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Books

Religious Liberty and Political Morality

– In Stephen Krason and Donald D'Elia (eds.), We Hold These Truths and More: Reflections on the American Proposition (University of Steubenville Press, 1993).

In Defense of Natural Law

– Oxford University Press, 1999.
Description from Publisher: In Making Men Moral, his 1995 book, George questioned the central doctrines of liberal jurisprudence and political theory. In his new work he extends his… More

Religious Values and Politics

– In Francis A. Eigo (ed.), Religious Values at the Threshold of the Third Millennium (Villanova University Press, 1999), with William Saunders.

Reason, Freedom, and the Rule of Law

– American Journal of Jurisprudence 46 (2001). Reprinted in the American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Law 1:1 (Fall 2001), Regent University Law Review 15:2 (2002-2003), Charles W. Dunn (ed.), Faith, Freedom, and the Future:  Religion in American Political Culture (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), The Clarion Review 2 (2004), and Michael  A. Scaperlanda and Teresa Stanton Collet (eds.), Recovering Self-Evident Truths:  Catholic Perspectives on American Law (Catholic University of America Press, 2007).
The idea of law and the ideal of the rule of law are central to the natural law tradition of thought about public (or “political”) order. St. Thomas Aquinas went so far as to… More

Barring Faith

– The Weekly Standard, July 17, 2006, with Gerald V. Bradley
TO FULLY APPRECIATE the wrong headedness of a federal district court’s recent decision expelling a faith-based program from an Iowa prison, it is necessary first to take a backward… More

Solomonic Wisdom

– National Review, August 16, 2010, with Matthew J. Franck.
n June 28, the Senate Judiciary Committee began hearings on Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court nomination. On the same day, the Court announced its decision in Christian Legal Society v.… More

Religious liberty and the human good

– International Journal of Religious Freedom 5:1 (2012).
Abstract: “Religious liberty and the human good” is a defense of a robust conception of the obligations of governments to respect and protect religious freedom for the sake of the… More

Religious Liberty and the Human Good, The Conversation

– Institute for American Values, May 29, 2012, YouTube.
From “Religious Liberty and the Human Good” a conversation with Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University. Hosted by David Blankenhorn,… More

Religious Liberty and the Human Good

– Lecture at the University of New Orleans, January 24, 2013, published by Chris Surprenant, YouTube.
This talk took place on 1/24/2013 at the University of New Orleans as part of the Tocqueville Project’s Lectures on Liberty series. For more information, please visit… More

Reason, Morality, and Law: The Philosophy of John Finnis

– With John Keown, eds. Oxford University Press, 2013.
Description from Publisher: John Finnis is a pioneer in the development of a new yet classically-grounded theory of natural law. His work offers a systematic philosophy of practical… More

Religious Freedom is About More Than Religion

– Wall Street Journal, July 25, 2013, with Katrina Lantos Swett.
A common theory about freedom of religion suggests that such a value is grounded in a modus vivendi, or compromise: People agree to respect each other’s freedom in order to avoid… More

Pakistan’s Religious Minority Problem

– Foreign Policy, August 9, 2013.
On Sunday, August 11, Pakistan will celebrate National Minorities Day, giving recently-elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif his first formal opportunity to recognize the value of religious… More

The U.S.’s Lagging Commitment to Religious Freedom

– Washington Post, August 21, 2013, with Katrina Lantos Swett.
Although religious freedom is a pivotal human right, critical to national security and global stability, key provisions of the landmark International Religious Freedom Act are being… More

Liberty and Conscience

– National Affairs, Fall 2013.
One of the more dubious achievements of the Obama administration has been to put religious freedom and the rights of conscience back on the agenda in American politics. Most notoriously,… More

Dr. Robert P. George on His Letter to the President

– NewsmaxTV, September 25, 2013, YouTube.
Dr. Robert P. George, Chairman of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, joins Steve to discuss his letter to the President about attacks committed against… More

2014 Cardinal O’Connor Keynote

– Georgetown University, January 20, 2014, YouTube.
The Keynote Address by Robert P. George, Princeton’s McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, is entitled, “Abortion and the Attack on Conscience” and took place on January… More

Religious Exemptions are Vital for Religious Liberty

– Wall Street Journal, March 23, 2014, with Hamza Yusuf.
The United States is one of the most religiously diverse nations on earth. People of a vast array of traditions of faith live here in a harmony that would have been unthinkable in most of… More

10th Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast

– Guest speaker at the 10th annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, Washington, DC, May 13, 2014, published by the American Principles Project, YouTube.
Robert George speaks at the Catholic National Prayer Breakfast on the trials of being a faithful christian in the modern world.

Iran’s Forgotten Prisoners of Conscience

– Wall Street Journal, May 19, 2014, with Katrina Lantos Swett.
As Iran approaches the anniversary of Hasan Rouhani’s presidential victory, the Islamic Republic’s human-rights record, particularly its treatment of religious minorities,… More

Supporting Religious Freedom

– Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, May 30, 2014.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), of which I am Chairman, released its 2014 Annual Report on April 30. As in previous years, the report analyzed the… More

A Reflection on U.S. International Religious Freedom Policy

– Council on Foreign Relations, panel discussion, June 19, 2014.
Princeton University’s Robert P. George leads a conversation on U.S. international religious freedom policy fifteen years after the International Religious Freedom Act, as part of… More

Faith, Sex, and Freedom

– Speech at Love and Fidelity Network's Seventh Annual National Conference on Sexuality, Integrity, and the University, Princeton University, November 8, 2014, YouTube.
Professor George will discuss the threats posed by the legal recognition of same-sex partnerships as “marriages,” especially when combined with “Sexual Orientation and… More

Russia’s Extremism Law Violates Human Rights

– The Moscow Times, November 26, 2014, with Katrina Lantos Swett.
Last Friday, a video deemed offensive to the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church was ruled “extremist” by a city court in Vladimir. While Alexander… More

Robert P. George’s Wilberforce Award Speech

– Colson Center, published June 11, 2015, YouTube.
Dr. Robert P. George, recipient of the 2015 William Wilberforce Award, speaks on standing up for Christian values in an Ivy League institution.

Why We’re Losing Liberty

– Prager University online course, published September 7, 2015, YouTube.
Was the Constitution written in a way that was designed to protect freedom and limit the government’s size? Has it been effective in doing that? And what’s the Supreme… More

Reporting on Religious Persecution: A Global Challenge

– Panel discussion at the Newseum Institute, with panelists Katrina Lantos Swett, Libby Liu, Asia Akbar Shahid Ahmed, Former U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf, and Tom Gjelten, September 21, 2015, YouTube.
Journalists and activist organizations reporting on the persecution of religious minorities around the world face challenges and dangers. This panel discussion features journalists and… More

C-SPAN Appearances

– C-SPAN.
Follow the link to all of Robert George’s video lectures and discussions of religious freedom, U.S. foreign policy, immigration, the Constitution and more.

Why I Wanted to Debate Peter Singer

– Wall Street Journal, Dec 18, 2016.
Excerpt: If you are a student at a college or university, you are there to learn—from the faculty, from the speakers who visit campus, and from each other. It is a precious opportunity.… More

On Peter Simpson on “Illiberal Liberalism”

– The American Journal of Jurisprudence, Volume 62, Issue 1, 1 June 2017, pp. 103–110.
Abstract: Is “liberalism,” as the term is used by leading contemporary self-described liberals such as the late John Rawls and the late Ronald Dworkin, and as put into practice by the… More

Essays

Religious Liberty and Political Morality

– In Stephen Krason and Donald D'Elia (eds.), We Hold These Truths and More: Reflections on the American Proposition (University of Steubenville Press, 1993).

In Defense of Natural Law

– Oxford University Press, 1999.
Description from Publisher: In Making Men Moral, his 1995 book, George questioned the central doctrines of liberal jurisprudence and political theory. In his new work he extends his… More

Religious Values and Politics

– In Francis A. Eigo (ed.), Religious Values at the Threshold of the Third Millennium (Villanova University Press, 1999), with William Saunders.

Reason, Freedom, and the Rule of Law

– American Journal of Jurisprudence 46 (2001). Reprinted in the American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Law 1:1 (Fall 2001), Regent University Law Review 15:2 (2002-2003), Charles W. Dunn (ed.), Faith, Freedom, and the Future:  Religion in American Political Culture (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), The Clarion Review 2 (2004), and Michael  A. Scaperlanda and Teresa Stanton Collet (eds.), Recovering Self-Evident Truths:  Catholic Perspectives on American Law (Catholic University of America Press, 2007).
The idea of law and the ideal of the rule of law are central to the natural law tradition of thought about public (or “political”) order. St. Thomas Aquinas went so far as to… More

Barring Faith

– The Weekly Standard, July 17, 2006, with Gerald V. Bradley
TO FULLY APPRECIATE the wrong headedness of a federal district court’s recent decision expelling a faith-based program from an Iowa prison, it is necessary first to take a backward… More

Solomonic Wisdom

– National Review, August 16, 2010, with Matthew J. Franck.
n June 28, the Senate Judiciary Committee began hearings on Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court nomination. On the same day, the Court announced its decision in Christian Legal Society v.… More

Religious liberty and the human good

– International Journal of Religious Freedom 5:1 (2012).
Abstract: “Religious liberty and the human good” is a defense of a robust conception of the obligations of governments to respect and protect religious freedom for the sake of the… More

