regular First Things readers know that the late Father Richard John Neuhaus never tired of arguing that…
Mainstreaming “Animal Personhood”
Complacency is cultural subversion’s best friend. You know what I mean: When a radical proposal is voiced,…
Anger and Citizenship
The Iowa caucuses are in the rear-view mirror, the New Hampshire primary looms on the horizon, and…
The Third Temptation
In the mid-1970s, the famous Mennonite theologian and ethicist John Howard Yoder visited Calvin College to give…
The Terminators
Canada’s pending legislation on euthanasia and assisted suicide raises a question: What shall we call people who…
“Remembrance of Death” Can Overcome “Death Obsession”
I was once approached by a member of the Hemlock Society after I had delivered a speech…
