More Than We Wish to Know: Chen Guangcheng and the Truth about Chinese Human Rights Abuses
We hear endlessly of “change” and “reform” in China, and the United States has premised its policies on these promises. The memoirs of Chen Guangcheng paint a very different portrait.
Michel Houellebecq and the Islamist Future of Europe
A best-selling new novel taps into an angst that has become an obsession in Europe.
Diversity in the Christian University
Within a Christian university, the legitimate goods of diversity must be balanced against a notion of unity, an idea of the particular “constitution” of a place—its heritage, its tradition, and the constituency it serves.
Fresh Theological Arguments for Zionism
Two new proposals, one by a leading Jewish theologian and the other by a group of Christian thinkers, provide fresh arguments for theological understandings of Israel.
Faith and Fragile Families
Two teenage alcoholics were about to split but, by the grace of God, hung on. The result: a sanctifying, generous, and gracious marriage with fifteen children and countless important lessons.
The Case for Private Property: A (New) Natural Law Analysis
At a time when debates about economic inequality occupy significant attention in the public square, Adam MacLeod offers a fresh way forward for thinking about private property and its contribution to the common good by rooting property rights in a robust account of freedom and human flourishing.
Criminalizing Scientific Controversy: Climate Change, Galileo, and Our Modern Inquisition
The proposed federal investigation into those who question man-made climate change is more dangerous to science than the Inquisition.
Jews, Marriage, and Religious Freedom
The same traits and tendencies that make Orthodox Jews appear uninvolved in political battles have also helped them preserve the belief that marriage is the union of one man and one woman.
Commercial Surrogacy: Stop It or Just Regulate It?
When motherhood becomes a mere avenue to a paycheck, both the woman and the child she carries are wronged. Surrogacy undermines the dignity of both women and children.
Mind the Gap: Neuroscience, Transhumanism, and Human Nature
Before we rush to embrace transhumanism, it is crucial to ask what it means to be human.
The HHS Mandate: The Legal Argument that Should Prevail at the Supreme Court
The Eighth Circuit Court has created the opportunity for religious freedom to win again in the Supreme Court. But it is Judge Daniel Manion of the Seventh Circuit Court who supplies the arguments that should triumph, for everyone’s freedom.
Celebrating the Remarkable Intellectual Achievements of John Finnis
A superb collection of essays engages, challenges, and praises the work of the formidable John Finnis. Always acute in mental power, Finnis is also at turns witty and profound.
Ultrasounds and Ultimate Moral Choices
By pointing out the ways in which prenatal ultrasound alters our fundamental familial relationships, philosopher Peter-Paul Verbeek makes us more aware of its moral effects.
To Whom Do Children Belong? A Defense of Parental Authority
Parents have unique authority over their children because they bear non-transferable obligations toward their children. The state must respect the right of parents to fulfill their duties toward their children. The second in a two-part series.
To Whom Do Children Belong? How Same-Sex Marriage Threatens Parental Rights
Same-sex marriage further encourages the state to encroach on the domain of that indispensable pre-political community, the family. The first in a two-part series.
Defining Diversity
Administrators and faculty are quick to appeal to and develop programs around “diversity.” But what is diversity? It is neither a virtue, nor a basic good, nor even a generally positive descriptor. The commitment to diversity at many universities requires more scrutiny than it is typically given.
Medicine, Health, and Sexual Liberation: Friends or Foes?
It is a grave mistake to distort medicine for ideological purposes.
