fbpx
Facebook Twitter Instagram Youtube Rss
US port

Rethinking the Tariffs Regime  

By
Economic freedom is inseparable from the ability to engage in economic transactions without government interference, even if that interference is predicated on a desire to eliminate external trade barriers. 

From the Archives: The Pursuit of Happiness Rightly Understood

By
The right to the pursuit of happiness is coherent only in the full theological context of the Declaration of Independence.
Obergefell case

The Legacy of Obergefell, Ten Years Later 

By
The single most durable legacy of Obergefell, it would seem, is the damage it has done to the culture of marriage and family in the United States. 
Medical aid in dying

New York’s Latest Assault on Human Dignity 

By
Genuine compassion calls us to a richer vision of end-of-life care than merely eliminating suffering.
Confessional

Obeying God Rather Than Men 

By
In the end, it’s not so much that the Church refuses to comply with such laws as that she cannot comply. It would be contrary to who she is.
college lecture hall

Conservative(s) Teaching and Classroom Neutrality 

By
An approach that incorporates first-person defense of beliefs actually held by the professor of record can accomplish these goals, while also demonstrating that amity and comity are desirable and achievable between those who disagree vigorously. Such an approach should be on the table in considering the reform of higher education. 
DEI

DEI Statements for Professors . . . and Plumbers 

By
It is only thanks to the work behind the scenes of office assistants, dining hall workers, and plumbers that universities and other elite organizations can and do operate relatively smoothly on a day-to-day basis. It would be good to know more about what exactly they think about DEI, about diversity statements, and about the state of affairs at the institutions where they are the ones who perform what truly is invisible labor. 
Ukraine

The Catholic Church and the Real History of Ukraine 

By
The Ukrainian Greek Catholic faithful, both lay and religious, are hard at work helping their country to forge a future worthy of human dignity.
sexual revolution

Victims of the Revolution 

By
Can we insist on the biological reality of sex while denying the biological reality of the unborn child? “This far and no further” has its limits. We should make tactical partnerships in the battles that can be won today. But we shouldn’t allow tactical alliances to cloud our vision of the truth.
Fatherhood Bookshelf

The Bookshelf: Exemplary Fathers in Classic Literature

By
In honor of Fathers’ Day, a few of our contributing editors and writers share their favorite father figures from classic literature.
Fatherhood

Generation, Priesthood, and the Nature of Fatherhood

By
Catholic men are called to follow the Lord Jesus, to live not lives of domination that demand submission from others but lives where their strength and talent are offered in self-sacrifice for those God has given them to serve. The virtuous mean between those extremes is the Way of the Cross, the path by which you find your life in losing it, the way by which you enter into joys you didn’t know existed on the far side of burdens you didn’t know you could bear.
US Department of Education

Dismantling the Department of Education Is Not Enough

By
For long-term success in protecting local control of public education, the National Education Association must go.
John Wesley

The Next Great Awakening 

By
An interdenominational religious revival, like the one John Wesley led, might be what we need to heal our civil society. 
conservatism in Canada

A Conservatism of Ideals 

By
This is the conservatism we need: not nostalgia and anachronistic social conservatism, not progressive liberalism with better branding, but a bold conservatism of clearly articulated ideals for human flourishing.
LDS Church

A New Political Theology of “Agency”

By
The touchstone of moral agency is neither the supposedly pre-modern attitude of “heteronomy,” nor the chimera of liberal “autonomy,” but the reality of productive, creative action under a personal God and Savior within an orderly and meaningful cosmos.  
LDS Church

Moral Agency and Sustainable Liberalism: Rauch’s Proposed Liberal-Christian Alliance

By
For believers eager to have a voice in a secular liberal society or simply to find peace and a home in such a society, and thus to avoid dispiriting “polarization,” Rauch’s appeal appears to resonate with a surprising power. 
Cross

The Dynamics of Exemption and Establishment 

By
Thinking through the relationship of exemption to political establishment is worthwhile apart from the result in any given case, especially for those of us who are both religious believers and American citizens. 
SCOTUS

Defending Parental Rights in the Modern Age: Pierce v. Society of Sisters at 100

By
The natural law account of parental rights is a substantively robust and reason-based position—one that must be defended for all Americans of all faiths and shades of belief.
Child going to school

Faith, Freedom, and Child Formation

By and
Parents’ authority over their children’s education is being challenged as much today as it was a century ago. Pierce remains a solid basis on which parents can insist on their proper place in the family and society. 
Elon Musk

The Radical Deficiency of Elon Musk’s Pronatalism 

By
At some point we have to be honest about what makes life truly good. Landing on Mars may be an incredible feat, but it is only love and the pursuit of meaningful communion with others that makes such an endeavor worthwhile in the first place.
homemaking

The Surgeon and the Homemaker 

By
How might our society change if we understood parenting as a skilled occupation?
Facebook Twitter Instagram Youtube Rss
Public Discourse © 2025 | All Rights Reserved