The ideology of the west (capitalism) is founded on the idea that man is capable of determining the good and the bad, and that he is capable of determining the laws and systems that enable humankind ...

On May 30, the State Department announced that it was setting up a Commission on Unalienable Rights to advise the Secretary of State, and “provide fresh thinking about human rights discourse where ...

Natural Law and Human Rights: Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason, by Pierre Manent (University of Notre Dame Press, 149 pp., $29) Russell Kirk once described natural law as “an ethical knowledge, ...

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This book review appeared in the Winter 2025/26 issue of The Independent Review. In the final paragraph of her excellent introductory text on the so-called New Natural Law Theory (NNLT), Melissa ...

In recent years I’ve run into a lot of people, including Catholics, who are suspicious of the concept of “natural law.” They associate it with a kind of conservatism which they believe is dehumanizing ...

Natural law theory teaches that God embedded a teleological moral order in the world, such that things mature toward fixed ends. Human beings exist to realize both natural and supernatural ends, and, ...

It is apparent that Trump himself never so much as glanced at this nation’s defining document. The only more worrisome and lamentable fact is that tens of millions of Americans found this president’s ...

Until quite recently, natural law thinking had been a Catholic preserve. My interest in it was awakened during my days as a Jewish undergraduate at the University of Chicago, by the great Leo ...