Douglas Murray

Jul 25, 2023 | lawliberty.org | Rick Claybrook |Theodore Dalrymple |Graham McAleer |Douglas Murray

The decision in 303 Creative gives those committed to free speech and the free exercise of religion much to celebrate. The Court held that a website designer’s work is “speech” in a constitutional sense, and so she cannot be compelled to prepare messages for same-sex weddings, to which she has religious objections. But artistic vendors are not the only ones who have religious and other objections to same-sex marriage.

Jul 24, 2023 | lawliberty.org | Theodore Dalrymple |Douglas Murray |David Goldman |James Hartley

“A man is like a carpenter,” mused Sholem Aleichem’s Tevye, “for a man dies, and so does a carpenter.” Talmud interprets, Adam Kirsch avers, and so did Freud, so Freud is like a Talmudist. In a recent essay entitled “Freud as Talmudist” for the Jewish Review of Books, Kirsch, a poet and critic, equates Freud’s interpretation of dreams with rabbinical interpretation of Jewish law, or Halakhah (literally, “the way”). Kirsch is a secular Jew with a literary interest in Jewish texts.

Jul 19, 2023 | lawliberty.org | Juliana Geran Pilon |Douglas Murray |Theodore Dalrymple |Titus Techera

If the next best thing to seeing one’s book in print is to have it reviewed by a respected scholar in a publication of the highest intellectual caliber, I am thrice blessed, for David Lewis Schaefer’s review of my latest book, An Idea Betrayed: Jews, Liberalism, and the American Left, concludes: “By reminding us of the true meaning of liberalism, articulating the reasons for its decay, and explaining how Jews’ particular interest depends on a restoration of something like this country’s...

Jul 19, 2023 | lawliberty.org | Theodore Dalrymple |Douglas Murray |Helen Dale |Titus Techera

When did things begin to go wrong? The Garden of Eden is one possible answer, of course. But we nevertheless look for more proximate answers to a question such as “When did transgender ideology become an unassailable orthodoxy in large parts of the academy?”Personal memory is deceptive when trying to answer such a question: in any case, orthodoxies nowadays become dominant in a process, rather than by encyclical or as an event.

Jul 19, 2023 | lawliberty.org | Aaron Coleman |Douglas Murray |Helen Dale |Titus Techera

Whether or not The Federalist remains relevant in modern America largely depends on how one defines relevancy. Do we mean the work remains relevant because of its theoretical expositions on how the Constitution would operate? Or is it relevant as a historical text? If we mean the former, The Federalist has never been genuinely relevant, but as a historical text, speaking to a specific historical context, The Federalist remains essential.