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The NYT on the importance of funding constitutional rights

Posted on January 31, 2011
The New York Times, not surprisingly, opposes those "House Republicans [who] are preparing to push through restrictions on federal financing of abortions far more extreme than previously proposed at the federal level." According to the Times, there is something ...

Kristof on Bishop Olmstead

Posted on January 31, 2011
NYT columnist Nicholas Kristof has, more than a few times, waded into what seem to me to be intra-Catholic matters about which he has not much knowledge or standing. In my view, he's doing it again. Now, I understand that...

"Varieties of Religion Today: William James Revisited"

Posted on January 30, 2011
Over the weekend I've been reading around a very slim book by Charles Taylor based on a lecture series connected with his Gifford Lecture in 1999 (the book was published in 2002 under the title above). Taylor marks the occasion...

A Tale of Two Governors

Posted on January 30, 2011
Jody Bottum has written what is to my mind the most powerful commentary yet to appear on the indictment and coming prosecution of Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell. http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/live-and-die-philadelphia_537628.html?nopager=1 Having carefully gone through the lengthy grand jury report, Jody notes the...

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Brian Leiter on the Law of Religious Liberty

Posted on January 28, 2011
Prof. Brian Leiter (Chicago) has posted this item regarding his current project: This (relatively early) draft essay is available on SSRN for readers who might be interested; the abstract: This is a draft of the final chapter of my forthcoming...

John Allen on the "priority" of religious freedom

Posted on January 28, 2011
Here (thanks to a friend) is an as-per-usual interesting essay by John Allen, in which he explains (among other things) that and why "[r]eligious freedom is destined to be the towering diplomatic and political priority of the Vatican and the...

A personal note on Pepperdine

Posted on January 28, 2011
A number of friends have inquired about published reports that I was interviewed for the position of Dean of the Law School at Pepperdine University. In response to an invitation from the University to be considered for the position, I...

"Abortion, Reason, and Science"

Posted on January 28, 2011
"Abortion, Reason, and Science" is the name of this essay, by David Harsanyi, published at the Reason (a libertarian magazine) website. (My advice, for what it's worth, is that one resist any temptation to read the comments.) He says: How...

The Pain of the Death Penalty

Posted on January 27, 2011
This story describes how accused murderer Jared Loughner seems to have conducted at least some research on the Internet (through Google) about the physical pain of lethal injection. What, if anything, can we draw from this fact? Can this be...

Pristine and Polluted Retributivism

Posted on January 27, 2011
On Tuesday I was lucky to participate in a gathering of criminal law theory nuts at Brooklyn law school to discuss a couple of interesting papers in punishment theory. At one point in the discussion, the issue arose as to...

Best protest sign ever

Posted on January 27, 2011
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John Garvey's Inaugural Address at CUA

Posted on January 26, 2011
The inaugural address of my friend, mentor, and former colleague John Garvey -- now President of the Catholic University of America -- is here. A bit, from the concluding section: What is the particular contribution a Catholic university makes to...

Lincoln's Biblical Imagery

Posted on January 26, 2011
Wilson Huhn has posted A Higher Law: Abraham Lincoln's Use of Biblical Imagery. (HT: Solum) The abstract: This article describes Lincoln?s use of biblical imagery in seven of his works: the Peoria Address, the House Divided Speech, his Address at...

The March for Life

Posted on January 25, 2011
Yesterday several hundred thousand Americans Marched for Life in Washington, DC to mark the 38th anniversary of the Supreme Court's tragic rulings in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton. I attended the March with a delegation of Princeton students...

The Gosnell grand-jury report

Posted on January 25, 2011
Is here. The news reports (that I've read, anyway) do not capture the horror. (HT: Mollie Wilson O'Reilly, at Commonweal, who also links to this worth-reading piece by Melinda Henneberger.) Here are the opening paragraphs of the Report: This case...

