Facebook Twitter Instagram Youtube Rss

The Ostrich Defense of Abortion

By
These abortion advocates stick their heads in the sand and demonstrate their ignorance of even the most basic facts of the pro-life position.

Law, Liberalism, and Luther: Beyond the Myths

By
Contrary to the popular, tidy narrative repeated by Robert Reilly and others, neither Luther nor his colleagues and heirs “abandoned” natural law. Nor did they recast it in a voluntarist mold. They embraced and defended it along entirely traditional lines.

Dishonoring the Dead: Moral and Constitutional Considerations on Fetal Disposition

By and
Texas’s humane dispositions aren’t about trying to sneakily ban abortion. They’re about whether states will be coerced to affirm abortion as a positive good rather than merely tolerating it as a tragic necessity.

Pressing Pause on the “Transgender Moment”: Ryan T. Anderson’s When Harry Became Sally

By
Ryan T. Anderson has written the definitive book on the transgender phenomenon—ranging across medicine, psychology, culture, sociology, law, and public policy. In doing so, he may have saved the minds and bodies—indeed, the very lives—of people he will never know.

We Must Reclaim Parental Rights as Building Blocks to a Healthy Society

By
In both the United Kingdom and the United States, the fundamental rights of parents have dangerously eroded, undermining the ability of parents to protect the welfare of their children, instill moral values, and pass on religious beliefs and practices.

Is Medieval Christianity the Solution to the Crisis of American Protestantism?

By
A new book seeks to diagnose the ills of contemporary Protestantism and, with help from C.S. Lewis, prescribes a course of treatment drawn from the rich history of Christianity.

Beyond Roe: A Global Roadmap for the Pro-Life Movement

By
We have reached a tipping point. Either abortion will be taken out of UN policy altogether, or it will be enshrined as an international right.

Is America Running Out of Patience with LGBT Activism?

By
From surprisingly fast and unexpected victory can come great hubris and the desire to utterly crush one’s opponents. Perhaps GLAAD and its allies should learn to practice what they preach: tolerance of other people’s beliefs and practices, even if they don’t fully understand them.

Could A Preemptive Strike on North Korea or Iran Be Morally Justified?

By
If mutually assured destruction no longer seems effective in dealing with the threat of nuclear attack by North Korea and Iran, what military options remain and what moral principles can guide their employment?

Religious Discrimination in Canada

By
Canada takes pride in being a progressive nation, but our government is relying on the same tired excuses for religious discrimination that the United States Supreme Court dismissed more than fifty years ago.

Notre Dame Swallows the Pill

By
The University has announced it is to be the sole funder, unaccompanied proprietor, and director of distribution of what it has solemnly declared for years to be an immoral service. But the Holy Spirit is not a consequentialist. God does not want us to weigh up pros and cons of adhering to the moral truth. And the greatest respect we can show others is to bear faithful witness to the truth.

Germain Grisez, Christian Philosopher

By
The whole of Grisez’s account of this sense of Christian philosophy repays study, not least as an exploration of the shape that philosophic wonder first takes in a Catholic educated by a warmly believing household; and then of the place of audacious questioning in a Christian faith firmly held for love of God and in hope for God’s Kingdom.

The Criminal Mind and the Moral Imagination: What Psychopaths Can Teach Us About Conscience

By
Just as evil may be understood as the absence of good, darkness as the absence of light, cold as the absence of heat, the absence of conscience presents itself as profoundly dehumanizing and destructive.

Alexander Hamilton: Revolutionary Conservative Lawyer

By
A new book illustrates how Alexander Hamilton used British legal traditions and the American judiciary to give a distinctive constitutional form to a new republic.

Why Senior Faculty Should Teach First-Year Students

By
Why aren’t we insisting that students be introduced to the discipline by those who know it best? Pawning these courses off on overworked junior faculty who are so busy grading they have no time to eat lunch, let alone publish or—worse yet—on adjunct faculty who are paid slave wages and have no benefits is unconscionable.

The Philosophical Contradictions of the Transgender Worldview

By
The thinking of transgender activists is inherently confused and filled with internal contradictions. Activists never acknowledge those contradictions. Instead, they opportunistically rely on whichever claim is useful at any given moment.

Casualties of a Social, Psychological, and Medical Fad: The Dangers of Transgender Ideology in Medicine

By
Dr. Paul McHugh is optimistic that the ascendency of transgender ideology is a passing fad. Yet the damage that transgender ideology can wreak in even just ten or fifteen years—the hormones, the surgery, the irreversible decisions, the mutilated bodies—is considerable.

Can We Stop Fighting Over Schools?

By
Most other nations with advanced levels of universal schooling provide public support to faith-based schools with no evident harm to their social fabric and with considerably less conflict over schooling. The time has come for the United States to adopt principled pluralism as the fundamental and equitable structure of our education system.

Orestes Brownson, Being Catholic, and Being American

By
The writings of Orestes Brownson can help contemporary Catholics make sense of the American Founding.

The Libertarian Case for Drug Prohibition

By
Freedom isn’t just the bare ability to do something; it is the ability to act under the influence of properly functioning cognitive faculties. If you value freedom, then you should oppose the legalization of recreational drugs.

Civic Chaos and the Myth of Autonomy

By
A regime that rejects the primacy of truth and attempts to upend our social nature will inevitably create conditions for civic unrest.

Transgenderism: A State-Sponsored Religion?

By
Gender dysphoria is a serious mental health issue. By contrast, transgenderism is a belief system that increasingly looks like a cultish religion—a modern day Gnosticism denying physical reality for deceived perceptions—being forced on the public by the state.

LOL: No Laughing Matter for Catholic Universities

By
In order to be considered a university at all by those who fancy themselves the arbiters of what counts as knowledge, the Catholic university must abandon its fundamental truth claims and its proper relationship with those entrusted with the proclamation of that truth.

It Stinketh: On the End (and The End?) of the Modern University

By
The modern university project, as articulated by the American Association of University Professors, is a project of planned obsolescence. Those who continue to proclaim that the principles of free and open inquiry and the marketplace of ideas are alive and well are fooling only themselves.