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    Anglophone analytic legal philosophy has for decades been oriented around the work of H.L.A. Hart and Joseph Raz. According to Hart, law is based on social sources, particularly rules of
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    Human beings will always have work. It is part of the human condition. Work itself is a good that is part of God’s original design and therefore contributes to human flourishing. And while
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    Thomas Hobbes and Martin Luther are two of the most influential thinkers in the development of the early modern world. While neither figure is a liberal in the proper sense (it is Locke who
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    The grandest monument to the Spanish Franciscan friar, missionary, and explorer Francisco Garcés is the Garces Memorial Traffic Circle in Bakersfield, California. There, at the intersection
  • The City of God at the Tip of Africa

    Tertullian famously asked, “What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?” In the spirit of that ancient African theologian, let us ask a similar question: “What has Rome to do with Pretoria?” What