Law
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JB: 11.21.05 Reading by Osmosis…
Reading by Osmosis You know ¯ My sister osmoted The Mill on the Floss , a marvelous…
“I’ve been looking for…
“I’ve been looking for something not to like,” a reader writes, “and now I’ve found it. You’re…
Harriet Miers continues to…
Harriet Miers continues to be pilloried by numerous conservatives, and some of them are being quite nasty…
An Indifferent Reconciliation
Is the Reformation Over? An Evangelical Assessment of Contemporary Roman Catholicism by Mark A. Noll Baker Academic.…
Letter from Ty’r Glyn
I write to you from Wales, my last address, confirmed now in the idleness which age and…
Briefly Noted 25
Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History 1585-1828. By Walter A. McDougall. HarperCollins. 638 pp.…
The Supreme Court Rules: 2004
The Supreme Court Rules: 2004 by Michael M. Uhlmann For those old enough to remember the way…
Conciliating Hatred
These days, if you announce that the Supreme Court is doing politics rather than law you will…
Publick Religion: Adams v. Jefferson
The civic catechisms of our day still celebrate Thomas Jefferson’s experiment in religious liberty. To end a…
The Enemies of Religious Liberty
It is common for religious believers to lament the Supreme Court’s barely concealed hostility to the free…
Wounds Not Healed by Time: The Power of Repentance and Forgiveness
Jews are taught early that the atonement of Yom Kippur must be preceded by the effort to…
Lincoln on Judicial Despotism
After the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education ordering the desegregation of…
Constitutional Persons: An Exchange on Abortion
Readers of First Things should by now be well-acquainted with the heated national debate—in part inspired by…
Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.
I know it is a fact, but it is nonetheless hard to picture: Had he lived, Martin…
Pulpit Economics
In debates between Christian theologians and economists over the nature of capitalism, facts and figures count for…
