Ask Americans what they think the First Amendment protects, and they will tell you “freedom of speech.”  But few will think of the amendment’s third protection: “freedom of assembly.” In his provocative new book, “Liberty’s Refuge, The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly,” Washington University School of Law professor John Inazu implores Americans to keep in mind the importance of this protection.

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Should we be able to buy babies, cadavers for dissection, or organs for transplantation? How about placing bets on our own life expectancy or the timing of a future terrorist attack?

Distaste for certain kinds of transactions creates...

It is a tribute to a polity dedicated to securing our rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness that we can enjoy our freedoms while taking them for granted, giving little thought to what makes them possible. But this inattention comes at a heavy price, paid in increased civic ignorance and decreased national attachment--both dangerous for a self-governing people.

By penalizing old-fashioned morality you do not make toleration of the new morality more likely.

In the name of Muslim unity, many Muslim-American leaders and organizations have been less than coherent when it comes to violent extremism.

It is easy to predict that the Con-Con-Con effort will make little progress for an elusively simple reason: the basic condition that made the compromises of the 1787 convention possible do not exist today.

Western liberalism and democracy have found few takers in the Middle East. Instead, the people of the region have chased totalitarian fantasies.

The relationship between Russia and its Muslim subjects is more complex than recent violence suggests.