Infant Baptism and the Logic of Liberalism

by Brandon McGinley

The logic of liberalism has seeped into the faithful’s understanding of God and his Church through every imaginable pore. Continue Reading »

14 Nov 2019

The Two Minds of Progressivism

by David Azerrad

The contradictions between these two ways of looking at the world, promethean and determinist, are obvious. Either we are autonomous individuals who transcend the accidents of birth or we are members of whatever identity groups we happened to be born into. Depending on the circumstances, the Left will either deny or affirm the primacy of nature. Continue Reading »

14 Sep 2016

The Courts and the Impossibility of Autonomy

by David T. Koyzis

If individual autonomy is the jealous god it has proven itself to be, no rights of conscience or religious freedom will be permitted to stand in its way over the long term. But when does a person actually possess this autonomy to which he is said to have a right? Continue Reading »

19 Feb 2015

Rights and Wrongs About Rights

by Robert A. Licht

Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourseby Mary Ann GlendonFree Press, 288 pages, $22.95 One of the dubious achievements of American legal philosophers and academicians concerned with “rights” is to have emptied jurisprudence of the element of prudence. Constitutional . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 1992