Robert P. George

A wonderful visit to the Manhattan Institute today, where I was interviewed by its fearless leader, and my friend, Reihan Salam.

On April 9th, I'll be giving the Biennial Kellogg Lecture in Jurisprudence at the Library of Congress. Further information and links to register to attend in person or view the livestream, available here. blogs.loc.gov/law/2026/03/jo…

To view the livestream online: loc.zoomgov.com/webinar/regist…

On April 9th, I'll be giving the Biennial Kellogg Lecture in Jurisprudence of the Library of Congress: "Why Liberal Secularism Fails." It was scheduled for last October, but was rescheduled due to the government shutdown. To register to attend in person: etix.com/ticket/p/60222…

Congratulations to my wonderful former student Rabbi Meir Soloveichik on his selection as a 2026 Bradley Prize recipient!

Honored to be discussing liberalism at @Princeton this Friday - hope to see local friends there. @McCormickProf jmp.princeton.edu/events/2026/li…

My gimlet eyed, sharp tongued, Trumpy Republican friend HJ Leman has launched a Substack: @republicanlady" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@republicanlady. I enjoy and even learn from her commentary, even when I myself am on the receiving end of her fussilades! You can find her here: @republicanlady?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=99vdx" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@republicanlad…

Ideas have consequences. Abandoning the concept of marriage as a conjugal partnership and redefining marriage as a form of sexual-romantic companionship or domestic partnership had consequences. They were predictable--and predicted. encounterbooks.com/books/what-is-…

Noah Rothman gives Paul Ehrlich the obituary he earned. nationalreview.com/corner/paul-eh…

Philosopher Kathleen Stock on abortion in Britain: "You can’t mention the most obvious ethical difficulty: hundreds and thousands of deaths." Boom. Dr. Stock's plainspokenness and sheer integrity put most academics to shame.

NEXT WEEK: Join us for a talk by Ryan T. Anderson (@RyanTAnd) on “The Case for Social Conservatism.” A Princeton alumnus ('04) and President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center (@EPPCdc), he will present arguments on life, marriage, the family, and religious liberty. Hosted by the James Madison Program, the event will be held on Monday, March 23rd at 5-6:30 pm in Bowen Hall 222. For more information, see here: bit.ly/4sDRpDL

I urge my friends in Scotland to email your MSPs immediately to urge them to vote against the introduction of assisted suicide. It is literally a life and death matter for vulnerable people. And the vote is imminent.

@FedSoc Bravo! A brilliant selection! Wonderful!

It is our pleasure to announce the winner of the 2026 Joseph Story Award – Prof. J. Joel Alicea! The annual award recognizes a junior academic who has demonstrated excellence in legal scholarship, a commitment to teaching, a concern for students, and who has made a significant public impact in a manner that advances the rule of law in a free society.

What wonderful news! The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy has conferred its annual Joseph Story Award on Professor J. Joel Alicea of the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America. Joel was an undergraduate at Princeton, where he was one of my star students. He went on to Harvard Law School and a clerkship at the Supreme Court of the United States. He has become a leading theorist of originalism in constitutional interpretation. This is an inspired selection. I am so delighted!

@jacklgoldsmith I'll add that the judge was 100% correct on the substantive legal question.

@jacklgoldsmith Adrian is right on the mark here, in my opinion, Jack. The vulgar rhetoric is not justified. And it's not simply a matter of politesse (or "civility" in the degraded sense of that term that essentially reduces it to mere politessee).

Adrian Vermeule on Judge VanDyke's dissent. thenewdigest.substack.com/p/judicial-rhe…

The eminent German political philosopher Jurgen Habermas has died at age 96. He was a towering figure of the post-WW II era during which liberal secularism was dominant in his field. He played a role in continental European intellectual life that was analogous to the role played by the late John Rawls in the U.S. and more broadly in the Anglosphere. Habermas lived into an era during which confidence in the liberal secularism he and Rawls championed has significantly eroded. He himself was by no means insensible to this erosion. In fact, to his credit, he acknowledged the force of the criticisms marshaled against liberal secularism during the period of its ascendancy, and in recent decades he looked for opportunities to engage with secularism's deepest critics, including his countryman Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI). And, despite the persistence of his unbelief, he did not hesitate to note the role Christianity had played in forging and advancing values he himself shared. He was by no means a Christopher Hitchens-type "new atheist." On the contrary, he was, to quote Don Corleone, "a serious man." Requiescat in pace.

I'm so excited about what's happening at the University of Texas under the Provostship of my old friend Will Inboden--especially in the School of Civic Leadership, led by Justin Dyer. Bravo! Learn about it here: youtu.be/p3lURk56R8k?si…

@jpodhoretz Milton Himmelfarb's definition of Judaism: "Judaism is against paganism."

Judaism is literally the faith that came into being to anathematize idol worship. Or, to put it in language Candace Owens would understand, "Jew say Baal bad."

@erikabachiochi These are men who know what men are called to do and be. They are blessings to their wives, their sons, their daughters, their grandchildren, and their communities. We need them--and more of them.

@McCormickProf My father has done the same ❤️

For all the talk of sexual difference on the Right, it’s baffling to me that some seem naive to the most salient of differences: that most men could kill most women with their bare hands. The corollary to this is that aggressive and demeaning rhetoric about/toward women actually scares women… *because* they are more vulnerable than men. I personally don’t know a single conservative man who would raise a hand against a woman, or demean himself by speaking about women as some of these younger men do. (Indeed, my experience with faithful conservative men is what attracted me to both faith and conservatism in the first place.) But the conservative men I know - who are yes, gentle-men - know well their own capacity for violence. And this, I think, makes them grateful for the perennial tradition of the West which taught for centuries that liberal/moral education and habituation would help to moderate and channel men’s characteristic spiritedness for the common good, for the good of women and children alike. Call me old-fashioned but I pine for the public voice of these gentlemen, many of whom heroically do the work of human formation in their private and professional lives - because they know that that’s where genuine formation takes place, certainly not by opining via anon accounts on X.