Month: January 2006

The Bush administration claims that 9/11 gives the government immunity from lawsuits seeking damages for violation of constitutional rights. The following lawsuit may tie together the many “counterterrorism” measures...

In 1992, flush with victory in the Cold War, Francis Fukuyama penned an Hegelian book called The End of History and the Last Man. Fukuyama hypothesized that “liberal democracy may constitute the end point of...

An important election in 2006 is the election of a new governor in the state of Ohio. Due to term limits, Bob Taft (great-grandson of President William Howard Taft) is not able to run for re-election. Given the criminal charges...

Where have you gone Joseph Darby? Not that a nation turns its lonely eyes to you (with apologies to Paul Simon). Joseph Darby is a genuine hero and he’s paying a hefty price for being one. He didn’t abandon right and...

Christianity came of age in what the Roman scholar Keith Hopkins calls, “A world full of gods”–the era of Rome’s history, not terribly long after the republic became an empire, marked by the rise of:...