Law
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Starvation as the New “Death with Dignity”
Self-starvation has become the latest craze among the “death with dignity” crowd. This has been coming on for…
We Need More First Amendment Freedom, Not Less
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously wrote that the answer to objectionable speech “is more speech,…
What Happened to Switzerland
In 2008, bioethicist Yuval Levin in his book Imagining the Future: Science and American Democracy identified a subtle…
Prisoners Are Calling. Who’s Answering?
Prisons, at the very minimum are intended as quarantine; keeping cities and towns safer by removing criminals…
Beat the Establishment
The divorce papers of Democratic lobbyist super couple Tony and Heather Podesta show that for a certain…
The Miserable Science Meets the Divine Science
On April 3–4, the Lumen Christi Institute at the University of Chicago held its sixth annual conference…
Not Just For Profit
Post-argument predictions will continue to pour out regarding Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties v. Sebelius, cases…
Implied Consent
Today, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether the Affordable Care Act’s “contraception mandate”—the requirement that…
A Terrible Ruling Against a Terrible Film
It may seem hard to get upset that the Ninth Circuit recently demanded that YouTube take down…
John Wesley and Religious Freedom
Lumping together the recently attempted Arizona religious freedom law with new criminal laws against homosexuality in Nigeria…
Talking Religious Freedom at the Center for American Progress
I am no stranger to incendiary language. Organizations on the left and the right alike use loaded…
Professor Grayson’s Crusade
J Paul Grayson, a sociology professor at York University in Toronto, received a request from a male…
Not Duffers, Won’t Drown
These stories are all about unsupervised children,” my oldest daughter observed years ago, when we were reading…
The Myth of Government Neutrality
Should a government in a pluralist society such as the United States be neutral with respect to…
A Nation of Valjeans
Jean Valjean was found guilty: The terms of the penal code were explicit. In our civilization there…
