From Heels to Wheels: American Zoning Laws and the End of Western Public Space
Zoning codes used to favor settlement patterns scaled for human beings. No longer.
Same-Sex Marriage and Human Fulfillment
Public recognition of unions contrary to human flourishing will hurt, not help, the happiness of those who participate in them.
War and Moral Sanity: Nuclear Attacks
An exploration of how war affects people, and what it does to their natural moral instincts. The second in a two-part series.
War and Moral Sanity
An exploration of how war affects people, and what it does to their natural moral instincts. The first in a two-part series.
Kenji Yoshino’s Dream of Discorporation
Rather than trying to escape our bodies, we should see that our bodies make union with another possible.
God and Terror
Whether or not one likes religious actors, they are here to stay. The issue is not whether but when and how religious actors will enter public life and shape political outcomes. The third in a three-part series.
God and Democratic Diplomacy
We can no longer afford to hang on to secularization theories as we design policy for nations from Libya to Egypt, Iran to Pakistan, Nigeria to Indonesia, and the numerous other societies being reshaped by the partisans of God in the 21st century. The second in a three-part series.
God and Political Science
The view of global politics taught by political scientists is the poorest possible preparation for the era of global politics in which we now live. As we address central geopolitical challenges, we must delve into the details of religion and religious actors. The first in a three-part series.
Thoughts About Oughts
The requirements of natural reason in the pursuit of goods provide a more adequate starting point for moral reflection than the theological considerations in which moral reflection should come to its fruition.
What’s Good? Wherefore Ought?
Only an ethics rooted in the divinely revealed truth of creation-as-gift and creator-as-love can coherently and adequately make sense of the universal experience of ought.
Closing the Door on Education Innovation
The feds are working behind the scenes to nationalize K-12 curriculum, including a national test. This would be bad for schools, and disastrous for the culture.
Dismal Science Redeemed: Where to Go from Here
How and why considering distribution will yield a complete economic science. The second in a two-part series.
Dismal Science Redeemed: What’s Gone Wrong
A new book challenges us to rediscover the missing element of our economic science. The first in a two-part series.
The Abolition of Marriage
New conceptions of marriage threaten to make “traditional marriage” not only unfashionable but also inaccessible.
Same-Sex Marriage and the Assault on Institutional Integrity
The King & Spalding skedaddle is a blow to the institutional integrity of our legal system. Intimidation is now the default tactic of same-sex marriage advocates.
Against Divorce: David Hume Defends Traditional Marriage
Learning from a religious skeptic’s rejection of polygamy and easy divorce.
Suffer the Little Children: Cohabitation and the Abuse of America’s Children
Cohabitation does not serve the “best interest” of children, regardless of what the courts say.
Building Virtue
Virtue can only be lived out in communities. But which communities are best suited to promoting virtue?
Sexual Revolution: Defend It, If You Can
Let the sexual revolution be justified on the grounds of the common good.
Democratic Bioethics and Eugenics
Prominent bioethicists Arthur Caplan and Robert P. George on the role of bioethics in a democracy and the dangers of eugenics.
Stem Cells: The Scientists Knew They Were Lying?
Prominent bioethicists Arthur Caplan and Robert P. George on the danger of discounting ethics and overselling science.
Politics and the Devil
A healthy democracy depends on people of conviction working hard to advance their ideas in the public square—respectfully and peacefully, but vigorously and without apologies. We cannot simultaneously serve the poor and accept the legal killing of unborn children.
Terry Jones’ Lethal Recklessness
A person bears moral responsibility for the foreseeable side effects of his reckless actions.
Medieval Wisdom for Modern Universities
Augustine, Aquinas, and Alexandria offer forgotten ideals regarding what learning is and the scale at which it flourishes.