Adam J. MacLeod,
January 27, 2012
A successful account of social justice must affirm the primacy of communities, and institutions directed by communities, over both the individual and the state in promoting human flourishing.
Robert T. Miller,
January 26, 2012
A eudaimonistic ethical theory can show, without appeal to God, that certain actions are always wrong.
Deirdre Cooper,
January 25, 2012
In order to win, do Republicans really need to stop talking about abortion and marriage?
Charles J. Chaput,
January 24, 2012
While some people resent the imperfection, the inconvenience, and the expense of persons with disabilities, others see in them an invitation to learn how to love deeply without counting the cost. God will demand an accounting. Adapted from remarks delivered at the Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life.
Michael Stokes Paulsen,
January 23, 2012
39 years ago, the Supreme Court delivered a radical, legally untenable, immoral decision. It has forfeited its entitlement to have its decisions respected, and followed, by the other branches of government, by the states, and by the people.
Michael Fragoso,
January 20, 2012
The Obama administration’s efforts to regulate the cellular-phone service market through a decades-old trust-busting ideology is at odds with the courts’ more recent “new learning” approach to market competition. And there are lessons here for pro-lifers.
Mark Signorelli,
January 19, 2012
Poetry establishes the polis, the ordered community, because poetry teaches men their “actual desires,” the desires that must be accommodated in any lasting and beneficial order. The second in a two-part series.
Mark Signorelli,
January 18, 2012
Modernist poetry embodies the philosophical perspective of late liberal Western society, giving form to the conception of freedom divorced from essence, the theoretical primacy of the individual, and the broad skepticism towards any notion of a rational human nature. The first in a two-part series.
Matthew O'Brien,
January 17, 2012
The construction of an ethical theory, as a general matter, inevitably implicates philosophical theology.
Justin Dyer and Kevin Stuart,
January 16, 2012
Martin Luther King, Jr., espoused a worldview repugnant to many of those who now claim his legacy.
Michael Stokes Paulsen,
January 13, 2012
In a recent decision, the Supreme Court has held that the First Amendment provides additional and independent rights to religious organizations, beyond those to which non-religious groups are entitled.
Emmett McGroarty and Jane Robbins,
January 12, 2012
The Obama Administration’s campaign against “bullying” and “harassment” in schools is a subterfuge to exert federal control over the minutiae of daily school operations and to impose its preferred cultural attitudes.
Adam J. MacLeod,
January 11, 2012
Aiding the deliberate destruction of human life has no place in the doctor’s job description.
Byron Johnson,
January 10, 2012
Senior citizens are less likely to support same-sex marriage than younger Americans, but that does not mean that they are anti-gay.
David Carroll Cochran,
January 09, 2012
Threats to religious freedom endanger the health of religious institutions, enfeebling rather than enlivening the moral content of our culture—a content that we all, believers and non-believers alike, rely upon to exercise our freedom.
Luis Tellez,
January 06, 2012
Economic, political, and ethical principles that encourage limited government must interact in our effort to secure long-term economic stability.
Joel Alicea,
January 05, 2012
Those who oppose judicial supremacy follow in the footsteps of Abraham Lincoln himself.
Angela Franks,
January 04, 2012
A new biography of Margaret Sanger fails to confront the Planned Parenthood founder’s ideological commitment to eugenics and population control.
Mark Stricherz,
December 21, 2011
In his new book, George McGovern refuses to acknowledge his role in fusing a Democratic coalition of lifestyle liberals and the public costs this has entailed.
Anne Hendershott,
December 20, 2011
Meet the academics who try to redefine pedophilia as “intergenerational intimacy.”
Christopher O. Tollefsen,
December 19, 2011
The absolute prohibition of intrinsically evil acts is the limit on one’s positive obligations.
Robert T. Miller,
December 16, 2011
Divine legislation functions to enforce moral absolutes, not to ground them.
Matthew J. Franck,
December 15, 2011
If tradition is not a good reason to limit marriage to a man and a woman, it is also not a good reason to limit it to only two people.
Carson Holloway,
December 14, 2011
Though racial and religious profiling offends our better feelings, it is nevertheless constitutional.
Matthew O'Brien,
December 13, 2011
If appeals to God get ruled out, either by disbelief in his existence or reluctance to rely upon it, then it isn’t possible to demonstrate that there are moral absolutes.
Wilson D. Miscamble,
December 12, 2011
Rather than simply denouncing Truman for his decision to employ the atomic bomb, his critics need to confront the harsh reality of war and seriously consider the lack of viable alternatives available to him.
Samuel Gregg,
December 09, 2011
The eurozone’s current crisis is an opportunity for Europe to explore new monetary options that challenge the hitherto dominant vision of the European Union’s economic future.
Michael Stokes Paulsen,
December 08, 2011
Freedom of religion means the right of religious persons, groups, and ideas to participate fully and equally in the life of the community and in the marketplace of ideas.
Helen Alvaré,
December 07, 2011
Family law has changed during the past 50 years to the detriment of child well-being, paving the way for the arguments in support of same-sex marriage. But there is a new strategy available to us to respond to this situation. The second in a two-part series.
Helen Alvaré,
December 06, 2011
The Supreme Court was more right than it knew during the past two centuries as it identified the state’s interest in marriage as children and their formation. The first in a two-part series.