Books
Life as an Evil; Death as a Good: Dualism and Callahan’s Inversion
– In Gerard Bradley and Robert Barry (eds.), Set No Limits: A Rebuttal to Daniel Callahan's Proposal to Limit Health Care for the Elderly (University of Illinois Press, 1991).The Moral Status of the Human Embryo
– Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 48:2 (Spring 2005), with Alfonso Gómez-Lobo. First published as "Statement of Professor George" in Leon R. Kass (ed.), Human Cloning and Human Dignity: The Report of the President's Council On Bioethics (Public Affairs, 2002), pp. 294-306; and Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry (The President’s Council on Bioethics, 2002).The subject matter of Human Cloning and Human Dignity (President’s Council 2002) is the production of a human embryo by means of somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) or similar… More
The Wrong of Abortion
– In Andrew I. Cohen and Christopher H. Wellman (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics (Blackwell Publishers, 2005), with Patrick Lee. Reprinted in Carol Levine (ed.), Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Bioethical Issues, 11th edition (McGraw-Hill Publishers, 2006).Much of the public debate about abortion concerns the question whether deliberate feticide ought to be unlawful, at least in most circumstances. We will lay that question aside here in… More
Natural Law and Human Rights: A Conversation
– In Elizabeth Bucar and Barbra Barnette (eds.), Does Human Rights Need God? (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2005).Seeking Consensus: A Clarification and Defense of Altered Nuclear Transfer
– Hastings Center Report 36:5 (September-October 2006), with William Hurlbut and Markus Grompe.Since 1998, when human embryonic stem cellswere first isolated, our nation has been locked ina conflict over federal funding of this new field of scientific research. Both sides in the… More
Robby George on the Banjo
– Published June 24, 2008 by nnlp35, YouTube.Robert George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, plays the banjo after the First Things board meeting in 2008.
The Nature and Basis of Human Dignity
– Ratio Juris 21:2 (June 2008), with Patrick Lee.Abstract: We argue that all human beings have a special type of dignity which is the basis for (1) the obligation all of us have not to kill them, (2) the obligation to take their… More
Robby George Performs “Hallelujah”
– December 25, 2008, published by GeorgeFamilySings's channel, YouTube.Hannah, Rachel, and Robert George sing “Hallelujah,” Christmas 2008.
Embryonic human persons: Talking Point on morality and human embryo research
– EMBO Reports 10:4 (April 2009), with Patrick Lee.If, as we believe, human embryos are human beings who deserve the same basic respect we accord to human beings at later developmental stages, then research that involves deliberately… More
What’s Wrong with the West?
– In Gudrun and Martin Kugler (eds.), Exiting a Dead End Road (Kairos, 2010), with William Saunders.Robert George and Cornel West on Bloggingheads
– Princeton University, published December 15, 2010, bloggingheads.tv.Robert George and Cornel West discuss irreducible human dignity, how to keep power from corrupting , the evil of greed, why the left is on the wrong side of history when it come to… More
Natural Law, God, and Human Dignity
– Gospel and Culture Lecture at the Center for Faith & Work, March 20, 2011, YouTube.Natural law theorists believe that since all humans are made in the image of God, every person possesses irreducible capacities for rationality, freedom, and moral discernment. Natural law… More
Remarks on American Exceptionalism
– National Review, September 5, 2011, YouTube.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
Natural Law, God, and Human Dignity
– In Jesse Covington, Bryan McGraw, and Micah Watson (eds.), Natural Law and Evangelical Political Thought (Lexington Books, 2013).Robby George plays “County Clare”
– Published by Matt Franck, June 1, 2013, YouTube.Dignity and Marriage
– In Christopher McCrudden (ed.), Understanding Human Dignity (Oxford UP/The British Academy, 2014).Ethics of Euthanasia and Letting Children Choose to Die
– CNN, November 27, 2013, published by Latest News, YouTube.Robert P. George Trio – Bluegrass
– With Michael Smith on guitar and David George on bass, published by Cafe Improv, August 23, 2014, YouTube.Guitarist Michael Smith and guitarist-and-banjo-player Robby George offer an eclectic mix of American music from bluegrass instrumentals, to popular standards, to 60s folk numbers. They… More
Robert P. George Trio – The Flint Hill Special
– With Michael Smith on guitar and David George on bass, published by Cafe Improv, August 23, 2014, YouTube.Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right, with lyrics – Robert P. George Trio
