On his first day in office in January 2025, Trump issued an executive order attempting to deny citizenship to the children ...

Good law requires more than popular approval. It needs an objective standard to measure it against and a legislature that ...

At a time when political wisdom seems in desperately short supply, is the revolutionary imposition of a controversial theory ...

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Readers, respect not the friends, critics, or even the judgments of posterity that insist on a book’s greatness. Enjoy what you read, and if you’re not enjoying yourself, stop, close the book, and go ...

We should dedicate part of our political efforts over the next twenty-five years to restoring the original understanding of the freedom of the press in American culture and constitutional law.

Public Discourse accepts unsolicited, unpublished submissions that have not been submitted for possible publication elsewhere. What kind of content are we looking for? Original Essays: 1500-2000 words ...

The problem with scientism is that it is either self-defeating or trivially true. F.A. Hayek helps us to see why. The first article in a two-part series.

Regrettably, Gress's latest book is an exercise in dispatching straw men of its own making. Carrie Gress’s newest book, Something Wicked: Why Feminism Can’t Be Fused with Christianity, has a noble ...

The Pediatric Endocrine Society recently issued a statement claiming that the effects of puberty-blocking medications on normal puberty are reversible. Has the FDA determined that there is scientific ...

Law, of its various sorts, has a role to play in humans’ full realization of their nature by free acts. What role? To ask this question is to seek to grasp Thomas’s natural law teaching in the context ...

Integralism delivers a more realistic view of how states actually function—including states that are secular—than do models currently dominant in political and legal philosophy. This essay is part of ...