Christians and Politics
"We could pass every pro-life law, every pro-family law, we could get rid of poverty tomorrow--and that wouldn't make America Christian....
The Art of (Political) Correctness
Lost...in this battle over how our ideas (and ourselves) are presented and perceived, is what those ideas are. The primary focus of any...
Teaching the "Habits of Democracy"
“Politics isn’t dysfunction because of polarization, per se, so much as political detachment…'I think there’s some causation that...
The Arrow of History
“Barack Obama is a classic case study in foreign policy idealism. Indeed, one of his favorite quotations is about the arrow of history:...
Why Free Speech Matters on Campus
“Our advice is this: Stop stifling free speech and coddling intolerance for controversial ideas, which are crucial to a college education...
America in the Shadow of France, 2002
“'Vote for the crook, not the fascist!' So urged the French newspaper Libération on the morning of April 23, 2002. The paper's editors...
A Confession of Liberal Intolerance
"We progressives believe in diversity, and we want women, blacks, Latinos, gays and Muslims at the table — er, so long as they aren’t...
On Being Protested by Westboro Baptist Church
"Offense is easy. Anger is easy. The way of Christ’s love, grace, and forgiveness is hard. Following Christ means walking behind him on...
#HeForShe: Gender Equality Begins at Conception
"Watson states, 'My life is a sheer privilege because my parents didn’t love me less because I was born a daughter.' Sex-selective...
I'm a liberal lawyer. Clerking for Scalia taught me how to think about the law.
"If there was a true surprise during my year clerking for Scalia, it was how little reference he made to political outcomes. What he...