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Health Care, Abortion, and the Call of Conscience

Under the new health-care law, pro-lifers may have to accept inferior health plans, rather than wrongly pay into abortion providing ones.
Expansive and expensive welfare programs have brought European social democracies to the verge of catastrophe. Now the dynamics of democracy may be an impediment to economic reform.
Are market economies friends or foes of the environment?
More on the red-state blue-state abortion debate: a response to Koppelman, Carbone, and Cahn
An adapted commencement address arguing that traditional building provides us with a durable and beautiful built environment, which in turn provides the best physical and spatial context for the inventiveness and daring that modern life demands.
The recent actions of New Jersey governor Chris Christie have stirred up a political storm, but they are a reminder of the principles that underlie our politics.
Our failure to engage in substantive political debate can tempt us to write our opponents out of the political community.
The fiftieth anniversary of oral contraceptives is a reminder of all the things the Pill lets us forget.
The bailout of Greece is a stunning about-face that calls into question Europe’s commitment to a stable currency.
The recent SEC scandal reminds us of the prevalence of pornography. Steve Jobs’ decision to ban pornography on the iPhone might provide a way forward.
Can Thomistic art theory provide an alternative to postmodern “Neutralism”?
Illegal immigration is a national problem, but Arizona’s solution is not the answer. We need to secure our borders, allow a more generous pathway to citizenship, and create a guest worker program.
Three issues—the right to secure borders, the moral costs of illegal immigration, and the virtues of generous neighborliness and forgiveness—must be clarified in order to address the problems of immigration reform.
Sometimes a defense of shared liberal values can become the partisan promotion of one of liberalism's strands.
In a first-time feature, the editors of Public Discourse respond to the editors of Commonweal.
We should prefer natural law thinking to utilitarianism -- here's why.
Americans know how to talk of progress in terms of consumer goods, individual liberties, and power over nature, but have no use for the language of communal health and the idea of discipline. Wendell Berry provides a way forward.
Promoting a sexually permissive pop-culture in the Muslim world gets the true foundations of ordered liberty wrong. In defining our ideals by rejecting our enemy’s, we go from one extreme to another, and miss the virtuous mean.
America’s abortion laws may inspire a dangerous provision in Kenya’s new constitution.
Andrew Koppelman’s claim that red states and the religious right increase abortions doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.
Biological reductionism doesn’t disprove the notion of free will.
A new book warns against the political consequences of abusing language.
The claim that health care reform “made history” highlights how fully the political debate hinges on ideas of progress.