Abortion, Divorce and “Same-Sex Marriage”: No Blood, No Foul?
Political legitimization of “private” sexual and marital choices causes much public harm. We have been personally harmed by the regimes of abortion and easy divorce.
Religious Liberty and the Ministerial Exception
An upcoming Supreme Court decision might give government, rather than religious organizations, the final say on who counts as a religious minister.
Down Syndrome Awareness Makes a Difference
New research on Down syndrome presents an overwhelmingly positive picture of how Down syndrome can affect individuals and families. These findings need to be shared as they will affect decisions made to accept prenatal testing and following a prenatal diagnosis.
Can Neuroscience Tell Us Anything About Virtue?
In a new bestseller, David Brooks contends that the “new sciences” point to the incredible reality and importance of old-fashioned things like education, character formation, and virtue.
Go to Jail and Get a Seminary Education?
Religious conversions can be pivotal in turning an inmate away from a life of crime, but only if the process of spiritual transformation continues outside the prison walls.
Don’t Put the Brain on Trial
Pure scientism is insufficient as a basis for criminal justice.
Reflections of a Questioner: The Palmetto Freedom Forum Revisited
The Judiciary doesn’t have the final word on the meaning of the Constitution, and Congress could step in to protect the 14th Amendment rights of the unborn.
Capital Punishment, Dignity, and Authority: A Response to Ed Feser
Nothing that a man does can change his nature as man, and so, considered in himself, it will always remain wrong to kill him. This should be the final judgment of practical reason when brought to bear on the question of capital punishment.
In Defense of Capital Punishment
If one accepts the legitimacy of punishment and the principle of proportionality, then it is impossible to claim that capital punishment is intrinsically wrong.
Promised Objectivity: Americans Receive Planned Parenthood Ideology
The HHS mandate on contraception is based on insufficient research and betrays the committee’s deep pro-contraceptive bias.
Progressive Impiety
Slandering their fathers while energetically progressing “somewhere,” the progressive is always in a position of impiety.
Conscience, Coercion, and Healthcare
A recent rule issued by the Obama administration threatens our nation’s healthcare by attacking the consciences of our nation’s healthcare providers.
Preventing Another Attack: International Religious Freedom
The advancement of international religious freedom is crucial for terrorism’s defeat.
Declaration of War: Ten Years Later
Under the Constitution, the Constitution prevails over international law. The Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), signed into law ten years ago this week, prescribed no time limitation or geographical limitation. It was, potentially, a world war of unlimited duration. And yet, our involvement in Libya is unconstitutional.
Let’s Talk about Abortion: A Response to Dennis O’Brien
Fetal killing imposes a serious bodily harm on an innocent human being. The law should prohibit abortion just as it does other serious harms to the well-being of persons, such as assault, rape, kidnapping, and theft.
Locke, Metaphysics, and the Challenge of America
John Locke is a deep cultural well from which we still can draw good water.
Keynesianism, Social Services, and Solvency
Growing national debt-to-income ratios need not become a threat to American solvency or a long-run impediment to implementation of our social policy choices. Historically-based approaches to social objectives can be improved through advances in economics.
Capital Punishment, Sanctity of Life, and Human Dignity
Intentional killing is always wrong, and support of capital punishment often stems from a misunderstanding of the nature of human dignity.
Global Warming, Evolution, and Presidential Politics: The Long Shadow of Galileo
Judging from the media’s response to Rick Perry’s Galileo reference in the Reagan debate, our discourse is still governed by the modern view that science and religion can only clash.
Assisted Suicide: The Forgotten Front in the Fight for Life
As the proponents of assisted suicide strive to legalize it in Massachusetts, we should take another look at their arguments and the deceptions therein.
A Bully-Free World?
New Jersey’s new anti-bullying legislation is misguided and unrealistic, seeking to eliminate conflict rather than resolve it.
Memorializing September 11th
What makes September 11th worthy of public memorializing is that it was not only an event in the lives of these individuals and their families; it was an event in the life of the American nation, an attack aimed at the American nation.
My Guantanamo Experience: Support Interrogation, Reject Torture
America should reject torture. This would reinforce our commitment to America’s founding values and support excellence in intelligence collection for the defense of our nation.
Flogging: The Best Hope for Our Broken Prison System?
A new book argues that flogging may be a more humane, efficient, and just punishment than incarceration.
