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 ...

Rana’s history prompts us to reflect on how we ought to conceive of American identity and defend the Constitution’s anti-majoritarian checks and balances in the twenty-first century. Partisan gridlock ...

The only reliable method we have found to aggregate preferences, abilities, and efforts is the free market. Through the price system, it aligns incentives with information revelation. This method is ...

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 ...

If our society is to answer the question “What is a woman?” we will have to think more about how women can integrate their professions with their femininity, without stifling it, and about the value ...

I shall argue, perhaps not very controversially, that according to previous papal teaching, a Catholic confessional state is the ideal, even if in most modern situations it’s not a practical ...