– With Michael Smith on guitar and David George on bass, published by Cafe Improv, August 23, 2014, YouTube.Lyrics: It ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe It don’t matter, anyhow An’ it ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe If you don’t know by now When your rooster crows at the… More
The Ontological Status of Embryos: A Reply to Jason Morris
– Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 39:5 (2014), with Patrick Lee and Christopher Tollefsen.Abstract: In various places we have defended the position that a new human organism, that is, an individual member of the human species, comes to be at fertilization, the union of the… 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
Hauenstein Center American Conversations: Robert P. George and Cornel West
– A Dialogue on "A Workable Armistice in the Culture Wars," between keynote speakers, Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies, Grand Valley State University, April 2, 2015, YouTube.Professors Robert P. George and Cornel West visited GVSU for the Hauenstein Center’s final American Conversations keynote of the 2014-2015 season. Their talk “A Workable… More
The Cost of Freedom: How Disagreement Makes Us Civil (Robert George, Cornel West, Rick Warren)
– Bioloa University, April 30, 2015, YouTube.Getting along through disagreement is never easy. Preserving the freedom to think and learn and grow comes with a cost. But what if the disagreement itself is valuable for us? What if the… 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.
Five Pillars of a Decent and Dynamic Society
– In James R. Stoner, Jr. and Harold James (eds.), The Thriving Society: On The Social Conditions of Human Flourishing (The Witherspoon Institute, 2015). First presented as the keynote address at John Paul II Australian Leaders Forum, Sydney, August 2012; Lecture in the Loyola University’s Centennial Celebration, March 2013; Keynote address at Sutherland Institute's 2013 Annual Dinner, April 2013; Lecture at Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture, September 2013.Essays
Life as an Evil; Death as a Good: Dualism and Callahan’s Inversion
– In Gerard Bradley and Robert Barry (eds.), Set No Limits: A Rebuttal to Daniel Callahan's Proposal to Limit Health Care for the Elderly (University of Illinois Press, 1991).The Moral Status of the Human Embryo
– Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 48:2 (Spring 2005), with Alfonso Gómez-Lobo. First published as "Statement of Professor George" in Leon R. Kass (ed.), Human Cloning and Human Dignity: The Report of the President's Council On Bioethics (Public Affairs, 2002), pp. 294-306; and Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry (The President’s Council on Bioethics, 2002).The subject matter of Human Cloning and Human Dignity (President’s Council 2002) is the production of a human embryo by means of somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) or similar… More
The Wrong of Abortion
– In Andrew I. Cohen and Christopher H. Wellman (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics (Blackwell Publishers, 2005), with Patrick Lee. Reprinted in Carol Levine (ed.), Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Bioethical Issues, 11th edition (McGraw-Hill Publishers, 2006).Much of the public debate about abortion concerns the question whether deliberate feticide ought to be unlawful, at least in most circumstances. We will lay that question aside here in… More
Natural Law and Human Rights: A Conversation
– In Elizabeth Bucar and Barbra Barnette (eds.), Does Human Rights Need God? (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2005).Seeking Consensus: A Clarification and Defense of Altered Nuclear Transfer
– Hastings Center Report 36:5 (September-October 2006), with William Hurlbut and Markus Grompe.Since 1998, when human embryonic stem cellswere first isolated, our nation has been locked ina conflict over federal funding of this new field of scientific research. Both sides in the… More
Robby George on the Banjo
– Published June 24, 2008 by nnlp35, YouTube.Robert George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, plays the banjo after the First Things board meeting in 2008.
The Nature and Basis of Human Dignity
– Ratio Juris 21:2 (June 2008), with Patrick Lee.Abstract: We argue that all human beings have a special type of dignity which is the basis for (1) the obligation all of us have not to kill them, (2) the obligation to take their… More
Robby George Performs “Hallelujah”
– December 25, 2008, published by GeorgeFamilySings's channel, YouTube.Hannah, Rachel, and Robert George sing “Hallelujah,” Christmas 2008.
Embryonic human persons: Talking Point on morality and human embryo research
– EMBO Reports 10:4 (April 2009), with Patrick Lee.If, as we believe, human embryos are human beings who deserve the same basic respect we accord to human beings at later developmental stages, then research that involves deliberately… More
What’s Wrong with the West?
