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Universities and the Dangers of Docility

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We need docile teachers and students, those unafraid of the fundamental questions and the highest things: those who want truth.

The Constitutional Power of the Electoral College

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The framers of the Constitution designed the elector system to balance the need for the people to have a voice and the desire to have a refined, informed body actually choose the president in order to avoid the election of a demagogue or charlatan.

Reason and the Existence of God

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Are traditional arguments for the existence of God at least suspect—if not false—in the light of what modern philosophy tells us about the limits of human understanding?

The Decline of Movement Conservatism and the Rise of the Alt-Right

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Donald Trump’s election has made one thing clear: right-wing politics, conservatism, and the Republican Party are not interchangeable.

The Promise and Peril of Making America Great: On Trumpism and Hamiltonianism

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Donald Trump’s approach to politics has real roots in American political history. Yet, as Alexander Hamilton warned, it is very dangerous to undermine a democratic people’s confidence in their own governing classes.

Common Core Catastrophe

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It is time to refocus President Trump’s attention upon Common Core and persuade him to ignite a national movement to roll it back. Catholic education, in particular, is undermined by adopting these national standards.

Don’t Let Assisted Suicide Come to the Nation’s Capital

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DC’s assisted suicide bill is the most expansive and dangerous our country has yet seen.

Make Religious Freedom Great Again

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Donald Trump should commit to protecting the free exercise of religion for all Americans of all faiths.

Modern Virtue Ethics Isn’t Really Aristotelian

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Jonathan Sanford argues that contemporary virtue ethicists ought to return to the work of Aristotle as a foundation for moral judgments.

Science: What Went Wrong?

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Since the seventeenth century, Rousseau’s influence has changed the way scientists approach their discipline—ironically, given that he based his theories on emotion and conjecture rather than observation and data. A return to rigorous standards of inquiry, unbiased by personal agendas, would restore science to its former position of strength.

Tea Party Elegy

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Our Constitution alone will not be adequate protection if we allow the left to sweep through our mainstream culture and our institutions.

What’s Religion Good For? Progressives Weigh In

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The answer many progressives give to the question, “What’s religion good for?” is troubling in at least two ways. Not only does it conflict with traditional understandings of religious freedom, it also does harm to the integrity of religion itself.

Declaring Equality Without Supplying Its Ground: Danielle Allen’s Our Declaration

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Our fundamental equality as rational created beings is the source of our inalienable rights. Failure to understand this makes it impossible to truly understand the Declaration or the principles of limited government.

Seeking Consensus: The Incoherence of a Singular Islam

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Debates about whether Islam is inherently violent obscure more than they clarify because they misconceive the nature of religious authority in Islam. A lack of central authority lies at the heart of the difficulties facing Muslim reformers and explains why it is so difficult to disentangle violence from Islam.

Moderation and the Preservation of Democracy

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Preserving democratic freedom requires prudence and true moderation that acknowledges the complex conditions on which freedom depends.

Abortion’s Miscarriage Problem

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By acknowledging the tragic reality of miscarriage and supporting those who grieve, we can build a culture of life and encourage our society to recognize the humanity of the unborn child.

The Double Mommy Trap: Two Mothers and No Rights for Junior

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The double maternity two-step is a forced march. The intended destination seems to be greater personal fulfillment for adults. But if we arrive there, what will be left of the rights of children?

Unmasking Liberalism

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A new book reveals the crumbling foundations of the myth of liberalism and urges the challenging task of rehabilitating virtue.

Legal Sex: Exchanging the Truth of Sex for the Lie of Gender

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Gender ideology leaves us de-sexed in law. The problem is not merely that our legal identity can now be chosen, but that it can now only be chosen.

Life Worthy of Life: Down Syndrome, Equality, and My Son Silas

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Those of us blessed by the love of someone with an extra twenty-first chromosome look forward to October. October invites me, along with all other parents of children with Down Syndrome, to proclaim loudly that our children live lives worthy of life.

Markets, Catholicism, and Libertarianism

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Supporting markets as the economic arrangements most likely to help promote human flourishing doesn’t necessarily mean you accept libertarian philosophical premises.

Calling All Electors: Throw the Election to the House, and You Just Might Save Our Country

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The Electoral College was conceived for just the kind of national leadership crisis we now face.

2016 and the Future of the Supreme Court

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What would happen if a justice with the judicial philosophy and record of Justice Ginsburg were to replace Justice Scalia on the Court?

Better to Give than to Receive: Catholicism and the Enlightenment

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In science and philosophy, politics and society, the Enlightenment and the Faith could and did bring mutual intelligibility to each other, showing no intrinsic incompatibility—“faith cannot collide with enlightened reason,” a new book reminds us, for truth cannot contradict truth.