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Catholic Teaching on Jews and Judaism

Published Date: December 6, 2022 | Topics: Religion

One of the great stains on the history of the Catholic Church is the contempt—and sometimes worse—that some Catholics, including some leaders of the Church, have over the centuries expressed for Jews and Judaism. Catholics were never required as a matter of doctrine to hold anti-Jewish attitudes or support, much less participate in, the persecution […]

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Perspective: How universities can restore academic freedom and free speech

Published Date: November 27, 2022 | Topics: Civil Rights and Liberties, Politics and Current Affairs

America is blessed with two broad categories of universities: religiously affiliated and non-sectarian. Both make important contributions to the education of America’s young people. All public universities and many private universities — including Princeton University, where I teach — are non-sectarian. Their primary mission is not to promote a particular set of doctrines. It is […]

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Can a politician successfully re-flip? The case of Tulsi Gabbard

Published Date: October 17, 2022 | Topics: Civil Rights and Liberties, Politics and Current Affairs

As I’ve been predicting on social media for nearly two years, former Congresswoman and Democratic presidential aspirant Tulsi Gabbard has, to great fanfare, announced that she is leaving the Democratic Party. I expect her to win herself a second news cycle sometime after the mid-term election by announcing that she is joining the Republican Party. […]

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Princeton Prof. Robert George: 7 Ways Fathers Can Raise Good Children by Holy Example

Published Date: October 17, 2022 | Topics: Religion

Young men who are or will soon be fathers: The thing to remember is that your children, especially your sons, will care deeply about how you regard them and will be watching everything you do. First, love your wives, serve them with strength and humility, and be attentive, affectionate, and faithful to them. Your kids will […]

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Commencement Watch 2022

Published Date: October 9, 2022 | Topics: Politics and Current Affairs

At the twenty-five US News top-ranked research universities and the twenty-five US News top-ranked liberal arts colleges this past spring, many graduation speakers delivered remarks, and many honorary degrees were conferred. Not all the speakers and degree recipients had easily discoverable political or ideological profiles. But many did. Not a single one was a conservative. That’s right. Not one. […]

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What Big Tech companies — and all of us — owe America

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 […]

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Perspective: The tables can still be turned on the marriage debate

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 […]

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Perspective: Performing the rituals of a religion does not make you a member of that faith

Published Date: June 30, 2022 | Topics: Religion

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 […]

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Joseph Raz: Philosopher of Freedom

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 […]

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Free Speech and Due Process at Princeton: The Case of Joshua Katz

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, […]

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James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions

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