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What Are We Enhancing?0
- November/December 2009
- November 1, 2009
Thursday morning, July 30: The mainstream media and punditocracy continued to obsess over &”Gatesgate&” and that evening’s impending &”Beer Summit&” on the White House lawn. Meanwhile, in a barely reported story, U.S. district court judge Ellen Segal Huvelle finally ran out of patience with the U.S. Department of Justice over a human rights violation, compared
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A Clash of Millennialisms on Capitol Hill 0
- November/December 2009
- November 1, 2009
The Christian lobby came to Capitol Hill in a big way in 1888. And that meant that the nation’s lawmakers were certain to hear from the &”counter-lobby&” spearheaded by the American Sentinel magazine as well. (The Sentinel was the precursor to Liberty magazine.) As discussed in part 1 of this series, the main purpose of
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Faith, Freedom, and Justice Sonia Sotomayor 0
- November/December 2009
- November 1, 2009
Ever since President Barack Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court, the chattering classes have speculated endlessly regarding the impact she might have on the future of American jurisprudence.1 She would bring wide-ranging experiences to the Court: prosecutor, civil litigator, federal trial judge, federal appellate judge, law school instructor, and Hispanic woman.2
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Gods and Generals 0
- November/December 2009
- November 1, 2009
Old World/New World disparity can be as different as treasured paintings on a crumbling church wall in Florence, Italy, and bulldozers leveling yet another graffiti-festooned 1970’s-era inner-city project in some big U.S. city. The Old World/New World split this magazine often deals with is one of escape: a spectrum of immigrants—refugees—fleeing religious intolerance and warfare.
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Public Morality 0
- September/October 2009
- September 1, 2009
In a pluralistic society a fundamental assumption of public policy is the recognition that everything immoral need not be declared illegal. The public morality that is expressed in law reflects a consensus derived from public debate. . . . Social realities as well as religious principles must be taken into account in judging the wisdom
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The Power to Change 0
- September/October 2009
- September 1, 2009
The experience of the Religious Right is a cautionary one. Successful in putting together a coalition with enormous electoral clout for over three decades, they were mainly unsuccessful in changing American life. In addition to adopting a hectoring tone that embarrassed many evangelical Christians, they were wrong about what the United States Constitution means in
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