What are we to make of the military insisting it has played by the rules even as it bypassed them? One answer lies in an attitude that might be called “post-legal”. (STR / AFP via Getty Images) In ...

Legal scholar Kim Lane Scheppele defines her term ‘autocratic legalism’ as instruments of law being repurposed as weapons of control. An insidious loosening and dismantling of constitutional ...

To fixate on the letter of the law is to miss out on grace. But rejecting all limits isn't the answer. Legalism and reactions against it are a constant part of religious life. It lies at the center of ...

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This book is a spirited attack on "excessive faith in the efficacy of international law." Posner focuses on the thinking of American and European legal intellectuals who see international law as ...

Rigid obedience to the law without understanding its purpose may result in the failure to defeat Hamas – just as rigid legalism once led to Jerusalem’s destruction. There is a stark difference between ...

"A Tale of Two Paths" challenges readers to focus on who God is, not what they do TAYLOR, Miss., Feb. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Accomplished Christian author David Waddell explores the ongoing ...

SOME say economics in Germany is treated as a branch of moral philosophy. More often it is the worst sort of contract law. Throughout the euro crisis legal pettifogging has hampered rational policy.

This sermon was the fourth of five messages in the series "The Joy Genome." The image of a genome was used to convey the idea that Christian joy is somehow grafted into our human DNA. As Philippians ...