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

The online journal of The Witherspoon Institute ...

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

The New Dark Ages, which I hope will be widely read, is a brief, brisk, and persuasive book about the damage our screen life is doing to our social and political life. He puts the matter starkly in ...

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 ...

The title of James Patterson’s and Thomas Howes’s book Why Postliberalism Failed is not inspired by a belief that the contemporary American postliberal movement (made most famous in Patrick Deneen’s ...

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 ...

China’s rise forces scholars and policymakers to confront an uncomfortable reality: that modernity no longer belongs to the West. Few ideas have so dominated twentieth-century political thought as ...

So long as the pro-life movement is part of the GOP coalition, the attractiveness of the pro-life message is affected by the attractiveness of the GOP. And it’s hard to grow the pro-life tent if the ...

There is something severe in this kind of wisdom, but also merciful. We cannot command that the past return what it has rightfully taken. We cannot bargain with time, or exempt ourselves, or those we ...

On August 12, 2026, Stanford’s Digital Economy Lab reported a striking divergence in the early-career labor market. Employment among workers ages 22 to 25 in highly AI-exposed occupations stood about ...

Theory, though it blazed brightly for a time, was doomed to burn out. It simply could not give a deep account of the human condition and of those things that are most important to being human—e.g., ...