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Books

Restricting Reasons, Attenuating Discourse: Rawls, Habermas, and the Catholic Problem

– In Daniel N. Robinson, Gladys M. Sweeney, and Richard Gill (eds.), Human Nature and Its Wholeness (Catholic University of America Press, 2006). Reprinted with abridgments and additions as “Public Morality, Public Reason,” First Things, November, 2006.
A contest of worldviews in our time pits devout Catholics, Protestants, Jews, and other believers against secularist liberals and those who, while remaining within the religious… More

Slouching Towards Gomorrah Revisited

– Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 31:2 (March 2008).
Abstract: A literary criticism of the book “Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline,” by Robert H. Bork is presented. It praises the accuracy of the… More

Matters of Principle: Unconstitutional Judicial Activism

– American Principles in Action, published August 5, 2009, YouTube.
Dr. Robert George, Founder of the American Principles Project, discusses the ways in which judicial activism has intruded upon the Constitution. For more information, visit our website at… More

God and Gettysburg

– First Things, August 2010.
The Declaration of Independence, the Gettysburg Address, and the Constitution of the United States of America”those were the three texts in the blue pamphlet I found on the table in front… More

Marriage and Politics

– National Review, February 11, 2013.
In our new book What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense, we make a rational case for the historic understanding of marriage as a conjugal relationship — a union of a man and a woman at… More

Ruling to Serve

– First Things, April 2013.
Those of us who are citizens of liberal democratic regimes do not refer to those who govern as “rulers.” It is our boast that we rule ourselves. We prefer to speak of those who govern… 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

Remarks on the Future of the Pro-Life Movement

– The SpeakOut Illinois 2015 conference, Illinois Family Institute, January 31, 2015, YouTube.
Professor Robert George, renowned scholar on religious liberty at Princeton University, spoke with IFI’s Monte Larrick at the recent pro-life SpeakOut Illinois conference.

The Case Against Divestment at Princeton University

– Princeton University, April 16, 2015, published by Jeremy Rosenthal, YouTube.
Professor Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, speaking as part of the panel discussion held at Princeton on April 16th, 2015. The full panel… More

Consequences of an Idea: The Social Cost of Redefining Marriage

– AWC Family Foundation Lecture at Hillsdale College, June 23, 2015, YouTube.
Advocates of redefining marriage assured the public that their proposal would injure no one’s rights or interests. Today it is clear that this is the very reverse of the truth. What are… More

The Constitution and Morality

– Eighth Annual Rosenkranz Debate at Federalist Society’s 2015 National Lawyers Convention, with John O. McGinnis, moderated by Hon. William H. Pryor Jr., introduced by Eugene B. Meyer, Washington DC, November 14, 2015, YouTube.

Essays

Restricting Reasons, Attenuating Discourse: Rawls, Habermas, and the Catholic Problem

– In Daniel N. Robinson, Gladys M. Sweeney, and Richard Gill (eds.), Human Nature and Its Wholeness (Catholic University of America Press, 2006). Reprinted with abridgments and additions as “Public Morality, Public Reason,” First Things, November, 2006.
A contest of worldviews in our time pits devout Catholics, Protestants, Jews, and other believers against secularist liberals and those who, while remaining within the religious… More

Slouching Towards Gomorrah Revisited

– Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 31:2 (March 2008).
Abstract: A literary criticism of the book “Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline,” by Robert H. Bork is presented. It praises the accuracy of the… More

Matters of Principle: Unconstitutional Judicial Activism

– American Principles in Action, published August 5, 2009, YouTube.
Dr. Robert George, Founder of the American Principles Project, discusses the ways in which judicial activism has intruded upon the Constitution. For more information, visit our website at… More

God and Gettysburg

– First Things, August 2010.
The Declaration of Independence, the Gettysburg Address, and the Constitution of the United States of America”those were the three texts in the blue pamphlet I found on the table in front… More

Marriage and Politics

– National Review, February 11, 2013.
In our new book What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense, we make a rational case for the historic understanding of marriage as a conjugal relationship — a union of a man and a woman at… More

Ruling to Serve

– First Things, April 2013.
Those of us who are citizens of liberal democratic regimes do not refer to those who govern as “rulers.” It is our boast that we rule ourselves. We prefer to speak of those who govern… 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

Remarks on the Future of the Pro-Life Movement

– The SpeakOut Illinois 2015 conference, Illinois Family Institute, January 31, 2015, YouTube.
Professor Robert George, renowned scholar on religious liberty at Princeton University, spoke with IFI’s Monte Larrick at the recent pro-life SpeakOut Illinois conference.

