Tyranny in the Marketplace
Threats to freedom come not only from government
Brad Littlejohn WORLD Opinions
Over the past couple years, a curious realignment has begun to take shape within American public life. For many decades, we had come to accept as almost a truism that to be conservative in America was to be “pro-business,” and that big business tended to support the Republican Party and at least give a modicum of respect to conservative morality. Today, though, conservatives have increasingly found themselves on the opposite side of cultural and political issues from corporate America.
Whether it’s Big Tech censorship, the proliferation of mandatory “DEI” training in workplaces from coast to coast, or vaccination requirements imposed by many big businesses during the pandemic, the right has ranged itself in protest against corporations it once enthusiastically supported.
In his column for the Washington Post, Henry Olsen argues that Trump's legal challenges make him an unwise choice as the GOP's 2024 presidential candidate.
Arguments to recognize a constitutional right to elective abortion—whether grounded in notions of privacy, liberty, or equality—tend to take their bearing from long-standing common-law protections for bodily integrity and more recent constitutional protections for decisional and bodily autonomy. But autonomy is an inapt legal and philosophical concept to employ in cases concerning elective abortion. A pregnant woman is not physically autonomous; she is carrying another human being within her. To frame the issue as one concerning decisional and bodily autonomy is to offer an erroneous account of pregnancy biologically, philosophically, and legally.
