The Just Third Way

The original intent of the framers of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States was to extend the status of "person...

In Roe v. Wade (410 U.S. 113 (1973)), the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States declared that they did not know whether a fetu...

With the glorious rise in the Dow after horrifying days (not hours) of disastrous plunges, the economy is once again firmly established on t...

In the previous posting in this series we looked briefly at Aristotle's error in concluding that people all have different capacities to...

In the previous posting in this series we claimed that personality — personhood — and the natural right of private property (along with the ...

Even before we posted the final part of our short series on the natural law, we received enquiries asking about going into greater depth in ...

In our penultimate posting in this series, we discovered that materialists who reject faith, and believers who reject reason, are in reality...

Consistent with its recent behavior, the stock market is down again. At least as these words are being typed. We just checked the "Ya...

In the previous posting in this immensely popular series (although not as popular as "Justice, Justice, Thou Shalt Pursue" — on wh...

As we saw in our last exciting episode in this series, not everyone agrees that human positive law is or even needs to be a reflection of an...

In 1955, Milovan Djilas published a devastating critique of the allegedly classless society established under communist rule in Eastern Euro...

We're starting to hear more about how "Obamanomics" has failed. It's tempting, of course, to blame Mr. Obama for the prob...

The good news is that the recovery is once again well under way. The Dow has been up to over ten thousand, and the country is saved. Not o...

Yesterday we noted that Dr. Max Weismann had sent us two articles by Mortimer J. Adler on the natural law and justice. Dr. Adler, of cours...

Somewhat to our surprise, our posting Monday of this week on Professor Michael Sandel's course on justice at Harvard ("Justice, Jus...

This is an expanded report on the visit to CESJ by Dr. Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir, former Minister of Planning of Bangladesh and current Member ...