The Case Against Divestment at Princeton University

– Princeton University, April 16, 2015, published by Jeremy Rosenthal, YouTube.
Professor Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, speaking as part of the panel discussion held at Princeton on April 16th, 2015. The full panel… More

Consequences of an Idea: The Social Cost of Redefining Marriage

– AWC Family Foundation Lecture at Hillsdale College, June 23, 2015, YouTube.
Advocates of redefining marriage assured the public that their proposal would injure no one’s rights or interests. Today it is clear that this is the very reverse of the truth. What are… More

The Constitution and Morality

– Eighth Annual Rosenkranz Debate at Federalist Society’s 2015 National Lawyers Convention, with John O. McGinnis, moderated by Hon. William H. Pryor Jr., introduced by Eugene B. Meyer, Washington DC, November 14, 2015, YouTube.

Commentary

Restricting Reasons, Attenuating Discourse: Rawls, Habermas, and the Catholic Problem

– In Daniel N. Robinson, Gladys M. Sweeney, and Richard Gill (eds.), Human Nature and Its Wholeness (Catholic University of America Press, 2006). Reprinted with abridgments and additions as “Public Morality, Public Reason,” First Things, November, 2006.
A contest of worldviews in our time pits devout Catholics, Protestants, Jews, and other believers against secularist liberals and those who, while remaining within the religious… More

Slouching Towards Gomorrah Revisited

– Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 31:2 (March 2008).
Abstract: A literary criticism of the book “Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline,” by Robert H. Bork is presented. It praises the accuracy of the… More

Matters of Principle: Unconstitutional Judicial Activism

– American Principles in Action, published August 5, 2009, YouTube.
Dr. Robert George, Founder of the American Principles Project, discusses the ways in which judicial activism has intruded upon the Constitution. For more information, visit our website at… More

God and Gettysburg

– First Things, August 2010.
The Declaration of Independence, the Gettysburg Address, and the Constitution of the United States of America”those were the three texts in the blue pamphlet I found on the table in front… More

Marriage and Politics

– National Review, February 11, 2013.
In our new book What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense, we make a rational case for the historic understanding of marriage as a conjugal relationship — a union of a man and a woman at… More

Ruling to Serve

– First Things, April 2013.
Those of us who are citizens of liberal democratic regimes do not refer to those who govern as “rulers.” It is our boast that we rule ourselves. We prefer to speak of those who govern… 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

Remarks on the Future of the Pro-Life Movement

– The SpeakOut Illinois 2015 conference, Illinois Family Institute, January 31, 2015, YouTube.
Professor Robert George, renowned scholar on religious liberty at Princeton University, spoke with IFI’s Monte Larrick at the recent pro-life SpeakOut Illinois conference.

The Case Against Divestment at Princeton University

– Princeton University, April 16, 2015, published by Jeremy Rosenthal, YouTube.
Professor Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, speaking as part of the panel discussion held at Princeton on April 16th, 2015. The full panel… More

Consequences of an Idea: The Social Cost of Redefining Marriage

– AWC Family Foundation Lecture at Hillsdale College, June 23, 2015, YouTube.
Advocates of redefining marriage assured the public that their proposal would injure no one’s rights or interests. Today it is clear that this is the very reverse of the truth. What are… More

The Constitution and Morality

– Eighth Annual Rosenkranz Debate at Federalist Society’s 2015 National Lawyers Convention, with John O. McGinnis, moderated by Hon. William H. Pryor Jr., introduced by Eugene B. Meyer, Washington DC, November 14, 2015, YouTube.

Multimedia

Restricting Reasons, Attenuating Discourse: Rawls, Habermas, and the Catholic Problem

– In Daniel N. Robinson, Gladys M. Sweeney, and Richard Gill (eds.), Human Nature and Its Wholeness (Catholic University of America Press, 2006). Reprinted with abridgments and additions as “Public Morality, Public Reason,” First Things, November, 2006.
A contest of worldviews in our time pits devout Catholics, Protestants, Jews, and other believers against secularist liberals and those who, while remaining within the religious… More

Slouching Towards Gomorrah Revisited

– Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 31:2 (March 2008).
Abstract: A literary criticism of the book “Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline,” by Robert H. Bork is presented. It praises the accuracy of the… More

Matters of Principle: Unconstitutional Judicial Activism

– American Principles in Action, published August 5, 2009, YouTube.
Dr. Robert George, Founder of the American Principles Project, discusses the ways in which judicial activism has intruded upon the Constitution. For more information, visit our website at… More

