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The Libertarian Case for Drug Prohibition

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Freedom isn’t just the bare ability to do something; it is the ability to act under the influence of properly functioning cognitive faculties. If you value freedom, then you should oppose the legalization of recreational drugs.

Religious Exemptions Aren’t Special Privileges

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Why are Christian bakers and florists less worthy of accommodation than groups who would engage in nearly identical behavior for equally expressive, but not necessarily religious, purposes?

The Christian Baker’s Unanswered Legal Argument: Why the Strongest Objections Fail

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The Supreme Court is about to decide whether a baker has a First Amendment right not to be compelled to design and create cakes celebrating same-sex weddings. The baker’s best legal argument is simple, and it survives the best objections filed by the ACLU and Progressive scholars.

Hobby Lobby Billionaires, Skeptical Scholars, and the Museum of the Bible

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Candida Moss and Joel Baden sound an alarm about the Green family, owners of Hobby Lobby and founders of the Museum of the Bible. The real target here, though, is not so much the Greens as the evangelical Protestant view of the Bible that they embrace.

Antonin Scalia, Republican Schoolmaster

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Love of country and love of the Constitution—a simple and pure patriotism matched with a sophisticated historical sensibility—run through a new collection of Justice Antonin Scalia’s speeches.

A Path to Détente in the War over Abortion

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How can we make it more attractive, and more beneficial to everyone, for women facing unwanted pregnancy to choose to carry their babies to term? The first in a two-part series.

Minorities in High Office: The Case of the Jewish Justices

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A new book by David Dalin tells the fascinating stories of America’s Jewish Supreme Court justices.

Can We Stop an International Roe v. Wade?

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We must act now to protect unborn children not just at home, but around the world.

Labor, Leisure, and Public Discourse

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Labor Day gives us an important opportunity to reflect not only on the meaning of our work but also on how we choose to spend our leisure time.

Qatar: America’s Troublesome Little Ally

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The Saudi-Qatari feud is empowering Turkey and Iran, thereby changing the geopolitical map of the Middle East.

Does the Right Have a Future? Assessing the Conservative-Libertarian Debate

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Nathan Schlueter and Nikolai Wenzel’s book-length conservative-libertarian debate is a helpful tool for understanding an important conversation and provides the basis for a robust defense of liberty in the public sphere.

Understanding the Election: The How and the Why of 2016

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Political scientists James W. Ceaser, Andrew E. Busch, and John J. Pitney, Jr., take a hard look at the 2016 election, adding another book to their series of insightful election analyses.

What Tocqueville Prescribes for Our Crazy American Souls

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A new book by James Poulos reveals both the greatness and the limitations of Tocqueville.

Closing the Meaning Gap: Toward a Reconciliation of Communitarianism and Libertarianism

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Libertarian insights may be able to help communitarians close the meaning gap and build communities that matter.

Parental and Governmental Authority in Medical Decisions: The Tragic Case of Charlie Gard

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By preventing Charlie Gard from receiving further medical treatment, the United Kingdom is exceeding its legitimate authority, and violating the right of Connie Yates and Chris Gard to make an intimate and important family decision about how best to care for their sick child.

US Soccer’s Rainbow Pride Jerseys Exclude and Divide

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Athletes should be judged on talent, heart, and work ethic—not politics. Our national sports teams should represent the whole country, not any one political niche.

Listening: An Antidote to the Modern University’s Incoherence

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Our universities are struggling under competing epistemological trends. Teaching students to master these requires developing their power to listen.

What’s in a Name? Why Christians Should Be Wary of the Word “Transgender”

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The Christian worldview accepts the validity of people’s testimony that gender dysphoria is a real experience resulting in heartrending distress. The Christian worldview cannot, however, countenance the idea that men can become women or that women can become men.

The Calvinist Roots of American Social Order: Calvin, Witherspoon, and Madison

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Witherspoon and Madison’s Calvinist theology and political philosophy imparted a firm belief that self-interest could be harnessed, ambition checked, and power balanced within government so that liberty and the common good were made secure.

Out of the Cave, Into the Wardrobe

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The easiest test of a work’s true power is to ask whether or not it pulls us into the wardrobe and propels us out of the cave. If an author has inspired us to vacuum the carpets, wash the windows, or buy the groceries with brighter smiles on our faces, then he has done something truly wonderful.

Religious Freedom in the Muslim World: A Nuanced Appraisal

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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.

Patient Patriotism

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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.

On the Bipartisan Inadequacy of Governing Elites: A General Theory of Trump’s Victory

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A bipartisan record of inadequacy by governing elites incapable of admitting their failures led to the election of Donald Trump. Thankfully, America is vast, diverse, and free enough to give itself a new governing elite if the old one can’t learn.

Moderation and the Preservation of Democracy

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Preserving democratic freedom requires prudence and true moderation that acknowledges the complex conditions on which freedom depends.