the other book i'm thinking of is joseph raz's morality of freedom. he's a public intellectual. gets around not only the campus but the white house, most literally. after holding -- shortly after he wrote the book on perfectionist liberalism, he sefshd as domestic policy adviser for president bill clinton. you can think of him, it's no secret that bill is a man of at least a slightly left of center. so you can think of bill as sort of a liberal counterpart to our friend and keynoter robert george whom maybe this is a secret from some of you but is conservative. but you can think of it to simplify it a little. think of bill as robby george without the banjo. >> but with a jazz piano. i'm going to focus my remarks on the recent statement of the u.s. catholic bishops concerning religious liberty, a document that in my judgment warrants sustained reflection. in doing this, we have to do our best to decouple our inquiry from the overwrought polemics of our polarized contemporary politics. the church in my judgment is not conducting a war on women, and the obama administration is not