In this short reflection I will suggest that Viganò’s offhand remark shows us a deep truth about the legal culture…
James Chappel
James Chappel is the Hunt Family Assistant Professor of History at Duke University. His work on the intellectual, religious, and family history of twentieth-century Europe has been published, or is forthcoming, in the Journal of Modern History, Modern Intellectual History, Contemporary European History, Rethinking History, and other venues. He has also written on these themes for Boston Review, Dissent, and the Point.
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Catholic Modern: An introduction
February 27, 2018
The Church, like no other institution of its size, is beholden to its past. That past is, however, often misunderstood.…
All churches have heretics: On Catholicism, human rights, and the advantages of history for life
June 5, 2015
In the years since Samuel Moyn’s essay on Jacques Maritain, personalism, and human rights appeared, he has overseen a transformation…
An intended absence? Democracy and The Unintended Reformation
September 5, 2013
The long-term consequences of the Reformation have been a subject of heated debate for many decades. Most accounts have taken…