No Victory for
Religious Liberty

by Darel E. Paul

The Masterpiece Cakeshop decision is not a win for religious liberty in America. Continue Reading »

5 Jun 2018

You Can Say That

by Mark Bauerlein

While I was talking with our longtime contributor Hadley Arkes this month, he quoted a statement that I haven’t been able to get out of my head: “One man’s vulgarity is another’s lyric.” It’s a simple maxim, easy to remember, with balance and brevity plus the air of a schoolmarm’s . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2017

Passion for Equality

by Mark Movsesian

Fear of hurt feelings may be the biggest driver of public opinion on sexuality-related court decisions. Continue Reading »

10 Jul 2017

Campus Moralism, Old and New

by Connor Grubaugh

The question is not what makes free speech, but what makes good speech. Continue Reading »

9 Sep 2016

The Revolution Eats One of Its Own Midwives

by Carl R. Trueman

Veteran human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell finds himself on the receiving end of the world he unwittingly helped to create. Continue Reading »

16 Feb 2016

Rights Talk, Majority Tyranny, and the Harms We “See”

by James R. Rogers

Continuing arguments over gun rights and violence brought to mind Tocqueville’s observation that he knew “no country where there prevails, in general, less independence of mind and less true freedom of discussion than in America.” This, for Tocqueville, occurred because “In America, the . . . . Continue Reading »

9 Dec 2015

Georgetown and the Death of Moral Discourse

by Carl R. Trueman

Recent events at Georgetown University are symptomatic of the degeneration of moral discourse in America. Continue Reading »

3 Mar 2015

The Student Speech Police

by Mark Bauerlein

We have a strange transformation taking place on campus today. Back in the ‘60s, at Berkeley and elsewhere, students formed Free Speech Movements and struck down one propriety and norm after another. Continue Reading »

14 Jan 2015

In Praise of Folly

by Carl R. Trueman

The reactions to the attack on Charlie Hebdo highlight the odd affinity between the left and radical Islam and also draw attention to the unsung—and Augustinian—champions of liberal democracy: Satirists. Continue Reading »

12 Jan 2015

My Life With Charlie Hebdo

by Eve-Alice Roustang

As a student at the Sorbonne in my early twenties, back in the mid 1990s, every Wednesday before hitting the subway I would buy Charlie Hebdo. I was young, I was studying French literature in the course of becoming a teacher, and Charlie Hebdo was a weekly break from the classics. I didn’t pay much attention to the politics, which were far left. My friends and I would discuss the drawings, our favorite part of the magazine: “This one is perfect!” “Right on!” “And this one! Poor [insert name of politician]! They really got him!” “But Charb exaggerates in this one—it’s just mean.” Continue Reading »

7 Jan 2015