God and Gettysburg

– First Things, August 2010.
The Declaration of Independence, the Gettysburg Address, and the Constitution of the United States of America”those were the three texts in the blue pamphlet I found on the table in front… More

Marriage and Politics

– National Review, February 11, 2013.
In our new book What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense, we make a rational case for the historic understanding of marriage as a conjugal relationship — a union of a man and a woman at… More

Ruling to Serve

– First Things, April 2013.
Those of us who are citizens of liberal democratic regimes do not refer to those who govern as “rulers.” It is our boast that we rule ourselves. We prefer to speak of those who govern… 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

Remarks on the Future of the Pro-Life Movement

– The SpeakOut Illinois 2015 conference, Illinois Family Institute, January 31, 2015, YouTube.
Professor Robert George, renowned scholar on religious liberty at Princeton University, spoke with IFI’s Monte Larrick at the recent pro-life SpeakOut Illinois conference.

The Case Against Divestment at Princeton University

– Princeton University, April 16, 2015, published by Jeremy Rosenthal, YouTube.
Professor Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, speaking as part of the panel discussion held at Princeton on April 16th, 2015. The full panel… More

Consequences of an Idea: The Social Cost of Redefining Marriage

– AWC Family Foundation Lecture at Hillsdale College, June 23, 2015, YouTube.
Advocates of redefining marriage assured the public that their proposal would injure no one’s rights or interests. Today it is clear that this is the very reverse of the truth. What are… More

The Constitution and Morality

– Eighth Annual Rosenkranz Debate at Federalist Society’s 2015 National Lawyers Convention, with John O. McGinnis, moderated by Hon. William H. Pryor Jr., introduced by Eugene B. Meyer, Washington DC, November 14, 2015, YouTube.

Teaching

Restricting Reasons, Attenuating Discourse: Rawls, Habermas, and the Catholic Problem

– In Daniel N. Robinson, Gladys M. Sweeney, and Richard Gill (eds.), Human Nature and Its Wholeness (Catholic University of America Press, 2006). Reprinted with abridgments and additions as “Public Morality, Public Reason,” First Things, November, 2006.
A contest of worldviews in our time pits devout Catholics, Protestants, Jews, and other believers against secularist liberals and those who, while remaining within the religious… More

Slouching Towards Gomorrah Revisited

– Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 31:2 (March 2008).
Abstract: A literary criticism of the book “Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline,” by Robert H. Bork is presented. It praises the accuracy of the… More

Matters of Principle: Unconstitutional Judicial Activism

– American Principles in Action, published August 5, 2009, YouTube.
Dr. Robert George, Founder of the American Principles Project, discusses the ways in which judicial activism has intruded upon the Constitution. For more information, visit our website at… More

God and Gettysburg

– First Things, August 2010.
The Declaration of Independence, the Gettysburg Address, and the Constitution of the United States of America”those were the three texts in the blue pamphlet I found on the table in front… More

Marriage and Politics

– National Review, February 11, 2013.
In our new book What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense, we make a rational case for the historic understanding of marriage as a conjugal relationship — a union of a man and a woman at… More

Ruling to Serve

– First Things, April 2013.
Those of us who are citizens of liberal democratic regimes do not refer to those who govern as “rulers.” It is our boast that we rule ourselves. We prefer to speak of those who govern… 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

Remarks on the Future of the Pro-Life Movement

– The SpeakOut Illinois 2015 conference, Illinois Family Institute, January 31, 2015, YouTube.
Professor Robert George, renowned scholar on religious liberty at Princeton University, spoke with IFI’s Monte Larrick at the recent pro-life SpeakOut Illinois conference.

The Case Against Divestment at Princeton University

– Princeton University, April 16, 2015, published by Jeremy Rosenthal, YouTube.
Professor Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, speaking as part of the panel discussion held at Princeton on April 16th, 2015. The full panel… More

Consequences of an Idea: The Social Cost of Redefining Marriage

– AWC Family Foundation Lecture at Hillsdale College, June 23, 2015, YouTube.
Advocates of redefining marriage assured the public that their proposal would injure no one’s rights or interests. Today it is clear that this is the very reverse of the truth. What are… More

The Constitution and Morality

– Eighth Annual Rosenkranz Debate at Federalist Society’s 2015 National Lawyers Convention, with John O. McGinnis, moderated by Hon. William H. Pryor Jr., introduced by Eugene B. Meyer, Washington DC, November 14, 2015, YouTube.