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Carson Holloway

Carson Holloway

Carson Holloway is a Washington Fellow in the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life and co-editor of The Political Writings of Alexander Hamilton (Cambridge University Press).

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A Modest Balanced Budget Proposal

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Constitutional amendments requiring Congress to pass a balanced budget are unrealistic and doomed to fail. It would be more effective to combat deficit spending by requiring the president to submit a balanced budget.
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Thanksgiving and the Constitution

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Strict separation of church and state would require us to throw out Thanksgiving as a religious holiday proclaimed by the president. Instead, we should embrace Thanksgiving and throw out strict separationism as a misguided interpretation of the Constitution.
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Conservatism and Freedom

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Conservatives need to refine their understanding and presentation of the moral substance of their cause, crafting a message that appeals to both reason and imagination.
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The Perils of Liberal Moralism: On Syria and Thomas More

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Our president’s assumption that he should punish Syria for a moral, but not legal, transgression undermines international law.
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America’s Declining Commitment to Self-Government

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The president and Congressional supporters of attacking Syria suggest by their actions a strong disregard for public opinion and self-government.
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Abraham Lincoln, the Supreme Court, and the Defense of Marriage Act

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Just as Lincoln rejected the Supreme Court’s reasoning in the Dred Scott decision, so too conservative leaders need to reject the Court’s faulty reasoning about DOMA. Anti-democratic judicial activism has become habitual only because our elected leaders have declined to respond to it with Lincoln’s clarity and firmness.
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The Boy Scouts’ Doomed Compromise

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The Boy Scouts’ new policy allowing openly gay members will fall to aggressive gay rights activists if not first to its own incoherence.
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Justice Sotomayor and the Path to Polygamy

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The oral arguments on Proposition 8 at the Supreme Court suggest that there is very good reason to believe that the declaration of a “right” to same-sex marriage will set us on the path to polygamy.
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Same-Sex Marriage and the Abyss of Nihilism

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We cannot embrace same-sex marriage and live in continuity with our past as a civilization. To embrace it is to deny that tradition, revelation, reason, and nature have any authority over us.
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An Unrecognizable America

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If the HHS mandate is enforced, our government may provoke a schism in the American Catholic Church and will reduce faithful Catholics to second-class citizenship.
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It’s a Wonderful Country: Pottersville or Bedford Falls?

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In the classic Christmas film “It’s a Wonderful Life,” the humane society of Bedford Falls is built on conservative principles, not contemporary liberal ones.
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“Fantasy Slut League” and Natural Law

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A “Fantasy Slut League” created by high school boys in California suggests the reality of natural law even in those minds whose view of sexuality has been distorted by our culture.
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Barack Obama and the Perilous Politics of Progress

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Charles Kesler’s new book shows that President Obama’s grandiose progressive ambitions, like those of his progressive predecessors, accord neither with the American character nor with human nature.
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Inequality and Elite Failure

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Is inequality the cause of our worst social ills?
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The Overlooked Meaning of Bill Clinton’s DNC Address

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Praise for Bill Clinton’s recent address at the Democratic National Convention overlooks the fact that his promiscuity and perjury as president make his presence there a scandal.
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In Defense of Voting Regulations

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Though many liberals are eager to denounce regulations of the right to vote as “voter suppression,” requiring citizens to show that they can cast a properly-informed ballot ensures that the right to vote, like other rights, is exercised prudently.
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In Defense of John Roberts

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The Supreme Court should be an apolitical institution dedicated to enforcing the minimal and clear requirements of the Constitution.
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Cruelty Well Used: Machiavelli, Walker, and Romney?

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Machiavelli’s advice to princes holds important lessons for Mitt Romney if he is elected president.
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Why Birtherism Won’t Die

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Birtherism survives as an unreasonable surrogate for the public discussion that the left has stifled.
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Self-Government and Judicial Review

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Liberals and conservatives alike often complain hypocritically about judicial activism. If we are to avoid letting judicial activism become rule in favor of whatever causes justices approve, then we should make the presumption of constitutionality a basic principle of judicial review.
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The President’s Still Contorted Position on Same-Sex Marriage

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Given the legal principles involved in recognizing same-sex relationships as marriages, it’s hard to see any coherence in President Obama’s statement.
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Libertarianism, Conservatism, and Egalitarianism

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Libertarians and conservatives should not allow their differences to impede political cooperation against the common adversary: egalitarian liberalism.
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The Occupy Movement’s Vacuous Critique of Inequality

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The Occupy Movement should be an occasion for the American left to rethink its own moral crusades, which turn out to be morally corrosive and hence incompatible with any serious commitment to social justice.
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The Costs of Contraception

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The negative side-effects of contraception are often ignored in our public discourse, but a truly free decision to use or not use them—and whether to use government to promote them—depends on a frank acknowledgement of their costs along with their alleged benefits.
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