Conscience

May 12, 2013

Liberated by Conscience

Book Review
by Louis W. Karlin / 1 Comment

Filed Under: Canon Law, Christopher St. German, Common Law, Conscience, Henry VIII, Hillary Mantel, History of Richard III, Life of Pico, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas More, Utopia, Wolf Hall

Who was Thomas More? What might seem a simple question draws several conflicting answers. To many, More was the great humanist author of Utopia, a work that has remained an essential text in the study of Western literature and …

Nov 25, 2012

A Leiter Case for the Superfluousness of Religious Liberty

Book Review
by Ryan Anderson / 23 Comments

Filed Under: Brian Leiter, Conscience, Establishment Clause, First Amendment, Religious Liberty, Why Tolerate Religion

In Why Tolerate Religion? Brian Leiter, author of the Leiter Reports blog and a law professor at the University of Chicago who has an interest in philosophy, asks why Western democracies have sought to promote and protect religion—and religious liberty—in …