As I discuss philosophical questions with my high school students, I find that they tend to gravitate toward ethical dilemmas and “What-would-you-do-in-this-situation” type conversations. It is ...

As we recently celebrated the Fourth of July, I have been engaging in the rich and fruitful exercise of re-reading the Declaration of Independence. This reading has brought some important things to ...

Natural Law and Human Rights: Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason, by Pierre Manent (University of Notre Dame Press, 149 pp., $29) Russell Kirk once described natural law as “an ethical knowledge, ...

It's been a good week for natural law. People are talking about it even if they do not mention it by name. David Brooks, at the Aspen Ideas Festival, spoke about the pattern of "rupture and repair" ...

On May 30, the State Department announced that it was setting up a Commission on Unalienable Rights to advise the Secretary of State, and “provide fresh thinking about human rights discourse where ...

Constitutional theorists on the right are engaged in a debate about the moral foundations of originalism, the theory that government officials, including judges, are bound by the original meaning of ...

Philippine Bishop Broderick Pabaillo, left, leads a prayer after celebrating Mass with human rights advocates condemning extra judicial killings, at the Redemptorist Church in Manila in this Aug. 10, ...

Over the last several months we have been eager to explore the shared common ground existing between Christian believers and unbelievers. Those aspects of nature, and life, and history from which two ...

Until a half century ago or so, there was a moral consensus, however fraying, that informed and shaped the exercise of freedom in the Western world. The self-determination of human beings, of citizens ...

The U.K.’s About-Face on Puberty Blockers for Children Creedalism Needs Culture In Defense of Strip Malls Remembering John Simon Audio By Carbonatix Is originalism a morally empty jurisprudence? For ...