My column today in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Bruce Ledewitz: We don’t need voter ID because voter fraud isn’t a problem Special to the Post-Gazette Feb 23, 2026 Now that Pennsylvania’s Democratic Sen. John Fetterman has decided to support voter ID, an almost purely...
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David Brooks Cannot Rebuild Western Civilization
My column today in OnlySky. David Brooks wants to rebuild a humanistic culture To rediscover our values, we first have to forge a new foundation for them. Bruce Ledewitz 18 Feb 2026 In January, David Brooks, a columnist at the New York Times, wrote his farewell...
Common law and values, not originalism, drive Supreme Court Decisions
My column today in The Hill. You can access it here. The U.S. Supreme Court is fast redeeming its reputation and, in the process, is reinforcing the rule of law. The justices appear poised to protect the independence of the Federal Reserve and restrict at least some...
THE UNIVERSE IS ON OUR SIDE
In The Universe Is On Our Side, Bruce Ledewitz argues that there has been a breakdown in American public life that no election can fix – Americans struggle to even converse about politics and the usual explanations for our condition have failed to make things better.
Ledewitz posits that America is living with the consequences of the Death of God, which Friedrich Nietzsche presumed would be momentous and irreversible.
For a long time, God acted as the story of the meaning of our lives. America’s future requires that we begin a new story by each of us asking a question posed by theologian Bernard Lonergan: Is the universe on our side? When we commit to live honestly and fully by our answer to that question, even if our immediate answer is no, America can begin to heal. Beyond this, pondering the question of the universe will allow us to see that there is more to the universe than blind forces and dead matter…



