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 ...

"Liberty is something you achieve. It is not an automatic given," philosopher Peter Kreeft told a Salomon 001 audience Friday afternoon during the Brown-Rhode Island School of Design Catholic ...

Observant Jews point to the Law of Moses, practicing Muslims point to the Quran (or Koran), and faithful Christians point to the Bible, both Old and New Testament, as the foundation of and authority ...

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" ...

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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 ...

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, ...

When I was in college, an art history professor at my school transitioned. This was in the late 1970s, so one might think that this was a big deal for everyone on campus. It turned out not to be. The ...

Americans are increasingly looking to the law as the moral arbiter for our times. High-profile court cases on gay marriage, affirmative action, and the death penalty highlight the trend. But so do ...

In 1885, Nietzsche’s sister Elisabeth married Bernhard Förster, a high school teacher turned German nationalist and rabid ...

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