14+ hour, 6+ min ago  (166+ words) The amicus brief attempts to construct an argument: Persons have a fundamental need to be part of a community; any modification or restriction of birthright citizenship deprives a newborn child of that fundamental need; ergo, such measures violate human dignity....

2+ mon, 4+ week ago  (377+ words) It was a brisk early morning when I set off from the John Jay Institute last Friday to attend the March for Life in Washington, D. C. Having just spent the last year closely following the daily politics of the capital, I…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (128+ words) After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for Peopleby dean spears and michael gerusosimon and schuster, 320 pages, $29. 99 No one can say when it will occur. All we can know is that that world will be quite different from our…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (325+ words) Yes, the administration has been ostentatious about performing aspects of religiosity. But its top policy priorities have tended not to display any real commitment to the concerns raised by people of faith. Old-guard concerns about the institution of marriage, single…...