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Risk, Uncertainty, and Rule of Law

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An uncertain legal landscape puts future prosperity at risk.
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Reckoning with Roe v. Wade

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We are still reckoning with the legacy of Roe’s fraudulent jurisprudence.
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Marching on the Right Side of History

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Defenders of marriage should draw hope and courage from the pro-life movement’s success.
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The Pride of Silence

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Speaking out requires humility as well as courage.
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Scorpions: A Review of FDR’s Supreme Court Justices

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A new book by Noah Feldman explains how Roosevelt’s jurists came to power, and how their constitutional philosophies and disagreements shaped the court.
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The Lazy Slander of the Pro-Life Cause

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Do pro-lifers care about life after birth?
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Natural Law, Natural Rights, and American Constitutionalism

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Announcing the preview of a new online resource from the Witherspoon Institute
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Health, Safety, and Morals

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Whether the case involves pornography or genocide, there are times when authorities must intervene to protect human interests.
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Does Marriage, or Anything, Have Essential Properties?

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A reply to Northwestern Law Professor Andrew Koppelman's second critique of "What is Marriage?"
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The Fatal Position

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A new, supposedly objective book on the abortion debate relentlessly tips the scale against life.
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The Useless University

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The ancient tradition of pursuing knowledge for its own sake is slowly, quietly making a comeback.
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Incest and the Degradation of Our Vocabulary

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What’s wrong with a prominent professor’s incestuous relationship with his daughter.
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Designer Genes

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One scientist’s flawed argument for flawless humans.
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Marriage: No Avoiding the Central Question

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A reply to NYU Law Professor Kenji Yoshino’s second critique of “What is Marriage?”
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Marriage: Real Bodily Union

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A response to FamilyScholars Blogger Barry Deutsch.
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Marriage: Merely a Social Construct?

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A response to Northwestern Law Professor Andrew Koppelman.
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Christmas and Western Civilization

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Though Christmas is a religious holiday, secularists should appreciate its great contribution to Western Civilization: the lesson that all men are equal in their fundamental human dignity.
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Moral Principles and Human Happiness

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Moral principles should be derived from experience about what makes people happy, not from logic.
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Kant the Bogey Man

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Kant was right: we need principles to guide our judgments.
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The Argument Against Gay Marriage: And Why it Doesn’t Fail

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A response to NYU Law Professor Kenji Yoshino.
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Polyamory in the 21st Century

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A book on the polyamorous community by a “participant observer” provides a window into a weird, confused, and growing world.
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Socialism and Solidarity

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It is at our own peril that we ignore the nexus between moral convictions, the institutions in which they are realized, and our economic culture.
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Arsenic and the Meaning of Life

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The problem with reductionist accounts of life.
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William Brennan and the Creation of a Right to Abortion

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One man’s biography becomes the story of jurisprudence when constitutional interpretation is governed by personality and politics.