Religious Liberty and the Human Good, The Conversation

– Institute for American Values, May 29, 2012, YouTube.
From “Religious Liberty and the Human Good” a conversation with Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University. Hosted by David Blankenhorn,… More

Religious Liberty and the Human Good

– Lecture at the University of New Orleans, January 24, 2013, published by Chris Surprenant, YouTube.
This talk took place on 1/24/2013 at the University of New Orleans as part of the Tocqueville Project’s Lectures on Liberty series. For more information, please visit… More

Reason, Morality, and Law: The Philosophy of John Finnis

– With John Keown, eds. Oxford University Press, 2013.
Description from Publisher: John Finnis is a pioneer in the development of a new yet classically-grounded theory of natural law. His work offers a systematic philosophy of practical… More

Religious Freedom is About More Than Religion

– Wall Street Journal, July 25, 2013, with Katrina Lantos Swett.
A common theory about freedom of religion suggests that such a value is grounded in a modus vivendi, or compromise: People agree to respect each other’s freedom in order to avoid… More

Pakistan’s Religious Minority Problem

– Foreign Policy, August 9, 2013.
On Sunday, August 11, Pakistan will celebrate National Minorities Day, giving recently-elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif his first formal opportunity to recognize the value of religious… More

The U.S.’s Lagging Commitment to Religious Freedom

– Washington Post, August 21, 2013, with Katrina Lantos Swett.
Although religious freedom is a pivotal human right, critical to national security and global stability, key provisions of the landmark International Religious Freedom Act are being… More

Liberty and Conscience

– National Affairs, Fall 2013.
One of the more dubious achievements of the Obama administration has been to put religious freedom and the rights of conscience back on the agenda in American politics. Most notoriously,… More

Dr. Robert P. George on His Letter to the President

– NewsmaxTV, September 25, 2013, YouTube.
Dr. Robert P. George, Chairman of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, joins Steve to discuss his letter to the President about attacks committed against… More

2014 Cardinal O’Connor Keynote

– Georgetown University, January 20, 2014, YouTube.
The Keynote Address by Robert P. George, Princeton’s McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, is entitled, “Abortion and the Attack on Conscience” and took place on January… More

Religious Exemptions are Vital for Religious Liberty

– Wall Street Journal, March 23, 2014, with Hamza Yusuf.
The United States is one of the most religiously diverse nations on earth. People of a vast array of traditions of faith live here in a harmony that would have been unthinkable in most of… More

10th Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast

– Guest speaker at the 10th annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, Washington, DC, May 13, 2014, published by the American Principles Project, YouTube.
Robert George speaks at the Catholic National Prayer Breakfast on the trials of being a faithful christian in the modern world.

Iran’s Forgotten Prisoners of Conscience

– Wall Street Journal, May 19, 2014, with Katrina Lantos Swett.
As Iran approaches the anniversary of Hasan Rouhani’s presidential victory, the Islamic Republic’s human-rights record, particularly its treatment of religious minorities,… More

Supporting Religious Freedom

– Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, May 30, 2014.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), of which I am Chairman, released its 2014 Annual Report on April 30. As in previous years, the report analyzed the… More

A Reflection on U.S. International Religious Freedom Policy

– Council on Foreign Relations, panel discussion, June 19, 2014.
Princeton University’s Robert P. George leads a conversation on U.S. international religious freedom policy fifteen years after the International Religious Freedom Act, as part of… More

Faith, Sex, and Freedom

– Speech at Love and Fidelity Network's Seventh Annual National Conference on Sexuality, Integrity, and the University, Princeton University, November 8, 2014, YouTube.
Professor George will discuss the threats posed by the legal recognition of same-sex partnerships as “marriages,” especially when combined with “Sexual Orientation and… More

Russia’s Extremism Law Violates Human Rights

– The Moscow Times, November 26, 2014, with Katrina Lantos Swett.
Last Friday, a video deemed offensive to the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church was ruled “extremist” by a city court in Vladimir. While Alexander… More

Robert P. George’s Wilberforce Award Speech

– Colson Center, published June 11, 2015, YouTube.
Dr. Robert P. George, recipient of the 2015 William Wilberforce Award, speaks on standing up for Christian values in an Ivy League institution.

Why We’re Losing Liberty

– Prager University online course, published September 7, 2015, YouTube.
Was the Constitution written in a way that was designed to protect freedom and limit the government’s size? Has it been effective in doing that? And what’s the Supreme… More

Reporting on Religious Persecution: A Global Challenge

– Panel discussion at the Newseum Institute, with panelists Katrina Lantos Swett, Libby Liu, Asia Akbar Shahid Ahmed, Former U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf, and Tom Gjelten, September 21, 2015, YouTube.
Journalists and activist organizations reporting on the persecution of religious minorities around the world face challenges and dangers. This panel discussion features journalists and… More

C-SPAN Appearances

– C-SPAN.
Follow the link to all of Robert George’s video lectures and discussions of religious freedom, U.S. foreign policy, immigration, the Constitution and more.

