Hadith and Apostasy
The part of the Muslim tradition usually cited in support of killing apostates has been gravely misunderstood.
Equal Basic Rights for All, Born and Unborn
Not only those with a “future-like-ours,” but all human beings possess equal basic rights.
Marriage and Procreation: Avoiding Bad Arguments
Defenders of conjugal marriage must be careful to not obscure the true nature of marriage—and the state’s true interest in promoting it.
Marriage and Procreation: The Intrinsic Connection
There is an intrinsic link between marriage and procreation, but this does not mean that infertile couples cannot really be married.
Bored to Death
We live in days of distraction.
Where the Abortion Debate Stands
A new book provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and even-handed presentation of the abortion argument.
The Prenatal Testing Sham
On this year’s World Down Syndrome Day, Mark Leach discusses the unacknowledged effects of prenatal testing.
What Marriage Has Become
Marriage is fundamentally a pre-political institution.
Diversity, Dignity, and My Daughter
An anti-bullying program’s political slant leads one mother to reflect on the real meaning of diversity and dignity.
Democracy, Foreign Policy, and American Values
America has an obligation to look after its own interests.
On Aristotle’s Wide Applicability
Aristotelian virtue ethics has very little to say about what is a good political structure or economic system.
Defending Alasdair MacIntyre’s Economics
Alasdair MacIntyre may be wrong about the details of finance, but he is right on the largest questions of political economy.
Business vs. the Market
Public employee unions aren’t the only seekers of government largesse.
The Progressive Case for Conscience Protection
Have progressives abandoned the liberty of conscience?
John Locke and the Evangelical Retreat from Marriage
John Locke’s philosophy gives no support to those who would seek to endorse same-sex civil marriage.
Premarital Sex in America
Dispelling the sexual myths of America’s emerging adults.
Roe to the Rescue?
Roe v. Wade could prove an unlikely source of pro-life conscience protection.
Obama, DOMA, and Constitutional Responsibility
President Obama’s decision to refuse to defend DOMA is not an act of executive assertion so much as an expression of deep deference to the courts.
Obama’s Unreasonable Abandonment of DOMA
President Obama has dropped the defense of marriage out of political convenience rather than reasonable opposition.
Bernard Nathanson: A Life Transformed by Truth
A man who made a career of death and lies became a hero for life and truth.
The Quranic Case Against Killing Apostates
A leading Muslim scholar questions whether foundational texts of Islam really do prescribe death for leaving Islam.
Repelling the Attack on Conscience
A new bill is needed to fix the healthcare law’s failure to adequately safeguard conscience
Did Pius XII Lie to Save Jews?
A historian looks at how one man sought to serve both truth and love.
Political Responsibility and Exceptionless Moral Norms
What exceptionless moral norms are we willing to discard for the sake of a good cause?
