The Catholic Church’s Accountability and Autonomy
Editor’s Note: This is part of a Law and Liberty Symposium on the crisis in the Catholic Church. For at least a dozen years, I have tried to make the case, in academic and other contexts, that the...
View ArticleReligious Schools and the Freedom of the Church
In a pair of cases involving the religious-freedom rights of parochial schools, the Supreme Court on Wednesday re-affirmed a core First Amendment rule and a crucial aspect of church-state separation,...
View ArticleRehnquist’s Reservations and the Future of Roe
In 1973, the Supreme Court of the United States found, within the Constitution’s “guarantee of certain areas or zones of privacy,” a sweeping, near-absolute right to abortion. It has long been argued...
View ArticleWhy Liberalism and Constitutionalism Need Christianity
Liberalism and constitutionalism need Christianity. This is a provocative thesis, and one that challenges many current narratives. In what sense can this be true? There is no point in attempting here...
View ArticleTrue Campus Diversity
Higher education in America, it is often observed, confronts serious challenges, even crises. True, many of the world’s leading research institutions are in the United States. And yet: Tuition-costs...
View ArticleRefreshing Unity on Religious Liberty
The high-profile Supreme Court decisions announced each year in late June tend to reinforce a narrative—one that, to be clear, is false—that the Court’s justices are merely partisan actors and that...
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