Law

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Uncovering the History of the Abortion Debate

Berny Belvedere

After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate by mary zieglerharvard university press, 400 pages, $39.95…

Authority, Given and Received

Peter J. Leithart

When Pontius Pilate warns Jesus that he has authority over life and death, Jesus reminds him, “you…

What Euthanasia Enthusiasts Really Want

Wesley J. Smith

Assisted-suicide advocacy is wrapped in euphemisms and false assurances. We are often told that medicalized killing will…

Looking Toward November 8

George Weigel

To redeploy a phrase from President Ford, our “long national nightmare”—in this case, the semi-permanent presidential campaign—will…

Why We Cannot Reach Compromise

Wesley J. Smith

The other day, I read a column in the National Post that made my stomach turn. It…

In Carbon and Capitalism We Trust?

John Murdock

At the Crossroads” was ostensibly a conservative gathering in Austin to discuss energy and “so-called global warming”…

Equality Across Borders

John Rose

Rediscovering America: Liberty, Equality, and the Crisis of Democracy by john agrestoasahina & wallace, 236 pages, $16.00…

Why Tolerate Religion?

Rafael Domingo

Why Tolerate Religion? by Brian Leiter princeton university press, 216 pages, $45.00 Brian Leiter’s Why Tolerate Religion? is…

A Thanksgiving Meditation on Freedom and Its Enemies

George Weigel

Shortly after jihadist murderers killed over 130 people in Paris, seven of the terrorists blowing themselves up…

You Are Not an Ape

Wesley J. Smith

Pedro Pozas, a Spanish animal-rights activist, made international headlines in 2006 when he declared, “I am an…

If the Law Isn’t In Heaven, Where Is It?

Benjamin Silver

What’s Divine About Divine Law?  by Christine Hayes Princeton, 432 pages, $39.50 In one of its more…

Deadly Progressivism

R. R. Reno

We’re in the midst of a crisis. The New York Times reports that Angus Deaton and Ann…

The New York Times’s Misanthropy

Wesley J. Smith

The mainstream media are misanthropic. Article after column after editorial published in our most prominent news outlets…

Evangelicals and Animals

John Murdock

Ribs are getting harder to eat. I was gnawing on some nice tender bones in Memphis recently,…

A Tale of Two Cities—And of Two Churches

John Haldane

You will recall the lapidary opening of Dickens’s famous novel of London and Paris in the period…