Neither Reformation nor Enlightenment: The Seeds of Religious Freedom Within Islam
Contrary to what one often hears in Western media, Islam needs neither a Reformation nor an Enlightenment. Islam must—and can—find resources from within its tradition to defend the full human right to religious freedom. The second in a two-part series.
Religious Freedom in the Muslim World: A Nuanced Appraisal
What is the status of religious freedom in Islam, and what are its prospects? An answer to this question must begin with a nuanced appraisal of the political theologies that govern different Muslim nations. The first in a two-part series.
Kermit Gosnell and the Ideology of Abortion on Demand
If this butcher could carry on virtually in the open for so many years—if he could even be permitted one more “procedure” before police on the scene put an end to his sordid business—how many other clinics like his are there?
Shedding Light on Progressivism’s Dark Side
A new book details the progressive movement’s reliance on eugenics and race science as well as its effort to exclude the disabled, blacks, immigrants, the poor, and women from full participation in American society.
Racketeer for Life: The Memoir of a Pro-Life Activist
By carefully documenting his unique contribution to street level pro-life activism, Joseph Scheidler has done an exceptionally fine service both for his readers and for the pro-life movement.
Science, Embryonic Autonomy, and the Question of When Life Begins
A new study demonstrates that human embryos autonomously direct their own development from the very earliest moments of life—even when they are not in their mothers’ wombs.
Madisonian Thomism
Though it is often criticized as being based on Hobbesian principles, James Madison’s constitutional theory is basically Thomistic.
Patient Patriotism
Patriotism isn’t merely something you show in a parade; it means having to deal with people with whom you disagree, but whose lives are bound to yours as yours is to theirs, in a long, difficult, patient, and sometimes painful search for the common good.
Tocqueville and Democracy’s Fall in America
For Alexis de Tocqueville, American democracy’s passion for equality was a potentially fatal flaw—one that religion could help address. But what happens when religion also becomes preoccupied with equality?
Families, Schools, and Churches: The Building Blocks of a Healthy Social Ecology
To create a society in which human beings can flourish, we must support child-raising families, schools that intentionally cultivate the intellectual and moral virtues, and local church communities. The second of a two-part series.
Safeguarding the Conditions for an Authentic Human Ecology
If we are to safeguard the moral conditions for an authentic human ecology we must take far more seriously the care, nurture, and cultivation of children and young people in virtue. The first in a two-part series.
That Time I Turned a Routine Traffic Ticket into the Constitutional Trial of the Century
Laws that give municipal officials and their private contractors power to issue tickets via traffic cameras confer powers of both criminal and civil law while excusing them from the due process duties of both criminal and civil law.
Leo XIII, Abraham Kuyper, and the Foundations of Modern Christian Social Thought
For Christians who wish to restore our society, the writings of Leo XIII and Abraham Kuyper can provide a set of guiding principles.
Russian Hacking and Acts of War
Prudent foreign policy does not multiply the country’s enemies unnecessarily.
Toward an Urban Conservativism: Learning the Right Lessons from 2016
Facing an increasingly divided nation, the conservative movement must offer policies addressing the reality of life in urban centers.
Higher Education in Hell
A politicized education is illiberal by its own inner compulsions. It has almost the hideousness and chaos of hell itself, so inextricably coupled it is with the mire and passions of the passing day.
National Geographic‘s “Gender Revolution”: Bad Argument and Biased Ideology
Accepting the claims of transgender ideology requires papering over one’s conscience and making a mockery of the “law written on the heart” that our bodies bear witness to in our complementary design.
A Nine-Year-Old Boy is Spreading a “Contagion of Mass Delusion”
National Geographic’s cover photo is exploitation. The health and well-being of a child are being sacrificed to advance a political and cultural crusade.
Race, the Legacy of Slavery, and American Promise
A new documentary about the Thirteenth Amendment and the disproportionate imprisonment of African Americans is a wake-up call to conservatives who feel threatened by apparently unpatriotic protests or demands for racial justice.
Rebuilding Cultural and Intellectual Life: An Invitation to Witherspoon’s Summer Seminars
The Witherspoon Institute’s summer seminars help the university accomplish its purpose: to teach students to work together to pursue truth with humility and dedication.
