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Obligations, the Other Side of the Coin as Rights: An essay in response to Daniel Mark’s “The Nature of Law”

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This essay originally appeared in the Center on Religion Culture and Democracy‘s Reading Wheel. It is reprinted with permission. Right-of-center writers on philosophy and law have penned some fascinating books in recent years calling attention to rights as well as their attendant obligations. From Adrian Vermeule with Common Good Constitutionalism, to Erika Bachiochi with The

Closed on Sunday

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Americans have forgotten what true leisure is. Leisure is not merely the absence of labor or the recuperation of health and vitality, so that labor can be resumed. Nor should it be compared to escapism, which by its very definition, preoccupies and prevents one from contemplating and ordering one’s mind to reality. Instead, true leisure

A Common Call to Prayer

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Continuing our symposium on school prayer, JWI Affiliated Scholar Gunnar Gundersen makes the case for a common call to prayer in American public life and in its public education.

Originalism and Its Discontents

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Prof. David Forte responds to “A Better Originalism,” reminding we must look at the Constitution as a whole, both its legal presence and its moral principles.

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