Law
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Moral Fragility of Constitutionalism
America’s Constitutional Soul by harvey c. mansfield, jr. johns hopkins university press, 236 pages, $32 In this…
Getting Grover’s Goat
Herbert Grover is the increasingly visible state superintendent of public instruction for Wisconsin and a man determined…
Presbyterians: Where Have All the People Gone?
The Venerable” is not a title used among Presbyterians, but it fits few people better than John…
Tradition and Creativity in Culture and Law
A well-known account of creativity sets the scene for a celebrated act of creation, and a bleak…
The New Class Reconsidered
Hidden Technocrats: The New Class and the New Capitalism edited by hansfried kellner and frank w. heuberger…
Editorial: Abortion and a Nation at War
Surely, one may devoutly hope, Justice Scalia exaggerates. In his dissent from Planned Parenthood v. Casey (joined…
Getting Rid of the Vegetables
The other day, I cleaned out the vegetable bin in my refrigerator. Some leaves of the head…
Two Paths to Black Power
The process of nominating and confirming Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court served to underline the debate…
A Common Enemy, A Common Cause
On June 24, 1992 the Supreme Court handed down Lee v. Weisman, a decision that declares officially…
Statement on Church and State
June 17, 1948 Recent decisions of the Supreme Court have extended the meaning of the constitutional prohibition…
Why Pluralism Needs Monism
“Vatican II,” George Weigel writes in Freedom and Its Discontents, “posed a basic challenge to the many…
Evangelicals and Economic Development
Earlier this year I was in charge of “debriefing” a small group of evangelical college students who…
The Pope, the Emperor, and the First Amendment
Every year during the winter quarter my yearlong course in the history of Christianity reaches the eleventh-century…
Church-State Conundrums
Original Intent: Chief Justice Rehnquist and the Course of American Church/State Relations by derek davis prometheus books,…
What Americans Really Think About Abortion
At the foundation of any democratic society is the principle that the laws that order our lives…
