Jurisprudence

Reordering the Public Square

by Gunnar Gundersen

A leftist hermeneutic is masquerading as “neutrality” in American jurisprudence today.  Continue Reading »

Conciliating Hatred

by Steven D. Smith

These days, if you announce that the Supreme Court is doing politics rather than law you will provoke more yawns than protests. But what sort of politics is the Court doing? Justice Antonin Scalia frequently charges the Court with stepping out of its judicial role and taking sides in the culture . . . . Continue Reading »

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 »