Published Date: September 10, 2021 | Topics: Civil Rights and Liberties, Constitutional Issues, Politics and Current Affairs
By Robert P. George Let me offer a prediction, free of any face-saving hedge: Next year, the Supreme Court will hold that there is no constitutional right to elective abortions. In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case pending before the court, it will return the issue to the states for the first time in […]
Published Date: August 3, 2021 | Topics: Constitutional Issues, Politics and Current Affairs
[N.B. This article was co-authored by Robert P. George and Ryan T. Anderson.] Last month, Mississippi presented a brief to the Supreme Court arguing that our national charter, the Constitution of the United States, does not confer a right to abortion. This is irrefutably true. No such right can be found in the text of the Constitution, or […]
Today is the Muslim holy day, the Day of Arafah. The day, the second day of the Hajj or pilgrimage to Mecca, is said to be the day “on which Allah perfected His religion, completed His favours upon His beloved Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), and approved Islam as a way of life.” Pilgrims make their way to a […]
Published Date: July 1, 2021 | Topics: Civil Rights and Liberties, Constitutional Issues, Politics and Current Affairs
Lynn Fitch, the attorney general of Mississippi, faces the most consequential litigation decision of the last 50 years: whether to ask the Supreme Court to reverse Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that created a right to elective abortion, striking down abortion prohibitions that had long been in place in the states. She should do exactly that. Roe must […]
Published Date: December 3, 2020 | Topics: Politics and Current Affairs
By Robert P. George December 3, 2020 11:40 AM The poet perceived that action would follow thought As we mark the 65th anniversary of National Review, was there ever a more appropriate time to stand athwart history yelling “Stop”? We’re in the midst of a worldwide pandemic whose economic and social consequences have been as […]
Published Date: October 27, 2020 | Topics: Civil Rights and Liberties, Philosophy, Religion
Moral truths are what they are. Human beings can fail to grasp them. They can defy them even if they do grasp them—people have free will. Human beings cannot, however, change them.
Published Date: October 7, 2020 | Topics: Politics and Current Affairs
By Robert George Dear President Young: I am a professor of jurisprudence at Princeton University and a scholar who has devoted a great deal of effort to the cause of protecting academic freedom. I myself happen to be a political conservative—an outspoken one. I believe that principles of academic freedom, properly understood, equally protect members […]
Published Date: October 5, 2020 | Topics: Politics and Current Affairs, Religion
By Robert George October 5, 2020 Dear Bishop Blake, Pastor Rivers, and other esteemed clergy and Christian leaders: We are Catholic scholars who write as your brothers and sisters in the Christian faith to express our gratitude for your bold and compelling defense of Amy Coney Barrett against the bigotry directed toward her because of […]
Published Date: October 1, 2020 | Topics: Politics and Current Affairs, Religion
By Ramesh Ponnuru & Robert P. George October 1, 2020 11:19 AM A guide for the perplexed During the vice-presidential debate in 2012, Joe Biden claimed to agree with his church’s teaching on abortion but to be unwilling to impose it on other citizens. It was a statement that depended for its political effectiveness on […]