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Grounding Our Right to Religious Freedom
Our right to religious freedom is best grounded in the universal duty to seek ultimate truth, and not in human autonomy.
Now That We’re All Haters…
To defend marriage, we must reframe the narratives that shape our culture and our minds.
Why Is It So Difficult to Discuss Marriage?
Redefining marriage will bring profound and perhaps unintended consequences for the ways in which we think of ourselves as men and women, and for the kind of society we live in. Adapted from the Foreword to The Meaning of Marriage (2006).
Jean Bethke Elshtain: Gifted Thinker and Courageous Woman
Jean Bethke Elshtain, our editorial board member and Witherspoon Institute Senior Fellow, fearlessly pursued truth irrespective of the prevailing orthodoxies in the academy and the broader intellectual world.
Losing My Religion: Faith, Family, and the Real Story of Secularization in the West
In her new book, Mary Eberstadt argues that the West started losing God when it started losing the natural family. If she is right, then churches need to encourage and promote family formation, and religious believers need to form families.
Dissecting Political Correctness
To resist the manipulative forces of political correctness, we must speak out and overcome the social isolation that breeds silence.
A Pulpit for Bullies
To campaign against the bullying of LGBT people as if disagreement with the gay lifestyle were an evil is itself a form of bullying.
Collaborative Reproduction and the Things We Should Not Do
The city council of Washington, DC should consider the psychological damage to children that would come of a new bill legalizing surrogacy contracts.
Principled Entitlement Reform: Private Ordering Needs Room to Grow
Private, not public, law enables healthy dependencies by carving out space for communities of people to deliberate together about what to do with the resources available to them.
A Moral Foundation for Entitlement Reform
Entitlement reform cannot succeed by eliminating dependence. Instead we should aim to promote healthy dependencies.
The New Article of Faith for Canadian Law Schools: Same-Sex Marriage
More evidence from Canada of the danger of allowing the endorsement of same-sex marriage to become a prerequisite to participation in public life.
Lessons on Conscience Protection from the UK
Unless Americans respond to the Supreme Court’s recent marriage decisions with greater protections for the rights of conscience, our first freedom is sure to lose force, just as it has in the UK.
What Are the Rights of Donor-Conceived People?
Third party reproduction corrupts the parent-child relationship and disrespects the humanity of donor-conceived people.
The Layman and the Scientist: A Response to Miller
The layman’s understanding of the world can’t be considered mere guesswork—it’s the necessary starting point for understanding reality.