Nov 2, 2020
Assessing Fr. John Courtney Murray's We Hold These Truths at 60.
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Discussions & debates on the pressing issues of our current political scene.
Nov 25, 2020
Without a realistic sense of the possibilities, it is impossible to chart a prudent course.
Nov 23, 2020
We Hold These Truths was, as it were, false from the moment it was printed.
Nov 18, 2020
The American Founding's realism about the fallen world might be something St. Thomas would recognize.
Nov 11, 2020
Murray knew that the reduction of idea of democracy to a set of functions and institutions would be the death of democracy.
Nov 4, 2020
One way or another, we must order our common life in accord with a consensus about what makes men happy.
Oct 1, 2020
Civility is not much prized in our revolutionary climate because it is a deeply traditional practice.
Oct 30, 2020
While acerbic criticism may rally the troops, it probably does more harm than good in pursuance of civil peace.
Oct 21, 2020
While it may be a modest, middle-age virtue, civility is foundational to sustain a pluralistic liberal democracy.
Oct 14, 2020
The anger we feel in the present moment is a hot emotion directed at our fellow citizens: it is indicative of in-house strife.
Oct 7, 2020
Did the practice of civility, if such there was, stave off our culture wars or abet them?
Sep 1, 2020
Originalists must confront the value of legal stability promoted by stare decisis more squarely.
Sep 30, 2020
Originalists need to acknowledge the traditionalism of constitutional law and that precedential age, endurance, and connection to common practice matter.
Sep 23, 2020
Any effort to restore the American legal tradition must recognize that "individual liberty" decisions have revolutionized our constitutional order.
Sep 16, 2020
Without an imperative to bring precedents into alignment with original meaning, stare decisis becomes the “exception” that swallows the Constitution.
Sep 9, 2020
At some point in time, the Supreme Court abandoned originalism, and prior originalist precedents, and came up with new law altogether.