Aristotle Can’t Refute Evolution: A Response to Seagrave
While evolutionary theory shows us that we can’t divide living things into stable, distinct species, this doesn’t mean that it imperils the foundations of knowledge.
With Malice Toward Some
Lincoln’s Order of Retaliation—a command to kill Confederate prisoners as punishment for the South’s massacre of black Union soldiers—can help frame our view of presidential military power today.
My Isl@m’s Quest for Truth
A young Muslim author learns to seek the truth about God through questioning instead of blind faith.
The “Mystery of Life” Makes Law a Mystery
Since our culture has embraced Justice Kennedy’s “mystery of life” philosophy, we lack a coherent framework for making laws that don’t just cater to personal preferences.
Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Employment Law
The Employment Non-Discrimination Act would equate sexual orientation and gender identity, ambiguous and malleable concepts, with immutable features like race, color, and ethnicity as classes worthy of special legal protection.
What Is Religious Freedom?
In its fullest and most robust sense, religion is the human person’s being in right relation to the divine. All of us have a duty, in conscience, to seek the truth and to honor the freedom of all men and women everywhere to do the same.
Mary 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.
The Legal Circus That Killed Proposition 8
The process that killed Prop 8 in California should concern anyone who cares about democracy and the rule of law. The cheaters won.
A Lincoln for Our Times
In his new book on Abraham Lincoln, Rich Lowry depicts our famous president as a lover of freedom, commerce, and progress whom we revere on the same plane as the founders because he, like them, articulated enduring principles that we still value.
First New England, Then the Nation: The Spread of Physician-Assisted Suicide
The expansion of physician-assisted suicide from the West to the East coast makes its legalization in other neighboring states much more likely.
The DOMA Decision and the Inscrutable Anthony Kennedy
When Justice Anthony Kennedy writes a majority opinion for the Supreme Court, he is famous for baffling his fellow justices (particularly Justice Antonin Scalia) as well as lower court judges.
A Brief History of Sex Ed: How We Reached Today’s Madness
Today’s sex ed curricula are based on the widely-accepted teachings of depraved human beings.
The New York Times, Church-State Law, and Equality
Prohibiting religious schools from using public facilities would not protect religious freedom; it would encourage further discrimination against religion and religious people.
Without Words to Describe
Those of us who value life over death, vibrant religious exercise, and the good of natural marriage need to find our voice again even though the powers-that-be are redefining words arbitrarily and avoiding reason.
The Ongoing Culture War: A Report from the Texan Frontlines
The abortion fight in Texas is a flashpoint in the culture war. But it need not be another skirmish in which the casualty is civility and reason. It is rather an opportunity for pro-lifers to seize the high ground of decorum and reasonableness.
How Will Future Historians Treat Same-Sex Marriage?
Future historians will probably marvel that LGBT activists—a small, well-organized, and wealthy segment of the population—successfully deployed civil rights language for material benefit, especially at a time when national economic inequality only continues to worsen.
The Constitutionality of Protecting Unborn Babies at 20 Weeks
There is nothing in the text, history, or tradition of the U.S. Constitution that precludes extending the most basic protections of the law to twenty week-old (or older) unborn children who are capable of experiencing pain. Adapted from testimony delivered on July 8th before the Texas State Senate Committee on Health and Human Services.
Same-Sex Parenting: Child Abuse?
Single-parenting and divorce have always been understood as a breakdown of the married mom and dad ideal, but the demand to view same-sex parenting as “normal” imposes a silence on children about the wound caused by the loss of one parent or the other.
Marriage, the Court, and the Erosion of Constitutional Democracy
What future does democratic self-government have in our country if same-sex marriage supporters are willing to undermine it through the courts?
The Declaration of Independence and the American Creed
The Declaration of Independence contains the clearest, most concise, and most eloquent articulation of the American creed: a political definition of man in two axioms, and three corollary propositions on government.
Abraham Lincoln, the Supreme Court, and the Defense of Marriage Act
Just as Lincoln rejected the Supreme Court’s reasoning in the Dred Scott decision, so too conservative leaders need to reject the Court’s faulty reasoning about DOMA. Anti-democratic judicial activism has become habitual only because our elected leaders have declined to respond to it with Lincoln’s clarity and firmness.
