Neil Gorsuch, the Trump administration’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, is a proponent of natural law. What does that say about Gorsuch and about issues of high interest to faithful Catholics? It ...

On May 30, the State Department announced that it was setting up a Commission on Unalienable Rights to advise the Secretary of State, and “provide fresh thinking about human rights discourse where ...

Does James Talarico Realize He’s Running to Represent Texas? Audio By Carbonatix Some critics of originalism fault it on natural-law grounds. Their critiques are wanting. Constitutional theorists on ...

Art and History, Downtown, Uptown, and Is That a Ghost at Jumel Terrace? Who Cares If Homer Nodded? Wall Street’s Revolutionary War Audio By Carbonatix Another critique fails to establish a divergence ...

Philippine Bishop Broderick Pabaillo, left, leads a prayer after celebrating Mass with human rights advocates condemning extra judicial killings, at the Redemptorist Church in Manila in this Aug. 10, ...

Natural Law and Human Rights: Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason, by Pierre Manent (University of Notre Dame Press, 149 pp., $29) Russell Kirk once described natural law as “an ethical knowledge, ...

It is apparent that Trump himself never so much as glanced at this nation’s defining document. The only more worrisome and lamentable fact is that tens of millions of Americans found this president’s ...

Constitutional theorists on the right are engaged in a debate about the moral foundations of originalism, the theory that government officials, including judges, are bound by the original meaning of ...

There is an ongoing debate among scholars and commentators about the compatibility of originalism and the natural-law tradition. Most prominently, Harvard law professor Adrian Vermeule and emeritus ...