Election 2012: Render Unto Ceaser
Obama’s re-election was not inevitable. He won because he secured the votes he absolutely needed and convinced many others simply not to vote.
The Data Are In: Religious Private Schools Deserve a Second Look
A recent meta-analysis of 90 studies on religious private schools, traditional public schools, and charter schools shows that students perform best academically and behaviorally when they attend religious private schools.
Evolution and the Eye Test
Darwin’s evolutionary theory rests on a problematic premise: Our senses don’t tell us the truth about nature.
The Boy Scouts’ Doomed Compromise
The Boy Scouts’ new policy allowing openly gay members will fall to aggressive gay rights activists if not first to its own incoherence.
Natural Law and the Economy: A Reply to Miller
Natural law does not demand capitalism, but we can deduce from natural law that some institutions that are key to market economies are normally just, while practices key to socialist arrangements are usually unjust.
The New Birds and the Bees
Our language about sexuality is dominated by public health, with its talk of risk, “protection,” health, choice, and rights. In so doing we scoff at babies—the crowning glory of human creativity—and where they come from.
Morality and Economic Freedom: A Response to Gregg
Aristotelian-Thomistic moral philosophy doesn’t imply that every economy should be capitalist.
Negligence, Insensitivity, or Murder?
Kermit Gosnell was not sentenced to life imprisonment for sloppiness, for insensitivity, for bad keepsakes, for a backed up drain, for fleas, or even for making women suffer. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering three babies.
Kermit Gosnell: Epiphany for Birthers?
It is neither the impossibility of writing clear laws nor our inability to witness abortion that stops us from making it illegal. Instead it is the will to kill for convenience that drives some people to sustain the fiction that human life begins at birth.
The Common Good: Instrumental But Not Just Contractual
Is the fundamental and essential point of forming the polity the polity itself, or is the polity primarily a means of protecting and achieving many other valuable ends?
Man the Political Animal: On the Intrinsic Goodness of Political Community
Our arguments for limited government should recognize political community as an intrinsic good, not mistake it for a merely instrumental one.
Justice and the Marriage Debate
The just way to settle the marriage debate is to delink from marriage any benefits that apply to any group of people who cohabit and comingle assets, while preserving marriage as a permanent and exclusive union of a man and a woman to provide the optimal setting for raising children.
Kermit Gosnell and the Logic of “Pro-Choice”
Kermit Gosnell has been the equivalent of the American slave-dealer—someone who has done work rendered absolutely necessary by the twisted laws of his regime, but who has nevertheless been ignored or regarded with unease, and even repulsion, by his fellow citizens.
Did Senator Lee Forget the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act?
We don’t need a new resolution from Congress to address the wrongs of clinics like Kermit Gosnell’s—the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act already serves that purpose, and we should restore the civil penalties originally attached to it.
Gosnell, Law, and Modest First Steps
The Gosnell case shows us that a society’s laws teach, and if they teach a lesson of injustice they will corrupt its people over time. Indeed, contemporary abortion jurisprudence undermines the very notion of natural rights and constitutional government.
Conservatives and the Non-Triumph of Capitalism
Conservatives need to stop shying away from principled, as opposed to merely utilitarian, defenses of economic freedom and its associated institutions.
Why Congress Should Support a New Eisenhower Memorial
The proposed design for the Eisenhower Memorial should be rejected for one that accords with our capital’s classical tradition of architecture and with the nature of monuments themselves—to make a simple, clear statement easily accessible to the public. Adapted from testimony given before the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands of the House Committee on Natural Resources.
The Feminist, Pro-Father, and Pro-Child Case against No-Fault Divorce
No-fault divorce hurts women, men, and children. So why is it still legal?
Truth, Responsibility, and Love
The Regent University 2013 Commencement Address, delivered May 4, 2013.
After Beauty
Just as our culture’s rejection of an essential human nature wreaked havoc on our moral thought, so too our rejection of the concept of form has made our artwork incoherent.
Justice Kennedy’s 40,000 Children
During oral arguments on Prop 8, Justice Kennedy alluded to the views of children of same-sex couples as if their desires and concerns are identical to and uncritical of their parents’ decisions. But the reality is far more complicated.
Video Keno: Pennsylvania’s Leviathan?
There is no right to lose oneself in a game of chance for the state’s benefit, and more than that there is no good in it. Video keno contracts liberty and virtue while accelerating the state’s colonization of civil society.
