Law
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Resisting the Sovereign
The Dissent of the Governed: A Meditation on Law, Religion, and Loyalty By Stephen L. Carter Harvard…
Reclaiming Natural Law
Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law by J. Budziszewski. InterVarsity Press, 240 pages, $14.99.…
Every Sparrow that Falls
Rain Without Thunder: The Ideology of the Animal Rights Movement by Gary L. Francione Temple University Press,…
The Supreme Court 1997
To help the reader understand the background of the following commentaries, we asked Robert P. George of…
Strained Mercy
Seduced by Death: Doctors, Patients, and the Dutch Cure By Herbert Hendin. Norton, 256 pages, $27.50. Somewhere…
Reforming Education: A Whole New World
Does Money Matter? Edited by Gary Burtless. Brookings, 296 pages, $39.95. Catholic Education: Homeward Bound By Kimberly…
Assisted Suicide: No and Yes, but Mainly Yes
“Administration Asks Court to Reject Assisted Suicide,” the headlines ran after Acting Solicitor General Walter Dellinger filed…
We’re No. 144
When I came to New York eight years ago, it was a much tougher town than it…
The Real Reason for Religious Freedom
Why do we protect freedom of religion? The commonsense answer, which I think hits close to the…
Consecrating the President
This month a hundred million Americans will watch a United States Supreme Court Justice once again ask…
The End of Democracy? A Discussion Continued
Participants: William J. Bennett, Midge Decter, James C. Dobson, Mary Ann Glendon, John Leo William J. Bennett…
To Reclaim Our Democratic Heritage
The symposium on the judicial usurpation of politics has generated an intense debate about many things, as…
The End of Democracy? Our Judicial Oligarchy
This last term of the Supreme Court brought home to us with fresh clarity what it means…
Bonhoeffer and the Sovereign State
The decision to attempt the assassination of Hitler, to “cut off the head of the snake,” was…
When Rights Are Wrong
It is common in some circles to say that our legal system worries too much about rights…
