Western democratic systems are increasingly plagued by a war of individual rights that leads to a tyranny of minorities over majorities. Two centuries after Alexis de Tocqueville predicted — in ...
Some critics of originalism fault it on natural-law grounds. Their critiques are wanting. Constitutional theorists on the right are engaged in a debate about the moral foundations of originalism, the ...
On May 30, the State Department announced that it was setting up a Commission on Unalienable Rights to advise the Secretary of State, and “provide fresh thinking about human rights discourse where ...
It is apparent that Trump himself never so much as glanced at this nation’s defining document. The only more worrisome and lamentable fact is that tens of millions of Americans found this president’s ...
Natural Law and Human Rights: Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason, by Pierre Manent (University of Notre Dame Press, 149 pp., $29) Russell Kirk once described natural law as “an ethical knowledge, ...
The State Department’s Commission on Unalienable Rights, a body of some 15 academics, legal scholars, and nonprofit leaders advising Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about human rights, was announced in ...
Cicero’s understanding of natural law and friendship is a vital source of what is most admirable in modern liberalism and republicanism. His insights provide valuable reminders of those virtues ...
There is a cute meme that you may have seen. It features twins in the womb having a conversation about whether there is life outside the womb. One twin argues for the existence of Mom; the other cites ...
Constitutional theorists on the right are engaged in a debate about the moral foundations of originalism, the theory that government officials, including judges, are bound by the original meaning of ...
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