It is common for religiously motivated actions to be specially protected by law. Many legal theorists have asked why: what makes religion special? What it worthy of toleration over and above other non-religious deeply held convictions? The answer I put forward that religions’ alleged afterlife consequences call a principle warrants special treatment. Under Rawlsian toleration, reasonable those ...

OBJECTIVE In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center, the public mental health system in New York City mounted the largest mental health disaster response in history, called Project Liberty. The successes and challenges of Project Liberty are evaluated. METHODS The development of Project Liberty is summarized and analyzed from the perspective of the New York...

Public health laws may mandate drastic limitations on individual liberty, such as forced medication and quarantine. This results in a tension between public health laws and guarantees of liberty such as the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. The Supreme Court has resolved this tension in favor of one or the other of these legal principl...

I HAVE KNOWN JOHN Gray for quite a few years, and have long admired his work. We were among the (very few) political theorists in the U.K. who, in the early 1970s, had an interest in the work of Hayek, and more generally in issues relating to classical liberalism. During the 1980s, he emerged as the most powerful and effective theorist of classical liberalism in the U.K., notably through his re...