– In Gudrun and Martin Kugler (eds.), Exiting a Dead End Road (Kairos, 2010), with William Saunders.Robert George and Cornel West on Bloggingheads
– Princeton University, published December 15, 2010, bloggingheads.tv.Robert George and Cornel West discuss irreducible human dignity, how to keep power from corrupting , the evil of greed, why the left is on the wrong side of history when it come to… More
Natural Law, God, and Human Dignity
– Gospel and Culture Lecture at the Center for Faith & Work, March 20, 2011, YouTube.Natural law theorists believe that since all humans are made in the image of God, every person possesses irreducible capacities for rationality, freedom, and moral discernment. Natural law… More
Remarks on American Exceptionalism
– National Review, September 5, 2011, YouTube.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
Natural Law, God, and Human Dignity
– In Jesse Covington, Bryan McGraw, and Micah Watson (eds.), Natural Law and Evangelical Political Thought (Lexington Books, 2013).Robby George plays “County Clare”
– Published by Matt Franck, June 1, 2013, YouTube.Dignity and Marriage
– In Christopher McCrudden (ed.), Understanding Human Dignity (Oxford UP/The British Academy, 2014).Ethics of Euthanasia and Letting Children Choose to Die
– CNN, November 27, 2013, published by Latest News, YouTube.Robert P. George Trio – Bluegrass
– With Michael Smith on guitar and David George on bass, published by Cafe Improv, August 23, 2014, YouTube.Guitarist Michael Smith and guitarist-and-banjo-player Robby George offer an eclectic mix of American music from bluegrass instrumentals, to popular standards, to 60s folk numbers. They… More
Robert P. George Trio – The Flint Hill Special
– With Michael Smith on guitar and David George on bass, published by Cafe Improv, August 23, 2014, YouTube.Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right, with lyrics – Robert P. George Trio
– With Michael Smith on guitar and David George on bass, published by Cafe Improv, August 23, 2014, YouTube.Lyrics: It ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe It don’t matter, anyhow An’ it ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe If you don’t know by now When your rooster crows at the… More
The Ontological Status of Embryos: A Reply to Jason Morris
– Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 39:5 (2014), with Patrick Lee and Christopher Tollefsen.Abstract: In various places we have defended the position that a new human organism, that is, an individual member of the human species, comes to be at fertilization, the union of the… 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
Hauenstein Center American Conversations: Robert P. George and Cornel West
– A Dialogue on "A Workable Armistice in the Culture Wars," between keynote speakers, Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies, Grand Valley State University, April 2, 2015, YouTube.Professors Robert P. George and Cornel West visited GVSU for the Hauenstein Center’s final American Conversations keynote of the 2014-2015 season. Their talk “A Workable… More
The Cost of Freedom: How Disagreement Makes Us Civil (Robert George, Cornel West, Rick Warren)
– Bioloa University, April 30, 2015, YouTube.Getting along through disagreement is never easy. Preserving the freedom to think and learn and grow comes with a cost. But what if the disagreement itself is valuable for us? What if the… 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.
