Individual Rights, Collective Interests, Public Law, and American Politics

Published Date: August 1, 1989 | Topics: Civil Rights and Liberties, Constitutional Issues, Natural Law, Philosophy, Politics and Current Affairs

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Could America Survive without Religion?

Published Date: November 19, 2015 | Topics: Constitutional Issues, Politics and Current Affairs, Religion

November 19, 2015 By Robert P. George Can freedom survive in a society in which most citizens believe that human beings, who are supposed to have inalienable rights, are merely material beings inhabiting a universe of purely material and efficient causality? John Adams famously said that our Constitution was made “only for a moral and […]

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When Life Begins

Published Date: November 2, 2008 | Topics: Philosophy, Politics and Current Affairs

Will politics trump science? When does the life of a human individual begin? Although the question is of obvious importance for our public policy debates over abortion and embryonic-stem-cell research, politicians have avoided it like the plague. Of late, though, things seem to be changing. Recently some of our nation’s most prominent political leaders, from […]

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