Why I Wanted to Debate Peter Singer

– Wall Street Journal, Dec 18, 2016.
Excerpt: If you are a student at a college or university, you are there to learn—from the faculty, from the speakers who visit campus, and from each other. It is a precious opportunity.… More

On Peter Simpson on “Illiberal Liberalism”

– The American Journal of Jurisprudence, Volume 62, Issue 1, 1 June 2017, pp. 103–110.
Abstract: Is “liberalism,” as the term is used by leading contemporary self-described liberals such as the late John Rawls and the late Ronald Dworkin, and as put into practice by the… More

Commentary

Religious Liberty and Political Morality

– In Stephen Krason and Donald D'Elia (eds.), We Hold These Truths and More: Reflections on the American Proposition (University of Steubenville Press, 1993).

In Defense of Natural Law

– Oxford University Press, 1999.
Description from Publisher: In Making Men Moral, his 1995 book, George questioned the central doctrines of liberal jurisprudence and political theory. In his new work he extends his… More

Religious Values and Politics

– In Francis A. Eigo (ed.), Religious Values at the Threshold of the Third Millennium (Villanova University Press, 1999), with William Saunders.

Reason, Freedom, and the Rule of Law

– American Journal of Jurisprudence 46 (2001). Reprinted in the American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Law 1:1 (Fall 2001), Regent University Law Review 15:2 (2002-2003), Charles W. Dunn (ed.), Faith, Freedom, and the Future:  Religion in American Political Culture (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), The Clarion Review 2 (2004), and Michael  A. Scaperlanda and Teresa Stanton Collet (eds.), Recovering Self-Evident Truths:  Catholic Perspectives on American Law (Catholic University of America Press, 2007).
The idea of law and the ideal of the rule of law are central to the natural law tradition of thought about public (or “political”) order. St. Thomas Aquinas went so far as to… More

Barring Faith

– The Weekly Standard, July 17, 2006, with Gerald V. Bradley
TO FULLY APPRECIATE the wrong headedness of a federal district court’s recent decision expelling a faith-based program from an Iowa prison, it is necessary first to take a backward… More

Solomonic Wisdom

– National Review, August 16, 2010, with Matthew J. Franck.
n June 28, the Senate Judiciary Committee began hearings on Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court nomination. On the same day, the Court announced its decision in Christian Legal Society v.… More

Religious liberty and the human good

– International Journal of Religious Freedom 5:1 (2012).
Abstract: “Religious liberty and the human good” is a defense of a robust conception of the obligations of governments to respect and protect religious freedom for the sake of the… More

Religious Liberty and the Human Good, The Conversation

– Institute for American Values, May 29, 2012, YouTube.
From “Religious Liberty and the Human Good” a conversation with Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University. Hosted by David Blankenhorn,… More

Religious Liberty and the Human Good

– Lecture at the University of New Orleans, January 24, 2013, published by Chris Surprenant, YouTube.
This talk took place on 1/24/2013 at the University of New Orleans as part of the Tocqueville Project’s Lectures on Liberty series. For more information, please visit… More

Reason, Morality, and Law: The Philosophy of John Finnis

– With John Keown, eds. Oxford University Press, 2013.
Description from Publisher: John Finnis is a pioneer in the development of a new yet classically-grounded theory of natural law. His work offers a systematic philosophy of practical… More

Religious Freedom is About More Than Religion

– Wall Street Journal, July 25, 2013, with Katrina Lantos Swett.
A common theory about freedom of religion suggests that such a value is grounded in a modus vivendi, or compromise: People agree to respect each other’s freedom in order to avoid… More

Pakistan’s Religious Minority Problem

– Foreign Policy, August 9, 2013.
On Sunday, August 11, Pakistan will celebrate National Minorities Day, giving recently-elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif his first formal opportunity to recognize the value of religious… More

The U.S.’s Lagging Commitment to Religious Freedom

– Washington Post, August 21, 2013, with Katrina Lantos Swett.
Although religious freedom is a pivotal human right, critical to national security and global stability, key provisions of the landmark International Religious Freedom Act are being… More

Liberty and Conscience

– National Affairs, Fall 2013.
One of the more dubious achievements of the Obama administration has been to put religious freedom and the rights of conscience back on the agenda in American politics. Most notoriously,… More

