BOOK RECOMMENDATION: Rod Dreher
I have on my desk two books I find indispensable in thinking (and writing) about what the court fight over gay marriage means: the two-volume collection of essays published as "The End of Democracy?" -- published by Spence, and available really cheaply (less than $15 for both volumes) from
their website. These are the essays and responses first published in
First Things magazine, in which the matter of whether or not the "judicial usurpation of politics" meant that we were approaching a point at which ours had become a "tyrant state" devoid of legitimacy. There are lots of great arguments on both sides from contributors like Robert Bork, Robbie George, Hadley Arkes, Russ Hittinger, Bill Kristol, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Ramesh Ponnuru, the editors of
NR, and others. The heart of this debate was
Roe v. Wade, but everything said here applies to the gay marriage issue squarely before us now. Very, very timely, these collections.
link
links to
First Things essays online: start
here; continue
here; use the search function
here for more.
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