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July 22, 2019
William Saunders, JD, director of the MA in Human Rights program, is quoted by the Washington Post regarding the launch of the State Department's panel focused on human rights and natural law.
July 12, 2019
MA in Human Rights program director, William Saunders, joins as faculty for the annual Summer Seminar on the Free Society in the Slovak Republic. Learn more about this important effort.
July 12, 2019
Mary Ann Glendon, former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See and board member of IHE's MA in Human Rights program, will head a new human rights advisory body to the U.S. State Department.
June 25, 2019
Over the last 20 years, public discourse has tended toward the shrill and irrational, punctuated with occasional violence. No sharing of opinions. Don’t ask questions. No discussion of points of view. Empathy is dead. Socialization—an essential human activity—is regulated by the mob, and its walls are shrinking.
June 10, 2019
Elections for the European parliament, regardless of the results, are always a celebration of the EU project. Blue flags with the 12 golden stars are omnipresent when a “European electorate” casts its vote in what is considered the largest election in the world outside India. But the most recent elections are important for a different reason: They are part of a longer trend that is pushing Europe toward global irrelevance.
June 5, 2019
How do aesthetic factors such as beauty, awe, and wonder shape the practice of science? Are such experiences help or hindrance to scientific progress? And do they vary across disciplines and national cultures? IHE Fellow Brandon Vaidyanathan, along with others, addressed these questions during the International Symposium on the Aesthetic Dimensions of Science.
May 24, 2019
For years I have taught The Apology in my introductory philosophy class. Every year, some students hate Socrates. One year, one of my students found Socrates particularly annoying. As we were working through the text, she slammed her book down in frustration.
May 24, 2019
As the spire cracked and buckled, millions of us felt civilization trembling. But trembling at what? At the loss of God? At the sudden recognition that, for all our progressive confidence, deep down everyone knows that Western civilization lacks the philosophical and religious principles that once made such a structure possible in the first place?
May 23, 2019
Watch William Saunders, JD, on EWTN News Nightly on the occasion of the anniversary of the beatification of Saint Bakhita, patroness of the MA in Human Rights at The Catholic University of America.
May 22, 2019
In his column, William Saunders, JD, discusses The March for Life, the President, and Executive Branch Developments; The Supreme Court and Other Judicial Matters; State Developments; and, Other Developments: Human Rights and Abortion.
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