Recently, I had a chance to revisit C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters. Doing so permitted me to appreciate once again Lewis’s considerable virtues. It also reminded…
Speaker Boehner has invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address the Congress of the United States. This has made the White House pretty upset, which…
Over at the Washington Post, law professor (and non-religious believer) Eugene Volokh offers a lengthy post with a kind of argument for religious exemptions to certain…
Last week Pope Francis encountered some criticism for suggesting that there are limits to freedom of speech. His comments were made in the wake of the…
Catholic legal theorist Robert P. George of Princeton University has a characteristically clear, compelling, and helpful article at the Philadelphia Inquirer website on the social costs…
Over at Public Discourse, I have a review of Michael and Catherine Zuckert’s excellent new book on Leo Strauss, the German-American teacher of political philosophy whose…