French and Ahmari Enter the Ring

by Ramona Tausz

If the founders referred government to a specific conception of good, then Drag Queen Story Hours cannot be defended by purported “viewpoint neutrality.” 
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7 Sep 2019

Corporate Power and the Public Square

by Pete Spiliakos

The law must protect Internet users from the ideological encroachment of big business. Continue Reading »

16 Jul 2019

Public Faith and the Peace Cross

by Ed Condon

A recent Supreme Court decision acknowledges the historic role of faith in shaping the country. Continue Reading »

21 Jun 2019

Hawley Defends the Public Square

by Jon Schweppe

A new bill addresses the nature of free speech in the Internet age. Continue Reading »

20 Jun 2019

Sacramental Realism

by R. R. Reno

To outsiders, the proposal of communion for the divorced and remarried seems a modest adjustment. But it has provoked adamant resistance among the faithful because it throws in doubt the basic logic of the gospel. From her beginnings, the Church has known that the baptized, while born again in . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2018

The Truce of 2005?

by Richard John Neuhaus

In his influential book The Courage to Be Catholic, George Weigel wrote about the “The Truce of 1968.” By that is meant the decision not to discipline the many theologians and priests who, in a public and concerted campaign, rejected the teaching of the 1968 encyclical on human sexuality, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2006

The End of Democracy? Our Judicial Oligarchy

by Robert H. Bork

This last term of the Supreme Court brought home to us with fresh clarity what it means to be ruled by an oligarchy. The most important moral, political, and cultural decisions affecting our lives are steadily being removed from democratic control. Only Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 1996

The Real John Dewey

by Richard John Neuhaus

This writer has sometimes puzzled friends and critics alike by expressing a firm, though qualified, admiration for John Dewey. John Dewey?! You mean that arch-secular humanist, that despiser of religious “superstition,” that progressivist despoiler of our once commonsensical public schools? Yes, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 1992

The Death Watch

by Richard John Neuhaus

The Public SquareWe need not speculate about what may be down “the slippery slope” on which we find ourselves. The truly ominous changes are the stuff of our daily newspapers. These things are happening now. Consider the much discussed case of Nancy Cruzan. On December 15, 1990, the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 1991

Bilbao Alone

by Jill P. Baumgaertner

Some of the sounds here are familiar: Vivaldi plays the same in this language, keys rattle in locks, the engines of buses sigh as they turn street corners. But something is different, an odd solitude. It digs itself under my watch into the small bones of my wrist. Here in . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 1991