The topic named in my title is one that I've written about before, for an academic journal , on this blog,  and in the course of combo...

Only an outrage combining religion and politics has managed to rouse me from a self-imposed silence over the past several months. I am ...

This past week brings news of yet another fracas involving Swedish cartoon artist Lars Vilks (CNN.com): When Vilks entered a classroom whe...

As a young man, I was a Republican of the libertarian sort. I believed that the sole duties of government were to defend the borders, enforc...

In an article on the First Things blog last week, Prof. Robert P. George wrote (emphasis added): There are many profound respects in whic...

Some Americans know, and all should know, something said by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: "Congress shall make no law r...