The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act: Unconstitutional and Unwise
Paul Benjamin Linton, May 16, 2012
The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act does not deserve the support of the public because it is unconstitutional and represents poor public policy.

Explaining Obama’s Evolution
Thomas Haine, May 15, 2012
The electorate will often forgive—and can even embrace—a clean conversion story, where a politician honestly changes his mind and admits to it. But on marriage, such a story should not be available for the President, who was either alarmingly befuddled for several years or merely lying.

The President’s Still Contorted Position on Same-Sex Marriage
Carson Holloway, May 14, 2012
Given the legal principles involved in recognizing same-sex relationships as marriages, it’s hard to see any coherence in President Obama’s statement.

Catholic Social Teaching and the Ryan Budget
Thomas V. Berg and James C. Capretta, May 11, 2012
Paul Ryan’s budget plan does not violate principles of Catholic social teaching; it is one prudent application of them.

Obama, Marriage, and the “Anti-Gay” Theme
Matthew J. Franck, May 10, 2012
Yesterday’s statement about same-sex marriage by President Obama and last week’s departure of a gay-rights activist from the Romney campaign reveal important lessons.

Judging Human Worth
Adam J. MacLeod, May 09, 2012
The failure to grasp the implications of intrinsic human worth plagues arguments for physician-assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia.

In the Courthouse was the Word
Anthony Esolen, May 08, 2012
Though we feel that we human beings are meant for something, not individually and arbitrarily, but together and truly, we lack the language and even the political sanction to think along those lines.

Two Steps from Reasonable About Marriage
Stephen J. Heaney, May 07, 2012
A thought experiment crystalizes the reality that the connection between sex and children is marriage’s central element, and consequently the contemporary idea of marriage as existing for the desires of adults makes little sense.

Liberalism Is Bad for Literature
Mark Bauerlein, May 04, 2012
Jeffrey Eugenides shows what happens to the novel when courtship and marriage lose their binding character.

Evangelicals and Politics: The Way Forward
Greg Forster, May 03, 2012
Virtuous citizenship requires building moral consensus across religious and cultural divides. The third in a three-part series.

Evangelicals and Politics: The Religious Right (Born 1979, Died 2000)
Greg Forster, May 02, 2012
The largely forgotten history of evangelical political activism forces us to re-evaluate the rights and wrongs of the Religious Right movement. The second in a three-part series.

Evangelicals and Politics: The Hundred Years’ War
Greg Forster, May 01, 2012
The legacy of the great Protestant schism a century ago continues to hinder evangelicals from finding satisfactory ways to participate in America’s civic order. The first in a three-part series.

Is Conscience Partisan? A Look at the Clinton, Moynihan, and Kennedy Records
Richard M. Doerflinger, April 30, 2012
When did respect for conscience rights, once a bipartisan consensus, become a “Republican war on women”?

Addressing the Needs of Expectant Mothers: A Reply to Rafie & Winsor
Mark W. Leach, April 27, 2012
National Down syndrome organizations should partner with medical organizations and testing laboratories that develop and profit from prenatal testing even while they fight for their accountability.

Successful Advocacy Begins in the Womb: A Reply to Mark Leach
Monica Rafie and Tracy Winsor, April 27, 2012
If advocacy efforts surrounding prenatal diagnosis focus only on the goal of informed decision-making, and the majority of even well-informed parents still decide to terminate, can we really deem that advocacy successful?

Beyond Conservatism and Libertarianism
Samuel Gregg, April 26, 2012
Despite their disagreements, conservatives and libertarians often agree on many things. Resolving their differences, however, means rejecting philosophical skepticism and taking right reason seriously.

Should Libertarians Be Conservatives?: The Tough Cases of Abortion and Marriage
Jay W. Richards, April 25, 2012
The libertarian commitment to free markets and limited government is best preserved within a broader conservative context.

Libertarianism, Conservatism, and Egalitarianism
Carson Holloway, April 24, 2012
Libertarians and conservatives should not allow their differences to impede political cooperation against the common adversary: egalitarian liberalism.

The Unprecedented, Extraordinary, Anti-democratic, Activist Power of Judicial Review
Michael Stokes Paulsen, April 23, 2012
President Obama’s recent quips about “judicial activism” do not amount to arguments. They are shallow sloganeering.

The Battle Against Nature’s Sexism
Mary Rose Somarriba, April 20, 2012
In her memoir, long-time abortionist Merle Hoffman wages a war against nature’s decree that only women can keep the human race going by bearing children.

Rediscovering Property
Adam J. MacLeod, April 19, 2012
Has the Supreme Court rediscovered the institution of property? In a recent unanimous affirmation of property owners’ rights, the Court gives us reason to hope.

Is the Natural Law Persuasive?
R.J. Snell, April 18, 2012
One can neither deny nor question the natural law’s persuasiveness except by asking questions, conducting inquiries, achieving understandings, reaching judgments, and making choices—all of which are the natural law at work.

Protecting Unborn Children from Pain
Teresa S. Collett, April 17, 2012
All citizens should support Pain-Capable Child Protection Acts because the unborn can feel pain prior to birth, and laws protecting them from pain are constitutional.

The Occupy Movement’s Vacuous Critique of Inequality
Carson Holloway, April 16, 2012
The Occupy Movement should be an occasion for the American left to rethink its own moral crusades, which turn out to be morally corrosive and hence incompatible with any serious commitment to social justice.

The Sperm of Sea Urchins and the Directedness of Natural Processes
William Carroll, April 13, 2012
Nature exhibits finality and purpose in its various activities, and chance is not, indeed cannot be, an explanation for this activity.

Libertarianism: Not So Wrong, After All! A Reply to Nathan Schlueter
Nikolai G. Wenzel, April 12, 2012
Libertarianism offers the best defense of individual rights that government can employ.

The Libertarian Double-Face and the Case for Conservatism: A Reply to Wenzel
Nathan Schlueter, April 11, 2012
Conservatives value individual liberty as much as libertarians, but they deny that freedom from coercion is the only form of liberty.

Pepsi, Proxies, and Pro-Life Respect for the Rule of (Corporate) Law
Michael Fragoso, April 10, 2012
Social activists opposed to the use of HEK-293—a kidney cell line derived from an aborted baby—in PepsiCo products should not respond with shareholder activism, because it wreaks political and economic havoc.

Confusion About Discrimination
Richard W. Garnett, April 05, 2012
Not all discrimination is wrong. While the government should regulate some forms of wrongful discrimination, other forms of discrimination lie beyond the purview of the state.

Privatizing Marriage Is Unjust to Children
Jennifer Roback Morse, April 04, 2012
The primary business of the state is justice. Because children cannot be autonomous, adult society has an obligation in justice to provide institutional structures that protect their most basic interests.

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