Acknowledgements I am immensely grateful to those who challenged me to conduct
thorough research, to deliberate over each word in this essay, and to think as a historian …

Last summer in Montague on Prince Edward Island, I read about statesmen that White
House staffers called" WOMS," Wise Old Men. They" deeply believed that what they thought …

Recently, Oklahoma Senator James Lankford declared that,"[i] n America, every person has
the right to have any faith of their choosingor to have no faith at all-and you are still a great …

These two volumes make available the fruits of Brian Tierney's long-standing search for the
roots of modem natural rights theory in the legal doctrines (and especially the canon law …

In the years before the Civil War, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 focused public discussion of
the duty to abide by law, as well as the obligations of individual (and religiously inspired) …

This excellent book is about Western morality as it interacts with law. It is not contrasting the
moral foundations of American law with other value systems. Rather the authors examine …

Another common trait of myths is the manifest impossibility of many of the events and beings
described. Fifty-headed monsters, shape-changing deities, talking animals, descents to the …

Like most students at the beginning of law school, I learned about the “reasonable man”
standard. This standard of analysis emerged in nineteenth-century Anglo-American …

Arthur S. Miller was a scholarly friend of mine. We never met, however, and I do not
remember that we ever talked by phone. Arthur befriended me and taught me through his …

It is not easy to see moral ideals change. The alteration of assumptions is too subtle, the
shifting foundations of guilt and pride too nearly invisible. But when the moral life moves-like …