Law
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Metaphysics Matters
In Defense of Natural Lawby robert p. georgeclarendon/oxford university press, 343 pages, $65 In his influential book The…
The Bus Stops Here
It’s a sad but unavoidable question: Where did the civil rights movement go wrong? A cause that,…
Justice Thomas and Liberal Originalism
First Principles: The Jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas.By Scott Douglas Gerber.New York University Press. 201 pp. $30. It…
Free to Die
“Manslaughter, I could understand how they would arrive at that. But murder? This? They must have been…
Awakening at Littleton
On April 20th, at around 11:30 in the morning, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine…
Talking Straight
Homosexuality and American Public Life.Edited by Christopher Wolfe.Introduction by William Kristol.Spence. 320 pp. $29.95 Among activists who…
Suicide Pays
It is the unfortunate nature of man that financial imperatives often supersede important moral and ethical principles.…
Thomas More for Our Season
The continuing contemporary interest in Thomas More (1478–1535) is hardly to be accounted for by popular fascination…
Nature and Law and Gift
Natural Law in Judaism. by David Novak. Cambridge University Press. 210 pp $54.95. I At first…
“Saving” the Poor
The poor will always be with us. Yet, pace Cain, we have an obligation to look after…
The Future of the End of Democracy
If you want to know why the United States is in a constitutional crisis, a good place…
How the Court Became Supreme
The past half-century has witnessed the rise to prominence of a constitutional theory that gives the U.S.…
The Supreme Court in 1998
When the Supreme Court packs up its bags at the end of June each year, court watchers…
Neocons vs. Theocons, Again
In November 1996, a First Things symposium on American democracy and the court raised a furor among…
The New Populism
The Great Betrayal by patrick j. buchanan little, brown. 384 pp. $22.95 Readers of a certain age…
