Matthew Franck is a scholar of constitutional law and political philosophy who has written extensively on religion, law, and public life. He is a longtime contributor to debates in conservative intellectual circles. He contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2018, writing on controversies in religious and cultural commentary.
It’s not every day that a quarrel breaks out among friends over something that happened in 1858. But so it was in the second week of January when First Things published online a review from its February issue of the memoirs of Edgardo Mortara, a man born into a Jewish family in Bologna in 1851 who…
It’s not every day that a quarrel breaks out among friends over something that happened in 1858. But so it was in the second week of January when First Things published online a review from its February issue of the memoirs of Edgardo Mortara, a man born into a Jewish family in Bologna in 1851 who…