Positive Secularism and the American Model of Religious Liberty
At its fullest, the American model of religious liberty is not a freedom from religion or a freedom of religion; it is a freedom for religion.Pope Benedict XVI has, in recent months, expressed his...
View ArticleHow the No-Establishment Rule Does (and Does Not) Protect the Freedom of...
The Constitution’s no-establishment rule does protect the liberty of religious conscience, but not in the way, or ways, that we usually think.The “freedom of conscience” is, as Prof. Steven Smith has...
View ArticleConfusion About Discrimination
Not all discrimination is wrong. While the government should regulate some forms of wrongful discrimination, other forms of discrimination lie beyond the purview of the state.Last week, “Vandy...
View ArticleSimple Justice: Kids Deserve School Choice
Rather than cave to self-interested protests against school choice from teachers unions, we should do what we can to make Catholic schools a viable school option for low-income children.The editors of...
View ArticleMary Ann Glendon and the Structure of Religious Freedom
For its protection and flourishing, religious freedom needs not only limited government but also a social order that gives plenty of room to civic institutions and associations.In 1991, Mary Ann...
View ArticleMoral Anthropology, Social Ontology, and Authentic Human Freedom
The work of the late Jean Bethke Elshtain reflects a commitment to careful, accurate, grounded descriptions of reality. To be sure, Elshtain was as deft and comfortable as a theorist ought to be with...
View ArticleSome Thoughts for New Law Students
This essay is part of our back-to-school series. See the full collection here. There is no shortage of advice, guides, warnings, and how-to’s for people preparing to study law. This fall, around 40,000...
View ArticleAbortion Laws across the Globe and at Home
During oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Chief Justice John Roberts observed that Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban mirrored restrictions that are common in all but a...
View ArticleHow the Government Is Buying Our Submission
Readers of a certain age will recall the Schoolhouse Rock cartoon shorts, which regularly interrupted networks’ kid-oriented Saturday-morning programming and served up pithy tutorials in grammar...
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