The Center for Law and the Human Person announces the theme for its Fourth Annual Spring Symposium: “Now We Know that the Law is Good”: On Law and Virtue. The symposium will take place March 26, 2026 at the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law. We are delighted to announce that Mary Ann Glendon, the Learned Hand Professor of Law emerita at Harvard University and a former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, will deliver the symposium’s public keynote lecture.
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I am coming to the conclusion this week of Shakespeare’s Richard II. This is the first in the four plays concerning the rise and reign of Henry IV. It tells the story of the end of Richard’s reign and his deposition by Henry Bolingbroke (who becomes Henry IV). Richard was a terrible king–corrupt, depraved, weak–and […]
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This week in my Shakespeare in a year reading program brought me to the end of “The Taming of the Shrew” and got me a bit further through “Venus and Adonis,” together with a few more of the early Sonnets (4, 5, 6). The themes in the poems continue to be those of love unrequited […]
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This week in my Shakespeare in a year program had me completing “The Two Gentlemen of Verona,” beginning “The Taming of the Shrew,” and progressing through a bit more of “Venus & Adonis,” together with Sonnets 3 and 4. The motif of love continues in “Taming.” The basic plot line so far (leaving aside the […]
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Happy New Year to all of our Center readers and supporters. Elizabeth and I are excited for all of our sundry Center programs in 2026 and we will be communicating these to you by and by. As a bit of a diversion, though one connected to the themes and aspirations of our Center, I thought […]
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