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The Intuitive Guide to Religious Liberty Law

Public Discourse

Common sense can tell us whether particular citizens should be exempt from certain government policies for religious reasons. Codifying such instinctive judgments into formal statutes is more difficult.

Intolerance as Illiberalism

Public Discourse

An illiberal mindset is spreading across America, corrupting our culture and our politics. The first of a two-part series.

Polygamy and Human Dignity

Public Discourse

The normalization of polygamy would undermine our commitment to human dignity—our sense that each human being is to be valued as an end in him- or herself, and not merely as a means to others’ ends.

Science and the Embryo

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Senator Rubio was on solid ground in saying science has settled the question of when a human being’s life begins. Science does not need to wait on philosophy’s pronouncements to investigate what the human embryo is and when its life begins.

Twenty-Five Years After Tiananmen: China’s Fight for Human Rights

Public Discourse

A government that cannot face its own history is a government without a future. Memory and truth will give the Chinese people the courage to speak out for democracy, and Americans must join in the fight. Adapted from remarks delivered at the American Enterprise Institute.

Can Science Tell Us When Life Begins?

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“Science” can tell us when life begins, provided that we already know what to look for. Empirical biology alone cannot tell us what that is. Once we establish a metaphysical account of life, then empirical embryology can tell us whether the relevant conditions are met.