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Lord Nigel Biggar, CBE, is Emeritus Regius Professor of Moral Theology at the University of Oxford and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Pusey House, Oxford. He is the author of several books, including (most recently) The New Dark Age: Why Liberals Must Win the Culture Wars. For the past decade, Lord Biggar has

Editors’ Note: This article is a development of ideas the author has set forth in his previous scholarship, including his recently published book, Taking American Citizenship Seriously: The Recovery of the Fourteenth Amendment ...

Too woke. Too conservative. Everyone has a take on Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, and everyone is eager to share it. 

I won’t offer you a take. For one, I don’t think Nolan’s filmmaking can be easily f...

A legal controversy is brewing in the state of Florida, and it seems to pit the religious liberty rights of Catholic parents against those of the Catholic Church. In a July 31, 2026 letter addressed to th...

In Trump v. Slaughter, the Supreme Court ruled that the president has the authority under Article II of the Constitution to remove members of the Federal Trade Commission. Compared to the Court’s recent decisions about