David T. Koyzis

Apart from office, there is no obligation to obey another person. There is no natural right for one person to rule over someone else. Only office , and not the mere possession of power, can confer authority. Continue Reading »

Last week marked the fortieth anniversary of Roe vs. Wade . In the absence of a consensus favoring legal protection of the unborn, what are the alternatives available to us in the short term? In my most recent Capital Commentary piece , I make four suggestions: First, we always do well to assume . . . . Continue Reading »

Today, of all days, this video from the Susan B. Anthony List is well worth viewing: . . . . Continue Reading »

Some of us may have missed it, but President Obama declared yesterday Religious Freedom Day in the United States. Here is an excerpt from the presidential proclamation on the White House’s website: Today, we also remember that religious liberty is not just an American right; it is a universal . . . . Continue Reading »

This is almost worth crossing the pond to see: John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice: The Musical . In order to draw inspiration for his magnum opus, John Rawls travels back through time to converse (in song) with a selection of political philosophers, including Plato, Locke, Rousseau and Mill. . . . . Continue Reading »

The Guardian ‘s Rupert Shortt reminds readers that Christianity is by no means foreign to the Middle East, where  the Arab spring has given way to a Christian winter . The line about the American general meeting the Arab Christian isn’t as familiar as it should be. “When did . . . . Continue Reading »

Andrew Norman Wilson, better known by his initials, A. N. Wilson, is an on-again, off-again atheist who has written books on C. S. Lewis, Leo Tolstoy, the Victorians, and many other subjects. At the beginning of a new year, the Daily Mail has published Wilson’s retrospective on the sexual . . . . Continue Reading »

For many years now I’ve been teaching my students that a constitution is more than a scrap of paper but is to be found in the deeper principles and commitments of a particular political community. Here in Canada in recent decades we have embraced the notion that our constitution is identical . . . . Continue Reading »

It is generally believed that the birth of Christ is celebrated on December 25 because our savvy Christian forebears with a flare for marketing took over a winter solstice holiday from the surrounding pagans. Not so, apparently. Here is William J. Tighe on Calculating Christmas and Andrew McGowan . . . . Continue Reading »

Yesterday’s tragedy in Connecticut, like other similar tragedies before it, calls to mind a widespread and persistent tendency to assume that we can prevent every “avoidable” tragedy by passing yet another law. Sad to say, no law will effectively deter every possible crime in . . . . Continue Reading »