Law
A selection of recent articles on this topic
“Wittenberg” in Synodal Slow Motion
As Yale’s Carlos Eire masterfully demonstrated in Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450–1650, there was no one…
The First Commandment of Fiction
What insults my soul,” Zadie Smith confessed last year in The New York Review of Books, “is…
China’s Second Cultural Revolution
China’s Cultural Revolution (1966–76) occupies a place high in the annals of human savagery. Mao Zedong’s purges…
The Martini Curve Revisited
Pope Francis concluded his pre-Christmas address to the Roman Curia by invoking the memory of Cardinal Carlo…
The Ecstasy of the Mob
In his review of the 1946 French film Panique, critic Bilge Ebiri observes that mob behavior is…
Leaders Who Can’t Lead
In my forty years as a student and teacher in higher education, I have seen the humanities,…
Let’s Fix the Pornography Problem
In 2016, Donald Trump made one of the most important promises of his campaign: Elect me, and I will…
Against the “Fairness For All” Act
The “Fairness for All” Act (FFA), introduced December 6 by Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT), claims to arrive…
“Fairness For All” Is Unfair
I recently gave a presentation on transgenderism to a group of suburban Minnesotans. After my talk, an…
Porn Is Not a Blessing of Liberty
Last week, four Republican congressmen sent a missive to U.S. Attorney General William Barr. This one-page letter…
An Anthem for Postliberals
At my home church in Birmingham, Alabama, and in churches I visit across the country, I often…
A Last Chance for Australian Justice
My late parents loved Cardinal George Pell, whom they knew for decades. So I found it a…
Is China a Model of the Common Good?
In 2018, Archbishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, said in an…
Title IX Trouble for Fuller Seminary
Fuller Theological Seminary is facing a Title IX lawsuit from a former student, whom Fuller had expelled…
Gay Rights and the Civil Rights Act
The Wall Street Journal gets things exactly wrong in a recent editorial about two important cases before…