Dr. Robert P. George on His Letter to the President

– NewsmaxTV, September 25, 2013, YouTube.
Dr. Robert P. George, Chairman of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, joins Steve to discuss his letter to the President about attacks committed against… More

2014 Cardinal O’Connor Keynote

– Georgetown University, January 20, 2014, YouTube.
The Keynote Address by Robert P. George, Princeton’s McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, is entitled, “Abortion and the Attack on Conscience” and took place on January… More

Religious Exemptions are Vital for Religious Liberty

– Wall Street Journal, March 23, 2014, with Hamza Yusuf.
The United States is one of the most religiously diverse nations on earth. People of a vast array of traditions of faith live here in a harmony that would have been unthinkable in most of… More

10th Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast

– Guest speaker at the 10th annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, Washington, DC, May 13, 2014, published by the American Principles Project, YouTube.
Robert George speaks at the Catholic National Prayer Breakfast on the trials of being a faithful christian in the modern world.

Iran’s Forgotten Prisoners of Conscience

– Wall Street Journal, May 19, 2014, with Katrina Lantos Swett.
As Iran approaches the anniversary of Hasan Rouhani’s presidential victory, the Islamic Republic’s human-rights record, particularly its treatment of religious minorities,… More

Supporting Religious Freedom

– Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, May 30, 2014.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), of which I am Chairman, released its 2014 Annual Report on April 30. As in previous years, the report analyzed the… More

A Reflection on U.S. International Religious Freedom Policy

– Council on Foreign Relations, panel discussion, June 19, 2014.
Princeton University’s Robert P. George leads a conversation on U.S. international religious freedom policy fifteen years after the International Religious Freedom Act, as part of… More

Faith, Sex, and Freedom

– Speech at Love and Fidelity Network's Seventh Annual National Conference on Sexuality, Integrity, and the University, Princeton University, November 8, 2014, YouTube.
Professor George will discuss the threats posed by the legal recognition of same-sex partnerships as “marriages,” especially when combined with “Sexual Orientation and… More

Russia’s Extremism Law Violates Human Rights

– The Moscow Times, November 26, 2014, with Katrina Lantos Swett.
Last Friday, a video deemed offensive to the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church was ruled “extremist” by a city court in Vladimir. While Alexander… More

Robert P. George’s Wilberforce Award Speech

– Colson Center, published June 11, 2015, YouTube.
Dr. Robert P. George, recipient of the 2015 William Wilberforce Award, speaks on standing up for Christian values in an Ivy League institution.

Why We’re Losing Liberty

– Prager University online course, published September 7, 2015, YouTube.
Was the Constitution written in a way that was designed to protect freedom and limit the government’s size? Has it been effective in doing that? And what’s the Supreme… More

Reporting on Religious Persecution: A Global Challenge

– Panel discussion at the Newseum Institute, with panelists Katrina Lantos Swett, Libby Liu, Asia Akbar Shahid Ahmed, Former U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf, and Tom Gjelten, September 21, 2015, YouTube.
Journalists and activist organizations reporting on the persecution of religious minorities around the world face challenges and dangers. This panel discussion features journalists and… More

C-SPAN Appearances

– C-SPAN.
Follow the link to all of Robert George’s video lectures and discussions of religious freedom, U.S. foreign policy, immigration, the Constitution and more.

Why I Wanted to Debate Peter Singer

– Wall Street Journal, Dec 18, 2016.
Excerpt: If you are a student at a college or university, you are there to learn—from the faculty, from the speakers who visit campus, and from each other. It is a precious opportunity.… More

On Peter Simpson on “Illiberal Liberalism”

– The American Journal of Jurisprudence, Volume 62, Issue 1, 1 June 2017, pp. 103–110.
Abstract: Is “liberalism,” as the term is used by leading contemporary self-described liberals such as the late John Rawls and the late Ronald Dworkin, and as put into practice by the… More

Multimedia

Religious Liberty and Political Morality

– In Stephen Krason and Donald D'Elia (eds.), We Hold These Truths and More: Reflections on the American Proposition (University of Steubenville Press, 1993).

In Defense of Natural Law

– Oxford University Press, 1999.
Description from Publisher: In Making Men Moral, his 1995 book, George questioned the central doctrines of liberal jurisprudence and political theory. In his new work he extends his… More

Religious Values and Politics

– In Francis A. Eigo (ed.), Religious Values at the Threshold of the Third Millennium (Villanova University Press, 1999), with William Saunders.