Five Pillars of a Decent and Dynamic Society
– In James R. Stoner, Jr. and Harold James (eds.), The Thriving Society: On The Social Conditions of Human Flourishing (The Witherspoon Institute, 2015). First presented as the keynote address at John Paul II Australian Leaders Forum, Sydney, August 2012; Lecture in the Loyola University’s Centennial Celebration, March 2013; Keynote address at Sutherland Institute's 2013 Annual Dinner, April 2013; Lecture at Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture, September 2013.Commentary
Life as an Evil; Death as a Good: Dualism and Callahan’s Inversion
– In Gerard Bradley and Robert Barry (eds.), Set No Limits: A Rebuttal to Daniel Callahan's Proposal to Limit Health Care for the Elderly (University of Illinois Press, 1991).The Moral Status of the Human Embryo
– Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 48:2 (Spring 2005), with Alfonso Gómez-Lobo. First published as "Statement of Professor George" in Leon R. Kass (ed.), Human Cloning and Human Dignity: The Report of the President's Council On Bioethics (Public Affairs, 2002), pp. 294-306; and Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry (The President’s Council on Bioethics, 2002).The subject matter of Human Cloning and Human Dignity (President’s Council 2002) is the production of a human embryo by means of somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) or similar… More
The Wrong of Abortion
– In Andrew I. Cohen and Christopher H. Wellman (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics (Blackwell Publishers, 2005), with Patrick Lee. Reprinted in Carol Levine (ed.), Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Bioethical Issues, 11th edition (McGraw-Hill Publishers, 2006).Much of the public debate about abortion concerns the question whether deliberate feticide ought to be unlawful, at least in most circumstances. We will lay that question aside here in… More
Natural Law and Human Rights: A Conversation
– In Elizabeth Bucar and Barbra Barnette (eds.), Does Human Rights Need God? (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2005).Seeking Consensus: A Clarification and Defense of Altered Nuclear Transfer
– Hastings Center Report 36:5 (September-October 2006), with William Hurlbut and Markus Grompe.Since 1998, when human embryonic stem cellswere first isolated, our nation has been locked ina conflict over federal funding of this new field of scientific research. Both sides in the… More
Robby George on the Banjo
– Published June 24, 2008 by nnlp35, YouTube.Robert George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, plays the banjo after the First Things board meeting in 2008.
The Nature and Basis of Human Dignity
– Ratio Juris 21:2 (June 2008), with Patrick Lee.Abstract: We argue that all human beings have a special type of dignity which is the basis for (1) the obligation all of us have not to kill them, (2) the obligation to take their… More
Robby George Performs “Hallelujah”
– December 25, 2008, published by GeorgeFamilySings's channel, YouTube.Hannah, Rachel, and Robert George sing “Hallelujah,” Christmas 2008.
Embryonic human persons: Talking Point on morality and human embryo research
– EMBO Reports 10:4 (April 2009), with Patrick Lee.If, as we believe, human embryos are human beings who deserve the same basic respect we accord to human beings at later developmental stages, then research that involves deliberately… More
What’s Wrong with the West?
– In Gudrun and Martin Kugler (eds.), Exiting a Dead End Road (Kairos, 2010), with William Saunders.Robert George and Cornel West on Bloggingheads
– Princeton University, published December 15, 2010, bloggingheads.tv.Robert George and Cornel West discuss irreducible human dignity, how to keep power from corrupting , the evil of greed, why the left is on the wrong side of history when it come to… More
Natural Law, God, and Human Dignity
– Gospel and Culture Lecture at the Center for Faith & Work, March 20, 2011, YouTube.Natural law theorists believe that since all humans are made in the image of God, every person possesses irreducible capacities for rationality, freedom, and moral discernment. Natural law… More
Remarks on American Exceptionalism
– National Review, September 5, 2011, YouTube.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
Natural Law, God, and Human Dignity
– In Jesse Covington, Bryan McGraw, and Micah Watson (eds.), Natural Law and Evangelical Political Thought (Lexington Books, 2013).Robby George plays “County Clare”
– Published by Matt Franck, June 1, 2013, YouTube.Dignity and Marriage
– In Christopher McCrudden (ed.), Understanding Human Dignity (Oxford UP/The British Academy, 2014).Ethics of Euthanasia and Letting Children Choose to Die
– CNN, November 27, 2013, published by Latest News, YouTube.Robert P. George Trio – Bluegrass
– With Michael Smith on guitar and David George on bass, published by Cafe Improv, August 23, 2014, YouTube.Guitarist Michael Smith and guitarist-and-banjo-player Robby George offer an eclectic mix of American music from bluegrass instrumentals, to popular standards, to 60s folk numbers. They… More
Robert P. George Trio – The Flint Hill Special
– With Michael Smith on guitar and David George on bass, published by Cafe Improv, August 23, 2014, YouTube.Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right, with lyrics – Robert P. George Trio
– With Michael Smith on guitar and David George on bass, published by Cafe Improv, August 23, 2014, YouTube.Lyrics: It ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe It don’t matter, anyhow An’ it ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe If you don’t know by now When your rooster crows at the… More
The Ontological Status of Embryos: A Reply to Jason Morris
– Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 39:5 (2014), with Patrick Lee and Christopher Tollefsen.Abstract: In various places we have defended the position that a new human organism, that is, an individual member of the human species, comes to be at fertilization, the union of the… 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
Hauenstein Center American Conversations: Robert P. George and Cornel West
– A Dialogue on "A Workable Armistice in the Culture Wars," between keynote speakers, Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies, Grand Valley State University, April 2, 2015, YouTube.Professors Robert P. George and Cornel West visited GVSU for the Hauenstein Center’s final American Conversations keynote of the 2014-2015 season. Their talk “A Workable… More
The Cost of Freedom: How Disagreement Makes Us Civil (Robert George, Cornel West, Rick Warren)
– Bioloa University, April 30, 2015, YouTube.Getting along through disagreement is never easy. Preserving the freedom to think and learn and grow comes with a cost. But what if the disagreement itself is valuable for us? What if the… 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.
