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Chief Justice Roberts and the Changing Conservative Legal Movement

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The clash between Chief Justice Roberts’ opinion and that of the joint dissenters is best seen as a clash between two visions of judicial restraint, and two eras of the conservative legal movement.
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Pornography, Respect, and Responsibility: A Letter to the Hotel Industry

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A letter on pornography and business ethics written by two prominent public intellectuals—one a Christian, one a Muslim—sent to hotel industry executives last week.
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Immigration: He Who Is Without Sin

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Those who complain about illegal immigration are still morally complicit in the problem: they gladly take advantage of cheaper prices made possible by undocumented workers.
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Casey at Twenty: Lessons from a Judicial Disaster

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The lesson of Casey is that the nomination and confirmation of judges with a sound judicial philosophy is an essential foundation stone of a culture of life.
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Casey: Enduring, Entrenched, Intentionally Evil Egregious Error

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Casey is not a sound exposition of the Constitution, and its authority should be repudiated by all other actors in our constitutional system The second in a two-part series on the deadly significance of Planned Parenthood v. Casey
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Planned Parenthood v. Casey at Twenty: The Worst Constitutional Decision of All Time

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In its effects, methodology, substantive doctrine, conception of the judicial role and of judicial authority, and conception of what constitutes the rule of law, Casey is terribly significant and terribly wrong. The first in a two-part series on the deadly significance of Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
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At the Door of the Temple: Religious Freedom and the New Orthodoxy

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The new orthodoxy of secularism fails to understand that the virtues generated by religious freedom underpin and encourage a healthy democracy.
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Religious Freedom: Use It or Lose It

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Recalling the history of Americans’ and their British ancestors’ dedication to religious freedom offers lessons for our own struggles that lie ahead.
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Bigotry, David Blankenhorn, and the Future of Marriage

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The truth about something as important as marriage cannot be the price we pay to live with each other. The challenge of our time is to find new ways to combine truth and love. Giving up marriage is too high a price to pay. And it is not the last good we will be asked to surrender, unless we find the courage to stand.
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Purpose and Liberty

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Man cannot properly be free without that by virtue of which his freedom has meaning.
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The Newest Front in the Battle over Marriage

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Same-sex marriage should not come in the back door, via an arguably collusive lawsuit in which no one charged with the responsibility of enforcing the law actually defends it.
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Religious Freedom Under Siege: The Bishops Respond

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The American Catholic bishops’ “Fortnight for Freedom,” which begins tomorrow, continues a long tradition of defending religious freedom that began with Sir Thomas More and Bishop John Fisher.
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Lies and God

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Lying is always wrong because it always compromises the love of truth that we need to know and love God better.
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Lies and Truth

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Insofar as our lives are governed by reason, we cannot live without truth and a love for it.
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Supreme Court Take Notice: Two Sociologists Shift the Ground of the Marriage Debate

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Judges and justices who reasoned in favor of same-sex marriage based on social scientists’ “no differences” thesis must now contend with better research: Heterosexual married couples offer the best family structure for children, according to a new, rigorously researched sociological study.
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The Kids Aren’t All Right: New Family Structures and the “No Differences” Claim

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Two new peer-reviewed studies show that family structure matters and children do best when reared by their married biological mother and father.
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Franciscan, Ave Maria, and Obamacare

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Two Catholic universities’ decisions to drop student health-care plans show Obamacare’s long-term goal: Force Americans to choose government-subsidized plans over no insurance at all.
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The Conflict Really Lies within New Atheism

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In his new book "Where the Conflict Really Lies," Alvin Plantinga levels a devastating critique against the “new atheism” espoused by thinkers such as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens.
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Taking (Conscience) Rights Seriously

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As a pluralistic liberal democracy, we should craft our laws so that individuals will never be unnecessarily coerced into violating their consciences.
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He Was He, I Was I

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Neo-Darwinian models of human behavior cannot provide us with authentic self-knowledge; we need to revive the humanist disciplines—rhetoric, the arts, history, and above all things, poetry.
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Early Religious Freedom in America

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The Founders’ nuanced views of religion and politics prevent us from reading modern concerns about the separation of church and state into their words.
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Cruelty Well Used: Machiavelli, Walker, and Romney?

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Machiavelli’s advice to princes holds important lessons for Mitt Romney if he is elected president.
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Abortion and the Limits of Philosophy

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Unlike civil rights advocates of the 1960s, pro-life and pro-choice activists can be ambivalent about their causes because they are torn between their reason and their sentiments.
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Why Sexual Integrity Isn’t Out-of-Date

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A book about sex by J. Budziszewski uses natural law arguments to persuade young adults of the moral benefits of purity.
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