Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism

Introduction - Robert P. George

Robert P. George has been called "an indispensable man" (Touchstone), "one of the most incisive legal and moral thinkers working today" (First Things), "brilliant and learned" (Weekly Standard), and "this country's most influential conservative Christian thinker" (New York Times Magazine). His new book, Conscience and Its Enemies, shows why. The Catholic Education Resource Center is proud to offer the first excerpt from the book.

Robert P. George takes students' questions - Robert P. George

Professor George recently took questions from a group of ivy league students about the fun of disrupting campus group-think, challenging the "dogmas of liberalism", the marriage debate, and much more.

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