The American Understanding of Natural Rights
Our chances to maintain America’s natural-rights tradition are far better if we defend it with appeals to reason, common to all, as America’s Founders did.
U.N. Human-Rights Dissonance: From Religious Freedom to Criminalizing Blasphemy
Never value suppression of blasphemy over freedom of speech.
The Bill of Rights Doesn’t Need ‘Rethinking’
The freedoms guranteed by the Bill of Rights are as important now as they’ve ever been. Why would anyone want to limit them?
Harry Reid’s Nuclear Hypocrisy
Harry Reid is set to “go nuclear.” He wants to end the filibuster as it applies to appellate court nominations — not by a two-thirds vote of the Senate, as ...
America’s Human-Rights Problem: Intellectual Corruption
America has human-rights problems, the Obama State Department told the world this week, especially concerning our treatment of women, blacks, Latinos, Muslims, South Asians, Native Americans, and members of the ...
A Tale of Two Editorials
It’s a rare day when the New York Times gets something right editorially while the Wall Street Journal gets it wrong — and on gun rights, no less. Yet that ...
Health Care and the Constitution
George Will, baseball’s most articulate fan, hit a home run this morning. His examination of arguments for and against the constitutionality of Obamacare’s individual mandate takes his readers to fundamental ...
Executive Omnipotence in Copenhagen
As climate talks conclude in Copenhagen today, all eyes will be on President Obama — the “miracle worker” many hope will “save the planet.” Regrettably, the underlying assumption here — ...
A Layman for the Supreme Court?
As if his populist streak needed further encouragement, President Obama is being urged by some in Washington’s political class to look beyond the usual sources when he fills Justice David ...
Addendum
I shall limit myself to one response to Matthew Franck’s lengthy rejoinder to my post earlier today:
In criticizing my understanding of “substantive due process,” Franck claims that the only ...