Reason, Freedom, and the Rule of Law

– American Journal of Jurisprudence 46 (2001). Reprinted in the American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Law 1:1 (Fall 2001), Regent University Law Review 15:2 (2002-2003), Charles W. Dunn (ed.), Faith, Freedom, and the Future:  Religion in American Political Culture (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), The Clarion Review 2 (2004), and Michael  A. Scaperlanda and Teresa Stanton Collet (eds.), Recovering Self-Evident Truths:  Catholic Perspectives on American Law (Catholic University of America Press, 2007).
The idea of law and the ideal of the rule of law are central to the natural law tradition of thought about public (or “political”) order. St. Thomas Aquinas went so far as to… More

Barring Faith

– The Weekly Standard, July 17, 2006, with Gerald V. Bradley
TO FULLY APPRECIATE the wrong headedness of a federal district court’s recent decision expelling a faith-based program from an Iowa prison, it is necessary first to take a backward… More

Solomonic Wisdom

– National Review, August 16, 2010, with Matthew J. Franck.
n June 28, the Senate Judiciary Committee began hearings on Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court nomination. On the same day, the Court announced its decision in Christian Legal Society v.… More

Religious liberty and the human good

– International Journal of Religious Freedom 5:1 (2012).
Abstract: “Religious liberty and the human good” is a defense of a robust conception of the obligations of governments to respect and protect religious freedom for the sake of the… More

Religious Liberty and the Human Good, The Conversation

– Institute for American Values, May 29, 2012, YouTube.
From “Religious Liberty and the Human Good” a conversation with Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University. Hosted by David Blankenhorn,… More

Religious Liberty and the Human Good

– Lecture at the University of New Orleans, January 24, 2013, published by Chris Surprenant, YouTube.
This talk took place on 1/24/2013 at the University of New Orleans as part of the Tocqueville Project’s Lectures on Liberty series. For more information, please visit… More

Reason, Morality, and Law: The Philosophy of John Finnis

– With John Keown, eds. Oxford University Press, 2013.
Description from Publisher: John Finnis is a pioneer in the development of a new yet classically-grounded theory of natural law. His work offers a systematic philosophy of practical… More

Religious Freedom is About More Than Religion

– Wall Street Journal, July 25, 2013, with Katrina Lantos Swett.
A common theory about freedom of religion suggests that such a value is grounded in a modus vivendi, or compromise: People agree to respect each other’s freedom in order to avoid… More

Pakistan’s Religious Minority Problem

– Foreign Policy, August 9, 2013.
On Sunday, August 11, Pakistan will celebrate National Minorities Day, giving recently-elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif his first formal opportunity to recognize the value of religious… More

The U.S.’s Lagging Commitment to Religious Freedom

– Washington Post, August 21, 2013, with Katrina Lantos Swett.
Although religious freedom is a pivotal human right, critical to national security and global stability, key provisions of the landmark International Religious Freedom Act are being… More

Liberty and Conscience

– National Affairs, Fall 2013.
One of the more dubious achievements of the Obama administration has been to put religious freedom and the rights of conscience back on the agenda in American politics. Most notoriously,… More

Dr. Robert P. George on His Letter to the President

– NewsmaxTV, September 25, 2013, YouTube.
Dr. Robert P. George, Chairman of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, joins Steve to discuss his letter to the President about attacks committed against… More

2014 Cardinal O’Connor Keynote

– Georgetown University, January 20, 2014, YouTube.
The Keynote Address by Robert P. George, Princeton’s McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, is entitled, “Abortion and the Attack on Conscience” and took place on January… More

Religious Exemptions are Vital for Religious Liberty

– Wall Street Journal, March 23, 2014, with Hamza Yusuf.
The United States is one of the most religiously diverse nations on earth. People of a vast array of traditions of faith live here in a harmony that would have been unthinkable in most of… More

10th Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast

– Guest speaker at the 10th annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, Washington, DC, May 13, 2014, published by the American Principles Project, YouTube.
Robert George speaks at the Catholic National Prayer Breakfast on the trials of being a faithful christian in the modern world.

Iran’s Forgotten Prisoners of Conscience

– Wall Street Journal, May 19, 2014, with Katrina Lantos Swett.
As Iran approaches the anniversary of Hasan Rouhani’s presidential victory, the Islamic Republic’s human-rights record, particularly its treatment of religious minorities,… More

Supporting Religious Freedom

– Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, May 30, 2014.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), of which I am Chairman, released its 2014 Annual Report on April 30. As in previous years, the report analyzed the… More

A Reflection on U.S. International Religious Freedom Policy

– Council on Foreign Relations, panel discussion, June 19, 2014.
Princeton University’s Robert P. George leads a conversation on U.S. international religious freedom policy fifteen years after the International Religious Freedom Act, as part of… More

Faith, Sex, and Freedom

– Speech at Love and Fidelity Network's Seventh Annual National Conference on Sexuality, Integrity, and the University, Princeton University, November 8, 2014, YouTube.
Professor George will discuss the threats posed by the legal recognition of same-sex partnerships as “marriages,” especially when combined with “Sexual Orientation and… More

Russia’s Extremism Law Violates Human Rights

– The Moscow Times, November 26, 2014, with Katrina Lantos Swett.
Last Friday, a video deemed offensive to the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church was ruled “extremist” by a city court in Vladimir. While Alexander… More

Robert P. George’s Wilberforce Award Speech

– Colson Center, published June 11, 2015, YouTube.
Dr. Robert P. George, recipient of the 2015 William Wilberforce Award, speaks on standing up for Christian values in an Ivy League institution.

