By: Ilya Shapiro – wsj.com – June 6, 2022 Dean William Treanor cleared me on the technicality that I wasn’t an employee when I tweeted, but the IDEAA implicitly repealed Georgetown’s Speech and Expression Policy and set me up for discipline the next time I transgress progressive orthodoxy. Instead of participating in that slow-motion firing, I’m resigning. IDEAA speciously found...

  By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – June 6, 2022 But Mr. Shapiro was encouraged by dean William Treanor and the school’s Speech and Expression Policy, which promises to defend dissenting voices on campus. His painful education has been discovering that some speech is more protected than others. In late January, shortly before he was supposed to start at...

By: Timothy Dolan – wsj.com – June 8, 2022 Unfortunately, our political system appears to be broken, as Republicans and Democrats operate in silos and see more political benefit in intransigence than consensus. The result is that both parties reject policies that would fortify what St. John Paul II referred to as a culture of life and instead embrace what...

On Wednesday, as part of a slate of bills aimed at curbing mass shootings and gun violence, the House voted to increase the age required to purchase a semi-automatic rifle from 18 to 21.  

By: David French – nationalreview.com – October 5, 2018 The obvious threat against the Supreme Court to which the Biden Justice Department has turned a blind eye has now escalated to its inevitable next phase with the arrest of a California man early this morning for allegedly plotting to murder Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The man was apprehended shortly before 2...

There is a reason nearly everyone is familiar with the saying, “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”The reason is, of course, that it is true and therefore it helps explain why there is so much evil.

By: Rich Lowry – nationalreview.com – June 7, 2022 The headlines coming out of the weekend were grim. Axios: “At least 54 injured, 11 killed in 7 separate mass shootings this weekend.” NBC News: “At least 12 dead in another weekend of mass shootings across America.” Yahoo! News: “At least 12 dead in 10 mass shootings in U.S. over the...

By: Caroline Downey – nationalreview.com – June 7, 2022 Pro-abortion terrorists firebombed a pro-life Christian pregnancy center in Buffalo, N.Y. on Tuesday, inflicting significant damage on the building and vandalizing the remains with their organization’s name. Pro-abortion group Jane’s Revenge, which has developed a reputation for resorting to violence, claimed responsibility for the attack, which left glass shattered and much...

Natural law shows that things like abortion, homosexuality, pornography, etc. are bad for us (i.e., evil). Thus, we have no “rights” to such things.

In 1974, long before virtual reality (VR) was even a “twinkle in the eye” of most technology researchers, philosopher Robert Nozick introduced a thought experiment called the Experience Machine to illustrate the inadequacy of the philosophy of experiential hedonism.