God save the U.S.

Let us agree that the 44 Democratic senators whose votes last month blocked the Born-Alive Protection Act aren’t monsters. But, that agreed, let us also agree that what they did was a moral atrocity whose effect was to safeguard the moral equivalent

Establishment of religion under scrutiny

Will a 94-year-old cross-shaped memorial honoring servicemen who died in World War I be the vehicle for a Supreme Court decision that affirms a more realistic interpretation of the Constitution’s ban on a governmental “establishment” of religion? That question will move a

Could IN abortion case make a dent in ‘Roe’?

As the 46th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s legalization of abortion approaches, the court is being asked to reconsider its refusal to recognize the humanity of the unborn. Pro-life groups hope the court — now believed to have a majority of pro-life

The reflecting mirror of the Kavanaugh hearings

As I think about the Senate hearings on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, the entire affair looks like a monstrous, distorting mirror where Americans see reflected certain large realities that darken our national life. Start with politics, surely the most