On the Intelligibility of Political Philosophy, by Charles N. R. McCoy, edited by James V. Schall and John J. Schrens (Catholic University of America, 306pp., $45)
THE NEWS that Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas subscribes to the doctrine of natural law has been received with something like alarm by liberals and even a few conservatives. The former suspect an archaic, vaguely medieval approach to law that would surely reverse their great gains in the last few decades. The latter are wary of the “judicial activism” that a rigorous adherence to natural law would seem to require.
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