Why are progressives so intent on winning control of the public square? In his new book, Steven Smith argues that they are motivated by the same battle that was waged in ancient Rome: Paganism vs. Christianity, immanence vs. transcendence.
Author: Rachel Lu (Rachel Lu)
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Jonah Goldberg vs. Patrick Deneen: Is Liberalism a Blessing or a Curse?
Jonah Goldberg’s new book is a poignant reminder that we should never allow discouragement to swamp our sense of gratitude. As Americans, liberalism is our patrimony. Even recognizing the drawbacks, we should maintain a proper respect for that heritage.
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The Wisdom of the Neocons
Drawing on the wisdom of the neocons might point us towards a harder, but ultimately more fruitful, approach to our current political problems.
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Do Involved Parents Subvert the American Dream?
The happiest, freest, and most prosperous future available to Americans might not be the most egalitarian.
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Closing the Meaning Gap: Toward a Reconciliation of Communitarianism and Libertarianism
Libertarian insights may be able to help communitarians close the meaning gap and build communities that matter.
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Libertarian Atheists
Libertarians may miss certain cultural nuances that traditionalists are able to see, but the reverse is also true. In this moment of political transition, we should be grateful for minds that turn endlessly on the government-skeptical spit.
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Tea Party Elegy
Our Constitution alone will not be adequate protection if we allow the left to sweep through our mainstream culture and our institutions.
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The Trouble with Solidarity
Calls to unify the fractured Republican Party and reach out to disillusioned Trump voters will never succeed without a comprehensive vision for the future.
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The Collapse of Gender Sanity
Physiology doesn’t lie: Women are less effective than men at meeting military objectives, and far more likely to be injured in combat. Let’s stop denying reality in a misguided effort toward “equality” and agree that women should not be drafted to combat roles.
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Slaying the Hydra: Can Virtue Heal the American Right?
The modern administrative state and our militant secular culture are like two heads of a single hydra. To destroy the beast, we must deal with the monster in its totality.
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The Pleasures of Prudence: How Over-Regulation Hurts Doctors, Teachers, and All Workers
Workers must have the freedom to develop real expertise and to exercise this rational mastery in pursuit of good ends. Only in the pleasures of prudence can we truly realize those excellences of which human beings are capable.
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Republicans for (Career and Family) Choice
Republicans should not try to tell women what they or their families need. The best way to defuse the work-family problem is by sympathetically acknowledging its reality and promising women that they will work to open a wider variety of educational and professional alternatives for them.
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Conservatives and Women
Contemporary politicians are in a delicate position. If they don’t seem properly sympathetic to the challenges American women face, they are blamed for them. Yet there is no neat solution to these competing demands. The first in a two-part series.
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Millennials and Marriage
Young Americans have come to believe that they can only achieve “good” marriages through professional success and economic prosperity.