Five Pillars of a Decent and Dynamic Society
– In James R. Stoner, Jr. and Harold James (eds.), The Thriving Society: On The Social Conditions of Human Flourishing (The Witherspoon Institute, 2015). First presented as the keynote address at John Paul II Australian Leaders Forum, Sydney, August 2012; Lecture in the Loyola University’s Centennial Celebration, March 2013; Keynote address at Sutherland Institute's 2013 Annual Dinner, April 2013; Lecture at Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture, September 2013.Multimedia
Life as an Evil; Death as a Good: Dualism and Callahan’s Inversion
– In Gerard Bradley and Robert Barry (eds.), Set No Limits: A Rebuttal to Daniel Callahan's Proposal to Limit Health Care for the Elderly (University of Illinois Press, 1991).The Moral Status of the Human Embryo
– Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 48:2 (Spring 2005), with Alfonso Gómez-Lobo. First published as "Statement of Professor George" in Leon R. Kass (ed.), Human Cloning and Human Dignity: The Report of the President's Council On Bioethics (Public Affairs, 2002), pp. 294-306; and Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry (The President’s Council on Bioethics, 2002).The subject matter of Human Cloning and Human Dignity (President’s Council 2002) is the production of a human embryo by means of somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) or similar… More
The Wrong of Abortion
– In Andrew I. Cohen and Christopher H. Wellman (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics (Blackwell Publishers, 2005), with Patrick Lee. Reprinted in Carol Levine (ed.), Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Bioethical Issues, 11th edition (McGraw-Hill Publishers, 2006).Much of the public debate about abortion concerns the question whether deliberate feticide ought to be unlawful, at least in most circumstances. We will lay that question aside here in… More
Natural Law and Human Rights: A Conversation
– In Elizabeth Bucar and Barbra Barnette (eds.), Does Human Rights Need God? (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2005).Seeking Consensus: A Clarification and Defense of Altered Nuclear Transfer
– Hastings Center Report 36:5 (September-October 2006), with William Hurlbut and Markus Grompe.Since 1998, when human embryonic stem cellswere first isolated, our nation has been locked ina conflict over federal funding of this new field of scientific research. Both sides in the… More
Robby George on the Banjo
– Published June 24, 2008 by nnlp35, YouTube.Robert George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, plays the banjo after the First Things board meeting in 2008.
The Nature and Basis of Human Dignity
– Ratio Juris 21:2 (June 2008), with Patrick Lee.Abstract: We argue that all human beings have a special type of dignity which is the basis for (1) the obligation all of us have not to kill them, (2) the obligation to take their… More
Robby George Performs “Hallelujah”
– December 25, 2008, published by GeorgeFamilySings's channel, YouTube.Hannah, Rachel, and Robert George sing “Hallelujah,” Christmas 2008.
Embryonic human persons: Talking Point on morality and human embryo research
– EMBO Reports 10:4 (April 2009), with Patrick Lee.If, as we believe, human embryos are human beings who deserve the same basic respect we accord to human beings at later developmental stages, then research that involves deliberately… More
What’s Wrong with the West?
