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

To what extent can migration be legitimately regulated and enforced, and under what circumstances may migrants already ...

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 ...

The online journal of The Witherspoon Institute ...

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.

There is no guarantee that the bioethics of our future will live up to America’s founding promises and insights. Those of us concerned that such a bioethics should exist must, as Lincoln said in ...

The lesson here is as simple as it is profound. The market, meaning the right to quit and get another job on better terms, is the best protection for the worker. This story is fundamentally wrong. For ...

A friendship begun in 1985, forged in shared Christian faith and encounters with human misery driven by animus toward religion, would become the ground on which a historic legacy would be built. In ...

What are the ethical issues surrounding government debt? This is a good time to start taking that question seriously. You don’t have to look hard to find alarm about high U.S. government deficits and ...

Contrary to some critical readers, the liberal democracy that Hopeful Realism can affirm is far from neutral. Seminary students are warned against the dangers of “illegitimate totality transfer” (ITT) ...

The Founders understood humanity’s inherent corruption and recognized that both civil and religious liberties rest on the common principle of faithfulness to God. If we lose sight of fidelity to God, ...