American civil religion does call for caution and skepticism. But it also has the potential for good.
We should be skeptical of American civil religion. But not every connection between faith and politics falls into that category.
Increased interest in civil religion should prompt serious reflection on its history, malleability, and tendency to instrumentalize faith.
The common good legal movement avoids the hard work of making constitutionalism function in the polity we actually inhabit.
Is common good constitutionalism a type of conservative jurisprudence?
Despite his flaws, Rawls sheds light on the problem of pluralism and the profound challenges it poses to the stability of a liberal democratic regime.
The most fashionable ideas on the intellectual right—populism, nationalism, integralism—challenge the emphasis on freedom.
While enduring the tribulations of sectarian Liberalism, Catholics must have an alternative vision that prioritizes liberty on natural law grounds.
Assessing Fr. John Courtney Murray's We Hold These Truths at 60.
Just because someone asserts that an approach is “conservative” doesn’t make it so, or make it it politically practical or responsive to our times.
Piety is not itself nonsense and we cannot do without the recognition that some things are higher, off-limits, and worth sacrificing for.