– In Gudrun and Martin Kugler (eds.), Exiting a Dead End Road (Kairos, 2010), with William Saunders.Robert George and Cornel West on Bloggingheads
– Princeton University, published December 15, 2010, bloggingheads.tv.Robert George and Cornel West discuss irreducible human dignity, how to keep power from corrupting , the evil of greed, why the left is on the wrong side of history when it come to… More
Natural Law, God, and Human Dignity
– Gospel and Culture Lecture at the Center for Faith & Work, March 20, 2011, YouTube.Natural law theorists believe that since all humans are made in the image of God, every person possesses irreducible capacities for rationality, freedom, and moral discernment. Natural law… More
Remarks on American Exceptionalism
– National Review, September 5, 2011, YouTube.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
Natural Law, God, and Human Dignity
– In Jesse Covington, Bryan McGraw, and Micah Watson (eds.), Natural Law and Evangelical Political Thought (Lexington Books, 2013).Robby George plays “County Clare”
– Published by Matt Franck, June 1, 2013, YouTube.Dignity and Marriage
– In Christopher McCrudden (ed.), Understanding Human Dignity (Oxford UP/The British Academy, 2014).Ethics of Euthanasia and Letting Children Choose to Die
– CNN, November 27, 2013, published by Latest News, YouTube.Robert P. George Trio – Bluegrass
– With Michael Smith on guitar and David George on bass, published by Cafe Improv, August 23, 2014, YouTube.Guitarist Michael Smith and guitarist-and-banjo-player Robby George offer an eclectic mix of American music from bluegrass instrumentals, to popular standards, to 60s folk numbers. They… More
Robert P. George Trio – The Flint Hill Special
– With Michael Smith on guitar and David George on bass, published by Cafe Improv, August 23, 2014, YouTube.Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right, with lyrics – Robert P. George Trio
– With Michael Smith on guitar and David George on bass, published by Cafe Improv, August 23, 2014, YouTube.Lyrics: It ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe It don’t matter, anyhow An’ it ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe If you don’t know by now When your rooster crows at the… More
The Ontological Status of Embryos: A Reply to Jason Morris
– Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 39:5 (2014), with Patrick Lee and Christopher Tollefsen.Abstract: In various places we have defended the position that a new human organism, that is, an individual member of the human species, comes to be at fertilization, the union of the… 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
Hauenstein Center American Conversations: Robert P. George and Cornel West
– A Dialogue on "A Workable Armistice in the Culture Wars," between keynote speakers, Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies, Grand Valley State University, April 2, 2015, YouTube.Professors Robert P. George and Cornel West visited GVSU for the Hauenstein Center’s final American Conversations keynote of the 2014-2015 season. Their talk “A Workable… More
The Cost of Freedom: How Disagreement Makes Us Civil (Robert George, Cornel West, Rick Warren)
– Bioloa University, April 30, 2015, YouTube.Getting along through disagreement is never easy. Preserving the freedom to think and learn and grow comes with a cost. But what if the disagreement itself is valuable for us? What if the… 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.
Five Pillars of a Decent and Dynamic Society
– In James R. Stoner, Jr. and Harold James (eds.), The Thriving Society: On The Social Conditions of Human Flourishing (The Witherspoon Institute, 2015). First presented as the keynote address at John Paul II Australian Leaders Forum, Sydney, August 2012; Lecture in the Loyola University’s Centennial Celebration, March 2013; Keynote address at Sutherland Institute's 2013 Annual Dinner, April 2013; Lecture at Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture, September 2013.Teaching
Life as an Evil; Death as a Good: Dualism and Callahan’s Inversion
– In Gerard Bradley and Robert Barry (eds.), Set No Limits: A Rebuttal to Daniel Callahan's Proposal to Limit Health Care for the Elderly (University of Illinois Press, 1991).The Moral Status of the Human Embryo
– Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 48:2 (Spring 2005), with Alfonso Gómez-Lobo. First published as "Statement of Professor George" in Leon R. Kass (ed.), Human Cloning and Human Dignity: The Report of the President's Council On Bioethics (Public Affairs, 2002), pp. 294-306; and Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry (The President’s Council on Bioethics, 2002).The subject matter of Human Cloning and Human Dignity (President’s Council 2002) is the production of a human embryo by means of somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) or similar… More
The Wrong of Abortion
– In Andrew I. Cohen and Christopher H. Wellman (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics (Blackwell Publishers, 2005), with Patrick Lee. Reprinted in Carol Levine (ed.), Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Bioethical Issues, 11th edition (McGraw-Hill Publishers, 2006).Much of the public debate about abortion concerns the question whether deliberate feticide ought to be unlawful, at least in most circumstances. We will lay that question aside here in… More
Natural Law and Human Rights: A Conversation
– In Elizabeth Bucar and Barbra Barnette (eds.), Does Human Rights Need God? (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2005).Seeking Consensus: A Clarification and Defense of Altered Nuclear Transfer
– Hastings Center Report 36:5 (September-October 2006), with William Hurlbut and Markus Grompe.Since 1998, when human embryonic stem cellswere first isolated, our nation has been locked ina conflict over federal funding of this new field of scientific research. Both sides in the… More
Robby George on the Banjo
– Published June 24, 2008 by nnlp35, YouTube.Robert George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, plays the banjo after the First Things board meeting in 2008.
