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The Real Health-Care Debate

Public Discourse

The real health-care debate isn’t whether we should have reform, but which type of reform to pursue: good reform versus bad reform. A senior economist explains how we can make high quality health-care available to all.

Social Conservatism Is Here to Stay

Public Discourse

The focus of social conservatives on family and human dignity is as necessary today as ever. Even if today’s hot-button issues fade, social conservatism will still be a force in our political life

The Pop-Culture Wars

Public Discourse

If we take seriously what is said by Plato and Aristotle, then we must also pay attention to what is being said by the likes of Taylor Swift and Kanye West.

What Is Public Discourse?

Public Discourse

If citizens and politicians believe that victory is to the loudest, or to the most dramatic, then loud and dramatic they will be. The process of public discourse, by contrast, is often deliberative, difficult, and slow. Its participants must, on occasion, “dare to be boring.”

All in the Family

Public Discourse

Though there is no hope of having a morally neutral definition of marriage, it is possible to have one based on human nature and supported by sound reasoning.