Why We’re Losing Liberty

– Prager University online course, published September 7, 2015, YouTube.
Was the Constitution written in a way that was designed to protect freedom and limit the government’s size? Has it been effective in doing that? And what’s the Supreme… More

Reporting on Religious Persecution: A Global Challenge

– Panel discussion at the Newseum Institute, with panelists Katrina Lantos Swett, Libby Liu, Asia Akbar Shahid Ahmed, Former U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf, and Tom Gjelten, September 21, 2015, YouTube.
Journalists and activist organizations reporting on the persecution of religious minorities around the world face challenges and dangers. This panel discussion features journalists and… More

C-SPAN Appearances

– C-SPAN.
Follow the link to all of Robert George’s video lectures and discussions of religious freedom, U.S. foreign policy, immigration, the Constitution and more.

Why I Wanted to Debate Peter Singer

– Wall Street Journal, Dec 18, 2016.
Excerpt: If you are a student at a college or university, you are there to learn—from the faculty, from the speakers who visit campus, and from each other. It is a precious opportunity.… More

On Peter Simpson on “Illiberal Liberalism”

– The American Journal of Jurisprudence, Volume 62, Issue 1, 1 June 2017, pp. 103–110.
Abstract: Is “liberalism,” as the term is used by leading contemporary self-described liberals such as the late John Rawls and the late Ronald Dworkin, and as put into practice by the… More

Teaching

Religious Liberty and Political Morality

– In Stephen Krason and Donald D'Elia (eds.), We Hold These Truths and More: Reflections on the American Proposition (University of Steubenville Press, 1993).

In Defense of Natural Law

– Oxford University Press, 1999.
Description from Publisher: In Making Men Moral, his 1995 book, George questioned the central doctrines of liberal jurisprudence and political theory. In his new work he extends his… More

Religious Values and Politics

– In Francis A. Eigo (ed.), Religious Values at the Threshold of the Third Millennium (Villanova University Press, 1999), with William Saunders.

Reason, Freedom, and the Rule of Law

– American Journal of Jurisprudence 46 (2001). Reprinted in the American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Law 1:1 (Fall 2001), Regent University Law Review 15:2 (2002-2003), Charles W. Dunn (ed.), Faith, Freedom, and the Future:  Religion in American Political Culture (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), The Clarion Review 2 (2004), and Michael  A. Scaperlanda and Teresa Stanton Collet (eds.), Recovering Self-Evident Truths:  Catholic Perspectives on American Law (Catholic University of America Press, 2007).
The idea of law and the ideal of the rule of law are central to the natural law tradition of thought about public (or “political”) order. St. Thomas Aquinas went so far as to… More

Barring Faith

– The Weekly Standard, July 17, 2006, with Gerald V. Bradley
TO FULLY APPRECIATE the wrong headedness of a federal district court’s recent decision expelling a faith-based program from an Iowa prison, it is necessary first to take a backward… More

Solomonic Wisdom

– National Review, August 16, 2010, with Matthew J. Franck.
n June 28, the Senate Judiciary Committee began hearings on Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court nomination. On the same day, the Court announced its decision in Christian Legal Society v.… More

Religious liberty and the human good

– International Journal of Religious Freedom 5:1 (2012).
Abstract: “Religious liberty and the human good” is a defense of a robust conception of the obligations of governments to respect and protect religious freedom for the sake of the… More

Religious Liberty and the Human Good, The Conversation

– Institute for American Values, May 29, 2012, YouTube.
From “Religious Liberty and the Human Good” a conversation with Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University. Hosted by David Blankenhorn,… More

Religious Liberty and the Human Good

– Lecture at the University of New Orleans, January 24, 2013, published by Chris Surprenant, YouTube.
This talk took place on 1/24/2013 at the University of New Orleans as part of the Tocqueville Project’s Lectures on Liberty series. For more information, please visit… More

Reason, Morality, and Law: The Philosophy of John Finnis

– With John Keown, eds. Oxford University Press, 2013.
Description from Publisher: John Finnis is a pioneer in the development of a new yet classically-grounded theory of natural law. His work offers a systematic philosophy of practical… More

