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Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

The Ninth Circuit’s Religious Freedom Coup 

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For years, perhaps the most serious threat to religious organizations’ freedom to live according to their faith has been the ever-growing specter of nondiscrimination laws. The Ninth Circuit’s decision here offers perhaps the strongest opportunity we have seen yet to affirm the constitutional right of religious organizations to hire according to their faith. 
Ben Sasse

On Dying Well: Ben Sasse and the Vocation of Suffering 

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Ben Sasse’s recent announcement reveals to us both goods and virtues that show in his dying a glimmer of light, a stirring of hope, and the possibility of spring even in one’s final winter.
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Hamnet and the Myth of Radical Autonomy 

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That a story that demands we define ourselves by our duties of care to each other—not by individual success—should resonate with so many is perhaps a sign that the cultural tide is quietly turning. It’s time to remember that, if our interdependence makes us vulnerable, it’s also what gives us a sense of purpose. 
IVF lab

Big Tech Meets Big Fertility 

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If democracy means anything, it should mean some ability to take a deep breath before we permit Silicon Valley to hack baby-making in the same way it has remade so many other facets of our lives.
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Identity and Recognition Are the Polarized Polis’s Chief Virtues 

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Tocqueville’s insight anticipates Taylor’s: a democracy built on dialogical identity easily turns into a society where individuals depend on the crowd for self-definition.
inspiration for Rivendell in LOTR

Political Philology: J. R. R. Tolkien Against the Leftists 

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If I may be permitted to so step beyond my bounds and attempt to speak for what Tolkien’s advice might be, I believe his recommendation would be this: teach, read, and write poetry, for that is the first step toward viewing language as not merely a tool for communication, but a science, an art, a heritage, and a way in which man resembles God. 
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Why Are We So Pornsick? 

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Forming young men will be a lot easier if we remove the filth that is choking out loving and flourishing complementary relationships between men and women. 
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.