A Personal Case for Justice Amy Coney Barrett

by Richard W. Garnett

Selecting Anthony Kennedy’s replacement could turn out to be one of the current administration’s most consequential tasks. Continue Reading »

4 Jul 2018

The Diversity Nominee

by Robert P. George

A Barrett nomination would drive a stake through the heart of what has aptly been described as “the last acceptable prejudice among American elites.” Continue Reading »

3 Jul 2018

A Note on the Kentucky Decision

by Mark Bauerlein

The real issue at stake in Kentucky's religious liberty kerfuffle is not discrimination, but belief—a belief that will not bow to sexual progressivism. Continue Reading »

22 May 2017

A Day in Court

by The Editors

The First Things Podcast, Episode 13. Also featuring Confucius at Princeton. Continue Reading »

24 Oct 2016

The Ten Commandments in the Courthouse

by Mark Movsesian

Displaying the Ten Commandments in American courthouses has become quite controversial. So why has no one objected in Queens, the most ethnically and religiously diverse place in the United States? Continue Reading »

18 Jul 2016

Inescapably Natural

by Hadley Arkes

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes gave voice to the “modern” project in law: It would be a gain, he said, “if every word of moral significance could be banished from the law altogether, and other words adopted which should convey legal ideas uncolored by anything outside the law.” The law would . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2016

Waco: A Massacre
and Its Aftermath

by Dean M. Kelley

Back in the late 1920s the finger of God touched Victor Houteff, and he left the Orthodox Church of Bulgaria to join the Seventh-day Adventists. In 1929 he moved to California, where, though not approved by the main body of Seventh-day Adventism, he gained a following with his preaching. He and his . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 1995