Religious Freedom is About More Than Religion

– Wall Street Journal, July 25, 2013, with Katrina Lantos Swett.
A common theory about freedom of religion suggests that such a value is grounded in a modus vivendi, or compromise: People agree to respect each other’s freedom in order to avoid… More

Pakistan’s Religious Minority Problem

– Foreign Policy, August 9, 2013.
On Sunday, August 11, Pakistan will celebrate National Minorities Day, giving recently-elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif his first formal opportunity to recognize the value of religious… More

The U.S.’s Lagging Commitment to Religious Freedom

– Washington Post, August 21, 2013, with Katrina Lantos Swett.
Although religious freedom is a pivotal human right, critical to national security and global stability, key provisions of the landmark International Religious Freedom Act are being… More

Liberty and Conscience

– National Affairs, Fall 2013.
One of the more dubious achievements of the Obama administration has been to put religious freedom and the rights of conscience back on the agenda in American politics. Most notoriously,… More

Dr. Robert P. George on His Letter to the President

– NewsmaxTV, September 25, 2013, YouTube.
Dr. Robert P. George, Chairman of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, joins Steve to discuss his letter to the President about attacks committed against… More

2014 Cardinal O’Connor Keynote

– Georgetown University, January 20, 2014, YouTube.
The Keynote Address by Robert P. George, Princeton’s McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, is entitled, “Abortion and the Attack on Conscience” and took place on January… More

Religious Exemptions are Vital for Religious Liberty

– Wall Street Journal, March 23, 2014, with Hamza Yusuf.
The United States is one of the most religiously diverse nations on earth. People of a vast array of traditions of faith live here in a harmony that would have been unthinkable in most of… More

10th Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast

– Guest speaker at the 10th annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, Washington, DC, May 13, 2014, published by the American Principles Project, YouTube.
Robert George speaks at the Catholic National Prayer Breakfast on the trials of being a faithful christian in the modern world.

Iran’s Forgotten Prisoners of Conscience

– Wall Street Journal, May 19, 2014, with Katrina Lantos Swett.
As Iran approaches the anniversary of Hasan Rouhani’s presidential victory, the Islamic Republic’s human-rights record, particularly its treatment of religious minorities,… More

Supporting Religious Freedom

– Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, May 30, 2014.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), of which I am Chairman, released its 2014 Annual Report on April 30. As in previous years, the report analyzed the… More

A Reflection on U.S. International Religious Freedom Policy

– Council on Foreign Relations, panel discussion, June 19, 2014.
Princeton University’s Robert P. George leads a conversation on U.S. international religious freedom policy fifteen years after the International Religious Freedom Act, as part of… More

Faith, Sex, and Freedom

– Speech at Love and Fidelity Network's Seventh Annual National Conference on Sexuality, Integrity, and the University, Princeton University, November 8, 2014, YouTube.
Professor George will discuss the threats posed by the legal recognition of same-sex partnerships as “marriages,” especially when combined with “Sexual Orientation and… More

Russia’s Extremism Law Violates Human Rights

– The Moscow Times, November 26, 2014, with Katrina Lantos Swett.
Last Friday, a video deemed offensive to the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church was ruled “extremist” by a city court in Vladimir. While Alexander… More

Robert P. George’s Wilberforce Award Speech

– Colson Center, published June 11, 2015, YouTube.
Dr. Robert P. George, recipient of the 2015 William Wilberforce Award, speaks on standing up for Christian values in an Ivy League institution.

Why We’re Losing Liberty

– Prager University online course, published September 7, 2015, YouTube.
Was the Constitution written in a way that was designed to protect freedom and limit the government’s size? Has it been effective in doing that? And what’s the Supreme… More

Reporting on Religious Persecution: A Global Challenge

– Panel discussion at the Newseum Institute, with panelists Katrina Lantos Swett, Libby Liu, Asia Akbar Shahid Ahmed, Former U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf, and Tom Gjelten, September 21, 2015, YouTube.
Journalists and activist organizations reporting on the persecution of religious minorities around the world face challenges and dangers. This panel discussion features journalists and… More

C-SPAN Appearances

– C-SPAN.
Follow the link to all of Robert George’s video lectures and discussions of religious freedom, U.S. foreign policy, immigration, the Constitution and more.

Why I Wanted to Debate Peter Singer

– Wall Street Journal, Dec 18, 2016.
Excerpt: If you are a student at a college or university, you are there to learn—from the faculty, from the speakers who visit campus, and from each other. It is a precious opportunity.… More

On Peter Simpson on “Illiberal Liberalism”

– The American Journal of Jurisprudence, Volume 62, Issue 1, 1 June 2017, pp. 103–110.
Abstract: Is “liberalism,” as the term is used by leading contemporary self-described liberals such as the late John Rawls and the late Ronald Dworkin, and as put into practice by the… More