Robert P. George, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, discusses the same-sex marriage ruling in California on PBS’s Newshour. George talks about the ruling as well as the legal analysis and the appeal of the ruling.

Hoover fellow David Davenport discusses the 14th Amendment and its impact on gay rights verses religious rights.

Hoover fellow Richard Epstein uses case law to explain the historical development of antidiscrimination laws. Epstein discusses modern controversies involving religious liberty and proposes a classical liberal solution based on mutual tolerance.

The murder of 21 Christians by ISIS in Libya brought condemnation from around the world. Their murder puts them in a long history of persecution of the Coptic church, writes Samuel Tadros.

A healthy society strikes this deal: to be tolerated yourself, you must tolerate what offends you.

Islamist extremists prey on their own people even as they draw strength from them.

Why don’t US publications skewer religion the way Charlie Hebdo does? For one thing, most Americans don’t think of religion as a menace.

Despite a pair of recent responses by Ramesh Ponnuru and another by Professor Vincent Philip Muñoz, we continue to view the original understanding of the Constitution’s free-exercise clause to require exemptions to otherwise generally applicable laws except under certain conditions, such as harm to individuals, danger to the public, or the infringement of equal rights. 

With President Trump out of quarantine and the debates resuming (maybe), abortion will return to center stage. Democrats will seek to turn this week's Senate hearings on Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court into a morality play. Expect to watch senators imply that her devout Catholic religious beliefs portend the judicial imposition of a patriarchal society.