Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself.

The First Amendment is about how we govern ourselves - not about how we titillate ourselves sexually.

An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept