Published Date: September 11, 2022 | Topics: Politics and Current Affairs
Recently on his “Uncommon Knowledge” broadcast, Peter Robinson of the Hoover Institution at Stanford interviewed Matthew Continetti, author of a fine new book on American conservatism, and Christopher DeMuth, a distinguished public policy scholar and former president of the American Enterprise Institute. Toward the end of the conversation, Robinson asked his guests why America’s Big […]
Published Date: August 31, 2022 | Topics: Civil Rights and Liberties, Constitutional Issues
In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court held that there is no right to abortion implicitly protected by the due process clause of the 14th Amendment or any other provision of the Constitution, thereby overturning Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. In a concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas said the […]
When a new religion or ideology sweeps through a culture, and especially when that religion or ideology becomes fashionable among elites as the ideology of expressive individualism has become in the United States, people react in various ways. Those who have already abandoned the old religion or religions, or whose allegiance to them is merely […]
Published Date: June 28, 2022 | Topics: Natural Law, Philosophy
A handful of books made a deep impression on me when I was a student at Harvard Law School in the late 1970s and early 1980s. One was The Concept of Law, by the great Oxford legal philosopher H. L. A. Hart. I first encountered it in a jurisprudence course taught by Charles Fried, then again […]
Published Date: June 10, 2022 | Topics: Civil Rights and Liberties, Politics and Current Affairs
My longtime Princeton University colleague Joshua Katz, a distinguished classicist and linguistics scholar, was recently dismissed from his tenured position by Princeton in a case that has received international attention. I was Professor Katz’s official Adviser in Princeton’s disciplinary system through the course of the entire four-year long ordeal that resulted in his dismissal. In that capacity, […]
Published Date: June 2, 2022 | Topics: Civil Rights and Liberties, Constitutional Issues, Politics and Current Affairs
If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, it will be an enormous achievement — and a necessary first step toward obtaining justice for vulnerable unborn members of the human family. But when blue states proceed to enact legislation to permit abortion to the very point of birth, it will be the duty of Congress to enforce constitutional […]
Published Date: May 9, 2022 | Topics: Civil Rights and Liberties, Constitutional Issues
Due to a leak in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case challenging Mississippi’s prohibition of elective abortions after 15 weeks’ gestation, we now know that the Supreme Court stands poised to overturn Roe v. Wade and its follow-up case, Planned Parenthood v. Casey. But Chief Justice Roberts has reportedly not joined the opinion, and some speculate that he might try […]
Published Date: May 3, 2022 | Topics: Civil Rights and Liberties, Constitutional Issues
By Robert. P George On January 22, 1973, I was a high school student working a pro-life information table at the West Virginia University student center when we heard about the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade. I recall the horror of learning that the Court had crushed the basic rights of an entire class […]
Published Date: January 4, 2022 | Topics: Civil Rights and Liberties, Constitutional Issues, Politics and Current Affairs
[This article was co-authored by Robert P. George and Christopher Kaczor.] In Roe v. Wade seven members of the Supreme Court of the United States imposed their moral belief that women have a right to abortion on the American people. Most jurists and constitutional scholars recognize that the decision lacked any basis in the text, logic, structure or original […]
Published Date: November 11, 2021 | Topics: Constitutional Issues, Politics and Current Affairs
By Matthew J. Franck & Robert P. George November 11, 2021 10:51 AM The justices’ duty is clear In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the state of Mississippi has directly confronted the Supreme Court with an argument that, believe it or not, no state has pressed since Pennsylvania did so 29 years ago in […]