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Declaration of Independence

Without Virtue, Freedom Fails 

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We cannot expect to preserve a liberal democracy until each generation learns to embrace its civic responsibilities.
Classroom

Zero Trust in the Classroom 

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Doubt, suspicion, and anxiety must not outweigh love in the classroom. Zero trust has no place, but authentic relationships do.
Catholic Church

A Secular Love Letter to Catholicism—and Hope for a Catholic Presidency 

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Because it is politically heterodox, Catholic social thought can speak to voters across the political spectrum.    
poverty in America

Can We Break Generational Poverty Cycles?  

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PBS, like many other elite institutions, does poor single parents, their children, and the rest of us no favors by refusing to talk about how much the actions of these parents contribute to their fates and those of their children.
early suffragettes

Steelman or Strawman? Carrie Gress’s Something Wicked

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Regrettably, Gress's latest book is an exercise in dispatching straw men of its own making.
political wars

Why Are Conservatism and Modern Liberalism at War? 

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To end the mirror wars we must turn toward the light they reflect—the transcendent good in which freedom and order, truth and love find their unity.
online gambling

Online Gambling Corrupts Sports—And Americans, Too 

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The legalization of sports betting, especially at the college level, is a corruption not only of athletics and of education but of American society in general.
happy child and father

Disability, Human Nature, and Rethinking Neurodiversity 

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We can value the strengths and perspectives of those with disabilities and their loved ones while affirming objective reality and universal human dignity.
US Capitol Building

What’s Wrong with Congress?

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Congress has some real problems. But it is not a hopeless case. We can improve it and revive representative government.
romance and dating

Is Romance Dead or Delayed?

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Why Young People Are Avoiding Dating ... And What We Can Do About It 
antique library with old bookshelves

The Bookshelf: Movements and Clerks 

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We do well to remind ourselves, as the late Christopher Lasch did, that what we now call the “laptop class” can make itself too independent, too insulated from the buffeting winds that others must struggle against.
Venezuela turmoil

“Operation Absolute Resolve” and Just War Tradition 

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Was the removal and arrest of Nicolas Maduro justified according to the just war tradition? The answer is yes, with a small caveat.
Bust of John Henry Newman, doctor of the Church

Newman’s Conscientious Maximalism 

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Our obligations are not limited to what human beings in positions of authority spell out for us. 
girls' basketball team

The Lady Griffins and Aiming Students Higher 

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The Academy of Classical Christian Studies’ Lady Griffins basketball team captured the attention of millions with their decision to forfeit their championship. This decision didn’t happen in a vacuum; it grew out of an education that seeks to aim students toward higher things.  
Pope Leo XIV Inauguration

Two Leos on Church and State

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The contemporary Leonine texts suggest that the Pope’s primary concern is about the downstream political consequences of religious liberty.
girls having coffee together

Body Literacy Is the New “Sex Ed” 

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A culture that teaches girls to silence their pain, medicate their cycles, and dismiss the body’s signals is a culture that will inevitably reap infertility, despair, and declining birthrates. A culture that teaches body literacy, by contrast, will raise young people who see their fertility as a vital sign of health and an essential part of their future.
gene editing

The MAHA Case for Advanced Genetic Editing 

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If the goal of medicine is to protect and restore life, then our efforts and investments should flow to therapies that treat the sick, not to technologies that eliminate them before they are born. 
person reading a fantasy novel outside under a tree

The Falcon’s Children: Ross Douthat’s (Mostly) Fantastic Fantasy 

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Is this tale imperfect? Yes. But it’s one that’s worth hearing regardless. 
Israel

What Is Zionism? What Is Christian Zionism? 

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Basic decency provides more than enough grounds for Christians to oppose hateful and irrational attacks against Jews and Israel. We should treat these episodes as tests of our courage and discernment, because that’s exactly what they are. 
Capitol Hill

The Powers of the Senate 

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There’s no point in writing laws if the courts won’t follow them. It’s the trial judges, not the president, who are sapping Congress’s power. Perhaps it’s time that Congress does something about it.  
immigration and family separation

The Dignity of the Family and American Democracy 

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There appears to be an intractable choice between family separation, on one hand, and a nation that does not enforce its own laws or protect its own borders, on the other. How to proceed? 
Maduro

The End of a Regime? Understanding the Extraction of Maduro

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The story of Maduro’s extraction is not a tale of foreign intervention. It is a story of internal collapse, human suffering, and the eventual recognition—by Venezuelans and by the world—that a government cannot indefinitely destroy the lives of its citizens without facing consequences.
Jonathan Haidt

Jonathan Haidt and the Limits of Expertise 

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We do not need experts to tell us how to get our kids out of the machine.  
Harvard Law

The Return to Tradition in the Law 

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If feats like the medieval preservation and subsequent revival of Roman law show us anything, it is that the steady, often thankless work of patient scholarship and steady teaching can provide sound footing on dry land.