The consequences of divorce

Posted on January 25, 2011
The impact on kids is not just about economic hardship, and boys fare even worse than girls do, according to this new study.

Equality + Liberty = Dignity?

Posted on January 25, 2011
Kenji Yoshino has an article in the new Harvard Law Review that looks to be worth reading titled "The New Equal Protection," in part because of his claims about how dignity can be reflected in constitutional rights beyond the traditional...

City of Man

Posted on January 25, 2011
I didn't know about this new book until Mark Noll wrote it up in Books & Culture, but it looks promising -- City of Man by Michael Gerson and Peter Wehner. According to Noll: [T]he authors write realistically about what...

How do MTV execs sleep at night?

Posted on January 25, 2011
I promise not to keep beating this particular drum, but I can't help but flag what I see as the most persuasive indictment of the deplorable MTV show "Skins" yet. When I criticize the show as dangerously unrealistic, I am...

Obama on . . . um . . . what shall we call it? Oh yes, let's say "reproductive choice"

Posted on January 24, 2011
It is hard to say what was worst about President Obama's statement on the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Was it his silence on the plight of the tiny victim whose limbs are torn off, or whose skin is...

Garnett at the University of Virginia on "Positive Secularism"

Posted on January 24, 2011
An update from the shamelessness desk: On February 4, I'll be giving a lecture at the University of Virginia's St. Anselm Institute called "Positive Secularism: Understanding the Separation of Church and State." More here, and here: Prof. Garnett's public lecture...

Proximity and Political Community

Posted on January 24, 2011
Jeremy Waldron's new paper, The Principle of Proximity, might be of interest to MoJers. He argues that physical proximity should be the basis of political community, rather than other shared cultural or historical attributes. I haven't read the paper, but...

US Bishops to review implementation of Ex Corde

Posted on January 22, 2011
The US Bishops just announced a review of the implementation of Ex Corde Ecclesiae. Here. Ex Corde was promulgated in 1990 and then a mere 11 years later the "Application" became effective in the United States. The review will involve...

"Retributivism: Essays on Theory and Policy"

Posted on January 22, 2011
Here's the Amazon page for a volume on retribution (edited by the generous Mark White) in criminal law that can be enjoyed by the voracious consumer of criminal theory and the curious dilettante alike. And here's the Oxford page --...

The Moral "Meaning" of Literature: Or Of Oil and Water

Posted on January 22, 2011
The New York Times has a review of this unusual book by philosophers Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly, in which the argument seems to be made (I have not read the book entirely, only in fragments) that reading some...

Lest we forget...

Posted on January 22, 2011
Lest we forget, today is the thirty-eighth anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Many Americans?as well as others?will commemorate in some fashion this landmark decision. Some will celebrate, but others will mourn. I find myself in the latter category. Why? First...

A lesson from Philadelphia

Posted on January 21, 2011
Rick has called our attention to the case of Philadelphia abortionist Dr. Kermit Gosnell, who has been arrested and is facing prosecution for the murder of babies whom he delivered during the sixth, seventh, and eighth months of pregnancy then...

On not "getting" Sargent Shriver

Posted on January 20, 2011
A good post from the Get Religion blog on the unfortunate habit of those who write admiringly of Sargent Shriver to neglect his pro-life commitments. Ross Douthat, in his 2009 op-ed, "A Different Kind of Liberal", made a similar point...

The horror in Philadelphia

Posted on January 20, 2011
I have started several times writing a post about the horrifying recent reports coming from Philadelphia about "[a] filthy abortion mill where prosecutors say babies were delivered alive and killed with scissors". In its report, the grand jury said failures...

Unfortunate and Ominous

Posted on January 20, 2011
Professor George a few days ago rightly praised the Egyptian Muslims who protected Christians in Egypt from acts of terrible persecution. But this story reports the unfortunate decision of the highest Islamic authority in Egypt, al-Azhar, to "freeze all dialogue...

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