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December 31, 2017: 2017, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2017

December 31, 2017: 2017, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “2017“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


December 25, 2017: The Christian Picks Him Up, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2017

December 25, 2017: The Christian Picks Him Up, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “The Christian Picks Him Up“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


December 20, 2017: America In Retreat, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2017

December 20, 2017: America In Retreat, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “America in Retreat“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


December 13, 2017: Good News From Alabama, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2017

December 13, 2017: Good News From Alabama, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Good News from Alabama“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


December 10, 2017: When Can Due Process Be Dispensed With?, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2017

December 10, 2017: When Can Due Process Be Dispensed With?, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “When Can Due Process Be Dispensed With?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


December 8, 2017: The Hypocrisy Of The Democratic Party, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2017

December 8, 2017: The Hypocrisy Of The Democratic Party, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “The Hypocrisy of the Democratic Party“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


Nailing Jello To A Tree: A Christian Approach To Ethics In Intelligence, Melanie Scherpereel Dec 2017

Nailing Jello To A Tree: A Christian Approach To Ethics In Intelligence, Melanie Scherpereel

Senior Honors Theses

This paper will discuss Christian involvement in the intelligence field in addition to the ethical issues inherent to intelligence, specifically deception, including lying and manipulation, and technology as a force multiplier. Many Christians believe that intelligence is fundamentally a field of extensive deception that should be avoided. Ethics and morality, what it means to tell the truth, and biblical examples of people who used deception and were commended, will be analyzed from a Christian worldview perspective. The arguments will be presented in order that Christians may be able to understand how to apply the two greatest commandments, to love our …


December 2, 2017: The Criticism Of Mark Lilla They Don't Want You To See, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2017

December 2, 2017: The Criticism Of Mark Lilla They Don't Want You To See, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “The Criticism of Mark Lilla They Don't Want You to See“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


November 29, 2017: The Acting Director And The Rule Of Law, Bruce Ledewitz Nov 2017

November 29, 2017: The Acting Director And The Rule Of Law, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “The Acting Director and the Rule of Law“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


November 23, 2017: David Brooks Gets The Need For Hallowed Secularism, Bruce Ledewitz Nov 2017

November 23, 2017: David Brooks Gets The Need For Hallowed Secularism, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “David Brooks Gets the Need for Hallowed Secularism“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


November 21, 2017: The Revenge Of Ruth Ann Dailey, Bruce Ledewitz Nov 2017

November 21, 2017: The Revenge Of Ruth Ann Dailey, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “The Revenge of Ruth Ann Dailey“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


November 18, 2017: Resurrecting Truth At Duquesne University School Of Law, Bruce Ledewitz Nov 2017

November 18, 2017: Resurrecting Truth At Duquesne University School Of Law, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Resurrecting Truth at Duquesne University School of Law“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


November 14, 2017: Going After A Defeated Political Opponent Is The End Of Democratic Life, Bruce Ledewitz Nov 2017

November 14, 2017: Going After A Defeated Political Opponent Is The End Of Democratic Life, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Going After a Defeated Political Opponent is the End of Democratic Life“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


The Possibility Of Naturalistic Jurisprudence: Legal Positivism And Natural Law Theory Revisited, Dan Priel Nov 2017

The Possibility Of Naturalistic Jurisprudence: Legal Positivism And Natural Law Theory Revisited, Dan Priel

Articles & Book Chapters

Contemporary legal philosophy is predominantly anti-naturalistic. This is true of natural law theory, but also, more surprisingly, of legal positivism. Several prominent legal philosophers have in fact argued that the kind of questions that legal philosophers are interested in cannot be naturalized, such that a naturalistic legal philosophy is something of a contradiction in terms. Against the dominant view I argue that there are arguable naturalistic versions of both legal positivism and natural law. Much of the essay is dedicated to showing that such views are possible: I identify naturalistic versions of a “natural law” view, a “positivist” view, as …


October 31, 2017: Is This Collusion?, Bruce Ledewitz Oct 2017

October 31, 2017: Is This Collusion?, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Is This Collusion?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


October 24, 2017: Ross Douthat Tries To Get The Democrats To Take Back Congress, Bruce Ledewitz Oct 2017

October 24, 2017: Ross Douthat Tries To Get The Democrats To Take Back Congress, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Ross Douthat Tries to Get the Democrats to Take Back Congress“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


October 17, 2017: A Communal Spiritual Wasteland, Bruce Ledewitz Oct 2017

October 17, 2017: A Communal Spiritual Wasteland, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “A Communal Spiritual Wasteland“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


October 9, 2017: Jewish Witness On The West Bank, Bruce Ledewitz Oct 2017

October 9, 2017: Jewish Witness On The West Bank, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Jewish Witness on the West Bank“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


November 7, 2017: “An Act Of Pure Evil”, Bruce Ledewitz Oct 2017

November 7, 2017: “An Act Of Pure Evil”, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “An Act of Pure Evil” discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


November 4, 2017: America Is Recovering From President Obama, Bruce Ledewitz Oct 2017

November 4, 2017: America Is Recovering From President Obama, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “America is Recovering from President Obama“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


October 1, 2017: Debate On Originalism, Bruce Ledewitz Oct 2017

October 1, 2017: Debate On Originalism, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Debate on Originalism“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


September 30, 2017: The Drama Of Religious Life, Bruce Ledewitz Sep 2017

September 30, 2017: The Drama Of Religious Life, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “The Drama of Religious Life" discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


September 22, 2017: More Lies: On Iranian Compliance And Deficit Denial, Bruce Ledewitz Sep 2017

September 22, 2017: More Lies: On Iranian Compliance And Deficit Denial, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “More Lies: On Iranian Compliance and Deficit Denial“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


September 15, 2017: The Iran Deal Stays And Median Income Is Up, Bruce Ledewitz Sep 2017

September 15, 2017: The Iran Deal Stays And Median Income Is Up, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “The Iran Deal Stays and Median Income Is Up“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


September 7, 2017: Spending Money We Don't Have, Bruce Ledewitz Sep 2017

September 7, 2017: Spending Money We Don't Have, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Spending Money We Don't Have“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


September 2, 2017: Asking The Wrong Question, Bruce Ledewitz Sep 2017

September 2, 2017: Asking The Wrong Question, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Asking the Wrong Question“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


August 19, 2017: What A Weak President Actually Looks Like, Bruce Ledewitz Aug 2017

August 19, 2017: What A Weak President Actually Looks Like, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “What a Weak President Actually Looks Like“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


August 16, 2017: Moral, Historical And Legal Confusions Over Charlottesville, Bruce Ledewitz Aug 2017

August 16, 2017: Moral, Historical And Legal Confusions Over Charlottesville, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Moral, Historical and Legal Confusions over Charlottesville“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


August 13, 2017: Why Go To Mars?, Bruce Ledewitz Aug 2017

August 13, 2017: Why Go To Mars?, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Why Go to Mars?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


July 31, 2017: On Liberal Arrogance, Bruce Ledewitz Jul 2017

July 31, 2017: On Liberal Arrogance, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “On Liberal Arrogance“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.