Decadence and Catholicism

Recent News

• On C-SPAN’s Q&A, The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment coauthors Randy Barnett and Evan Bernick argued that the United States must get its “Constitutional house in order”—and stop chronically misinterpreting the amendment.
• At the Washington Post, Global Health Security author Lawrence Gostin analyzed the legality of President Biden’s federal mandate requiring COVID-19 vaccination or testing in private businesses.
• The Irish Times spoke with Thane Gustafson, author of Klimat, about the “climate change reckoning” facing Russia—as Vladimir Putin avoids attending the COP26 international climate change conference in Glasgow.
• At the Washington Post, read To Live and Defy in LA author Felicia Viator on how judicial edicts on language in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse—barring use of the term “victims” for the men killed but allowing “looters,” “rioters,”, and “arsonists”—parallel decisions in a 1942 case in Los Angeles that became a flashpoint for the original “Zoot Suit Riots.”