Science, Philosophy, and God
An understanding of the transcendence of creation forms the essential foundation of natural science. But does that understanding require revelation?
Justice Brandeis and the Birth of Liberal Judicial Activism
The roots of today’s judicial activism stretch back one hundred years to the appointment of controversial Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, a champion of “sociological jurisprudence.”
Corporate Personhood and Individual Rights: A Reply to S. Adam Seagrave
The truth that human beings possess a natural personhood and natural rights is not incompatible with the idea of corporate personhood and rights that exist not by nature but by convention.
Goodnight, Vienna: What’s Wrong with Saying That Corporations Are People
Corporations, and civic associations in general, are necessary bulwarks between governmental power and individual citizens—but they’re not people. Now more than ever, we must recover a clear understanding of what it means to be a human person with inherent dignity and natural rights.
Don’t Eliminate the Filibuster–Restore and Reform It
With a simple change, the Senate can restore its republican bona fides, give minority points of view an audible voice, greatly reduce the number of filibusters, make incremental gains in the passage of bills important to the majority, and improve the quality of debate.
The Living Constitution Revisited
Justice William Brennan’s vision of a living constitution continues to dominate contemporary constitutional interpretation, in spite of its troubling inconsistencies.
The UN’s Push for “Same-Sex Marriage”
In direct opposition to international law, both the central UN bureaucracy and individual Member States are aggressively promoting same-sex marriage worldwide.
The Family and the Force
The destruction of the Jedi order was due, in large part, to their persistent blindness to the deep, essential, and ineradicable power of familial love. The Skywalkers can bring balance to the Force because they unite it with love learned through family.
Four Score and Seven Years Later: Reflections on Martin Luther King Jr.
Today we are called to reflect anew on the vision and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., not in mere deference to ceremonial custom or civic piety but instead as Lincoln reflected on the Founders, mindful of the crisis of the times.
Life, Liberty, and Modern Bioethics: A Reply to Cooper and Nuckols
In its zeal to deal with suffering, modern bioethics fails to account for the rights of the sufferer. There is no law that can legitimize taking a life too soon.
Balancing the Rights of Patients and Doctors: Another Perspective on a Tragic Case
When assessing the case of Christopher Dunn, in which some key details remain hazy, we ought to give his physicians and hospital ethics committee the benefit of the doubt.
Transgenderism Has No Basis in Science or Law
In a domain in which the proposed “therapies” are so drastic, it is not too much to ask for a solid, evidence-based statement of who is being treated, for what, and why, before writing a prescription or passing a law.
Conscience, Obamacare Mandates, and Sex-Reassignment Therapies
No American should be forced to violate his or her moral and religious beliefs, especially when it comes to morally fraught issues in health care.
Liberty and SOGI Laws: An Impossible and Unsustainable “Compromise”
Big Business and Big Law are using Big Government to impose their cultural values on small businesses and ordinary Americans. Indiana does not need to create new laws on sexual orientation or gender identity for people who identify as sexual minorities to be treated justly. The best way to protect all Hoosiers is for Indiana not to adopt a SOGI policy at all.
A Conservative’s Odyssey: Russell Kirk and Twentieth-Century American Conservatism
Bradley J. Birzer’s intellectual biography of the twentieth-century conservative thinker Russell Kirk highlights the complexities of the American conservative movement and its ongoing challenges.
A Tragic Case of Modern Bioethics: Denying Life-Sustaining Treatment to a Patient Who Wanted to Live
In deciding to withdraw life-sustaining treatment from an alert and cognizant patient who was pleading for his life, a Texas hospital’s ethics committee stole from him the two most fundamental rights enumerated in our Constitution: life and liberty.
Immigration, Citizenship, and Cosmopolitanism
Traditions, duties, and ideals cannot exist without attachment to particular communities—a man can love his neighbors or his nation, but he cannot love an abstraction like humanity.
The Danish Girl: People Aren’t Born Transgender, But Playing Dress-Up Can Spark Psychological Problems
A recent film accurately portrays the deep emotional and psychological problems that transgender people experience, but it fails to address the reality of life after sex reassignment surgery and the need to treat comorbid psychological disorders.
