Natural Law

Putting Natural Law to Work: Review of Hopeful Realism

A trio of Protestant Christian political science professors argue that evangelicals should be more aware of and attuned to the natural law tradition

Reformed Protestantism: The Progenitor of Modern Political Thought

Paul DeHart’s new book, “Contract in the Ruins: Natural Law and Government by Consent,” argues that what we today call “liberalism” cannot be understood in isolation from natural law and the Protestant Reformation

Public Discourse, Political Debate, and Natural Law

America’s founders, amid their religious differences, saw the need for interaction between religion and state that neither coerces nor excludes. Natural law reasoning fits perfectly with this model of church-state relations.

Robert Kagan’s “Antiliberalism” Gives Christianity All the Blame and None of the Credit for American Exceptionalism

Robert Kagan’s new book mistakenly argues that everything bad in America comes from religion and everything good from the Enlightenment

Review of “Faithful Reason” by Andrew Walker

Andrew Walker compellingly argues that God is the only sure ground for coherent ethical discourse and public order

Common Rest for the Common Good

Blue laws were supported by framers of the Constitution and still have relevance today

Conservatism’s Missing Protestants

Protestants have to get their act together so that we can have real pluralism.

Don’t Deny Natural Rights: A Review of Nigel Biggar’s What’s Wrong with Rights?
Don’t Deny Natural Rights: A Review of Nigel Biggar’s What’s Wrong with Rights?

Today any serious book searching for the meaning of rights, natural rights, and human rights is welcome, but in “What’s Wrong with Rights?” Biggar seems preoccupied with a straw man—the claim that rights are absolute.

Waiting for a Better Reformed Defense of Liberalism: A Review of Drunen’s Politics after Christendom
Waiting for a Better Reformed Defense of Liberalism: A Review of Van Drunen’s Politics after Christendom

Van Drunen’s Politics after Christendom doesn’t convincingly defend liberalism from a biblical perspective. Readers wanting a compelling Reformed defense of ordered liberty will have to keep waiting.