The Nature and Basis of Human Dignity
– Ratio Juris 21:2 (June 2008), with Patrick Lee.Abstract: We argue that all human beings have a special type of dignity which is the basis for (1) the obligation all of us have not to kill them, (2) the obligation to take their… More
Robby George Performs “Hallelujah”
– December 25, 2008, published by GeorgeFamilySings's channel, YouTube.Hannah, Rachel, and Robert George sing “Hallelujah,” Christmas 2008.
Embryonic human persons: Talking Point on morality and human embryo research
– EMBO Reports 10:4 (April 2009), with Patrick Lee.If, as we believe, human embryos are human beings who deserve the same basic respect we accord to human beings at later developmental stages, then research that involves deliberately… More
What’s Wrong with the West?
– In Gudrun and Martin Kugler (eds.), Exiting a Dead End Road (Kairos, 2010), with William Saunders.Robert George and Cornel West on Bloggingheads
– Princeton University, published December 15, 2010, bloggingheads.tv.Robert George and Cornel West discuss irreducible human dignity, how to keep power from corrupting , the evil of greed, why the left is on the wrong side of history when it come to… More
Natural Law, God, and Human Dignity
– Gospel and Culture Lecture at the Center for Faith & Work, March 20, 2011, YouTube.Natural law theorists believe that since all humans are made in the image of God, every person possesses irreducible capacities for rationality, freedom, and moral discernment. Natural law… More
Remarks on American Exceptionalism
– National Review, September 5, 2011, YouTube.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
Natural Law, God, and Human Dignity
– In Jesse Covington, Bryan McGraw, and Micah Watson (eds.), Natural Law and Evangelical Political Thought (Lexington Books, 2013).Robby George plays “County Clare”
– Published by Matt Franck, June 1, 2013, YouTube.Dignity and Marriage
– In Christopher McCrudden (ed.), Understanding Human Dignity (Oxford UP/The British Academy, 2014).Ethics of Euthanasia and Letting Children Choose to Die
– CNN, November 27, 2013, published by Latest News, YouTube.Robert P. George Trio – Bluegrass
– With Michael Smith on guitar and David George on bass, published by Cafe Improv, August 23, 2014, YouTube.Guitarist Michael Smith and guitarist-and-banjo-player Robby George offer an eclectic mix of American music from bluegrass instrumentals, to popular standards, to 60s folk numbers. They… More
Robert P. George Trio – The Flint Hill Special
– With Michael Smith on guitar and David George on bass, published by Cafe Improv, August 23, 2014, YouTube.Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right, with lyrics – Robert P. George Trio
– With Michael Smith on guitar and David George on bass, published by Cafe Improv, August 23, 2014, YouTube.Lyrics: It ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe It don’t matter, anyhow An’ it ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe If you don’t know by now When your rooster crows at the… More
The Ontological Status of Embryos: A Reply to Jason Morris
– Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 39:5 (2014), with Patrick Lee and Christopher Tollefsen.Abstract: In various places we have defended the position that a new human organism, that is, an individual member of the human species, comes to be at fertilization, the union of the… 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
Hauenstein Center American Conversations: Robert P. George and Cornel West
– A Dialogue on "A Workable Armistice in the Culture Wars," between keynote speakers, Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies, Grand Valley State University, April 2, 2015, YouTube.Professors Robert P. George and Cornel West visited GVSU for the Hauenstein Center’s final American Conversations keynote of the 2014-2015 season. Their talk “A Workable… More
The Cost of Freedom: How Disagreement Makes Us Civil (Robert George, Cornel West, Rick Warren)
– Bioloa University, April 30, 2015, YouTube.Getting along through disagreement is never easy. Preserving the freedom to think and learn and grow comes with a cost. But what if the disagreement itself is valuable for us? What if the… 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.