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Same-Sex Marriage and Human Fulfillment

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Public recognition of unions contrary to human flourishing will hurt, not help, the happiness of those who participate in them.
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Medieval Wisdom for Modern Universities

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Augustine, Aquinas, and Alexandria offer forgotten ideals regarding what learning is and the scale at which it flourishes.
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In Defense of Live Action

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Is lying ever justified?
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Does Marriage, or Anything, Have Essential Properties?

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A reply to Northwestern Law Professor Andrew Koppelman's second critique of "What is Marriage?"
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Kant the Bogey Man

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Kant was right: we need principles to guide our judgments.
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Just the Facts, Ma’am

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When a woman claims to be a man, should the university and the press play along?
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Tea Party Metaphysics: Economics and First Principles

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The Tea Party taps into the full social and cultural power of transcendent moral appeals in a way that social conservatives have never been able to do. The first in a two-part series.
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Four Lions: The Absurdity of Terror

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In the British film Four Lions, farcical humor meets terror-jihad, and it is a match made almost in heaven.
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Times of Clear and Present Danger

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A new book by Gabriel Schoenfeld examines the dangers and difficulties inherent in keeping state secrets.
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Friendship in Foreign Policy

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Both realists and idealists should cast off cold neutrality and take up friendship’s warm embrace.
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Religion, Journalism, and the New American Orthodoxy

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In an address delivered today before the Religion Newswriters Association, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Denver commended America's journalists of religion and challenged them to approach their important work with integrity, fairness, and humility.
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Women, Abortion, and the Brain

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Women are hard-wired for relationships—and a woman’s relationship to her baby is one of the most powerful of all, whether she realizes it or not. The hard-wiring of the brain may explain many women’s disturbing post-abortion feelings.
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The Sources of Liberal Intolerance

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Liberal intolerance is rooted in a secular disregard for the dignity of individuals, coupled with the veneration of Progress and the belief that liberal ideologies can’t win in public debate.
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Remembering the Pill

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The fiftieth anniversary of oral contraceptives is a reminder of all the things the Pill lets us forget.
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Interracial Marriage and Same-Sex Marriage

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Why the analogy fails.
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Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies

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A new book warns against the political consequences of abusing language.
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Beauty as a Conservative Birthright?

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A recent series by James Matthew Wilson highlights the connection between conservatism and beauty.
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What Will Replace Behemoth State University?

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New technological developments and pressing national needs suggest that the future of higher education may be one friendlier to the classical tradition of liberal education.
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A Legal Framework for Drone Attacks in Pakistan

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American drone attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan have become increasingly common and controversial. What broad principles should guide our use of these attacks?
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Policing the Global Financial Hit Squad

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In the wake of the financial crisis, market reform will require moral reform.
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CO2 is Not a Pollutant: Debunking a Global-Warming Myth

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In the wake of the "Climate-gate" controversy, a scientist at Princeton University argues for a sensible view on climate change and CO2.
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What’s Really the Matter With Pop Music?

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Popular music shapes us and our culture, but not only through its lyrics.
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Free Trade, Utility, and the Good

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Economists and other social scientists should take into account the integral flourishing of human beings and not just material utility. After doing so, defense of free trade becomes more—not less—important.
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The Limits of Free Trade

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Free trade brings with it financial benefits and human rewards. However, it sometimes must be limited if communities and people are to flourish.
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