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Sartre

Theory’s Rise and Fall  

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Theory, though it blazed brightly for a time, was doomed to burn out. It simply could not give a deep account of the human condition and of those things that are most important to being human—e.g., love, altruism, friendship, gratitude—that fully reflect the human experience. 
Talmud

America Saved the Jews. Can the Jews Save America? 

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Americans are fighting over who decides what’s true. Jews once argued for truth itself. Can Jews teach America how to argue yet remain united? 
political parties

A Democrat’s Ideological Journey on Abortion 

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So long as the pro-life movement is part of the GOP coalition, the attractiveness of the pro-life message is affected by the attractiveness of the GOP. And it’s hard to grow the pro-life tent if the pro-life movement is bound up with a hard-right GOP that is repellent to centrist and center-left voters. 
Odyssey

Homer Against the Attention Economy  

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What modern culture discards as redundant, the ancient poets understood as the foundation of memory, identity, and human connection. 
Constitution

The American Pope and the American Constitution 

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In his day, Brownson advocated for a “long-term, multi-pronged rediscovery of the true Constitution,” an ordered liberty founded on a balance of unity in diversity based on natural law and the pursuit of the common good. He challenges us to “rediscover the true Constitution.” Now would be an appropriate time to follow his advice. 
stressed out office worker

The Unravelling of The American Employment Compact 

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An economy that continually makes demands of its workers while offering little security in return cannot escape the consequences of social disintegration.
Adam Smith

Adam Smith and the Value of Connectivity 

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Adam Smith’s timeless perspectives on connectivity still help make sense of the world 250 years after he first published The Wealth of Nations.

Labor, Leisure, and Public Discourse

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Labor Day gives us an important opportunity to reflect not only on the meaning of our work but also on how we choose to spend our leisure time.
person teleworking on a laptop

AI, Automation, and the Meaning of Work 

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Abuse is no argument against proper use. But AI’s challenges and opportunities are bound up with identifying the scale and scope of proper use as well as the consequences of abuse, and how to distinguish one from another.
E pluribus unum

E Pluribus Unum, Yesterday and Today

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If America’s unity frays, the problem is probably not its diversity, but that America needs its many cultural groups—and perhaps new ones—to contribute more of their special strengths to public life. 
child using social media apps

The Origins and Consequences of Big Tech’s “Tobacco Moment”  

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It is up to American courts and legislators to create solutions that balance constitutional liberties with the need to protect children from preventable tragedies.
sad woman looking at her phone alone

Today’s Dating App Users Aren’t Happy. Technology Is Not Our Problem.  

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Technology is not our problem. Our problem is an obsessive concern for our own good, our distrust of others, and the terror of losing ourselves. No algorithm will solve this.
marriage

Amoris Patientia

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We have a choice. We can look at the Church’s teaching on the indissolubility of marriage as burdensome, or we can look at it as Görres describes, “as protection, preservation, guarantee, rootedness, as the greatest earthly security of all which one person can give to another.”
Girls running track

Common Sense Wins the Day in West Virginia v. B. P. J.

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The Court did not prescribe that states limit girls’ and women’s sports to the female sex. It merely held that states that did draw that line did not run afoul of Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause. For now, though, for girls like Adaleia Cross and for all friends of reason and common sense, the Supreme Court’s decision to call a spade a spade and sex sex is most welcome. 
Middle-aged professor

Beware the Old Man on Campus 

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There are certain universal and timeless truths about what works in a classroom that no technological advancement (even a humanoid robot) will ever change. And this knowledge is where being the old man on campus can have power and resonance. 
gay pride flag

Gay Pride 2026: Leaders Confessed Losing Control of Their Movement 

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Pride Month 2026 marked the date on which two of its groundbreaking leaders publicly confessed their movement’s ungovernable anthropological problem. 
AR-15

Originalism and Judicial Decadence 

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With the current Second Amendment jurisprudence, its practitioners on the Court have utterly lost their way.  
SCOTUS

The Bookshelf: Packing the Supreme Court 

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Of all our major institutions, the Supreme Court is still performing better, more reliably, with more integrity, than the presidency or the Congress. I am often disappointed by its rulings; so is everyone I know, though we may be disappointed by different ones. But it is not pervasively corrupt, incompetent, or tyrannical. Expand it for partisan reasons, and where is the stopping point?
lonely young women in 2026

Sexually Free, Emotionally Numb: Young Adult Women in 2026 

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Just like Adam felt lonely without Eve, and just like Rachel cried out to God in her barrenness, men and women will continue to look for each other and eventually meet. Joyfully, then, they will bear fruit. 
Toy Story 5

What Toy Story 5 Gets—and Misses—about Screen Time for Kids 

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Toy Story 5 should be applauded for showcasing both the harms and benefits of screens in a child’s life. But parents should not think their children will be just fine as long as they use technology “the right way.”
pandemic

Detours on the Road to Wisdom 

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Genuine humility is the road to wisdom.
Petrarch

A Giant on the Shoulders of Giants 

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If, in a hundred years, Petrarch has returned to his rightful place on the bookshelves, tongues, and souls of readers the world over, it will be thanks to the prodigious labors of A. M. Juster. 
Oxford University

Liberalism in the U.S. and the UK: A Q&A with Lord Nigel Biggar 

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The typical liberal virtues of respect and tolerance are far too thin. They need a wider array of supporting virtues: humility, docility, temperance, courage, etc. And that such traits are virtues is not obvious to every worldview.
family of three

Constitutional Parental Rights: No “Substantive Due Process” Required 

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Indeed, because our Constitution recognizes the right of both mother and father to the custody of their joint offspring, that Constitution surely permits—if not requires—all the states of our Union to publicly favor, once again, the lifelong “union between one man and one woman as husband and wife.”