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Recovering Friendship

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A friend is more than a form of entertainment. The utilitarian way app designers would have us pick friends off a menu reflects quite the opposite approach. Friendships are viewed as more comfortable and more disposable than Allan Bloom, C.S. Lewis, and the Talmud suggest they ought to be.
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The Age of Miracles and Misery Machines

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We have more material comforts than kings and merchant princes of old, and technological progress has wrought what would once be considered miracles. Yet our culture makes every effort to promote dissatisfaction, for there is money to be made when people are unhappy or bored with what they have. In an age of miracles, our phones are becoming misery machines.

Should Social Conservatives Embrace Nationalism?

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Could a new national conservative coalition enable Burkean conservatives to harness populist energy, using public policy to strengthen the core American institutions of family, religion, and country? Or will it inevitably degenerate into dehumanizing racism and xenophobia?

Striving for Digital Minimalism: Why We Need a Human-Centric Approach to Technology

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Technology promises to solve our problems, but it also creates new ones. That’s because we have failed to apply human-centric approaches to technology. We think in terms of productivity instead of human flourishing; connectivity instead of community. As a result, our tech use leaves us worse off than we were before—less free, less rested, less peaceful.

When Young People Aren’t Having Sex, Something’s Wrong

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When something as natural and ordered as erotic love is no longer being pursued, there is something deeply wrong with our society. Kate Julian’s Atlantic article “Why are Young People Having So Little Sex?” presents incontrovertible evidence that the experiment of “free love” without consequences, based solely on pleasure, has failed.

Springtime for Snowflakes: An NYU Professor Takes On Academia’s “Social Justice Warriors”

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Michael Rectenwald’s new book offers up passionate intellectual debate in a climate where the discursive righteousness, sexuality, sex, skin color, and feelings of the speaker too often matter more than the thoughts espoused. It is a portrait of the contemporary scene of academic freedom, which is anything but free, and even less academic.

Who Do You Think You Are? Identity in the Twenty-First Century

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We are more than our driver’s licenses, Social Security numbers, and credit cards.

Will the Trump Administration Push Back Against Transgender Ideology in Schools?

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Until policy-makers and the public realize the factual and moral bankruptcy of transgender ideology, pressure will continue to mount to normalize the tragically abnormal.

New York Courts Rule Against “Aid in Dying” and Warn of Its Dangers

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The New York Court of Appeals has dealt a resounding blow to the state’s assisted suicide lobby.

Transgender Suicides: What to Do About Them

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I have personally experienced gender dysphoria, and I explored transition in my early twenties. I am aware of the emotional struggle, but I am also aware of the empowering realization that I alone control how I perceive the world.

Legal Sex: Exchanging the Truth of Sex for the Lie of Gender

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Gender ideology leaves us de-sexed in law. The problem is not merely that our legal identity can now be chosen, but that it can now only be chosen.

Dear Mr. Trump: If You Want to Make America Great Again, You’ve Got to Start with Marriage

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If you want to make America great again, you cannot afford to ignore the role stable marriage plays in motivating our labor force and in our nation’s economic growth as a whole.
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The UN’s Push for “Same-Sex Marriage”

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In direct opposition to international law, both the central UN bureaucracy and individual Member States are aggressively promoting same-sex marriage worldwide.
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Europe, Multiculturalism, and Nihilism

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Europe can only emerge from its downward spiral by putting religious faith and respect for history and tradition at the center of our communal and personal lives.
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The Ambiguous Quest for Marriage Equality

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Do proponents of marriage equality want marriage equality or not? The rhetoric of marriage equality does not match the reality. Only if marriage is the union of a man and a woman does it make any sense to have paternity presumed without consent, incest and polygamy prohibited, and custody bestowed upon biological or presumed parents except for cause.
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Blind Resentment

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The struggle against Catholicism in today’s culture is not particularly about religion. It is a revolt against reason and reality. Many have internalized such resentment that they are unable to see truth.
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Community, Contemplation, and Computers: The Role of Technology in Education

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In order to lead students to wisdom, schools must be prepared to integrate technology in the classroom with moderation when it helps to facilitate real, authentic engagement, and they must be willing to set it aside when it pulls students away from such engagement.
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Justice and the Marriage Debate

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The just way to settle the marriage debate is to delink from marriage any benefits that apply to any group of people who cohabit and comingle assets, while preserving marriage as a permanent and exclusive union of a man and a woman to provide the optimal setting for raising children.
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Here’s Twenty Bucks: Don’t Have Babies

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Melinda Gates and the Family Planning Summit will waste 4.6 billion dollars on contraception for women in third world countries instead of addressing the educational and healthcare-related challenges pregnant mothers face.
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A Constitutional and Wise Way to Protect the Unborn: A Response to Paul Linton

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We should pass Unborn Child Protection Acts and begin the conversation about the pain of the unborn.
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Evangelicals and Politics: The Religious Right (Born 1979, Died 2000)

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The largely forgotten history of evangelical political activism forces us to re-evaluate the rights and wrongs of the Religious Right movement. The second in a three-part series.
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Privatizing Marriage Is Impossible

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We cannot escape the fact that marriage is an intrinsically public institution. We can’t avoid making collective decisions about its meaning and purpose. If we don’t do it explicitly, we will end up doing it implicitly.
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Defend Marriage: Moms and Dads Matter

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Presidential candidates in the next election should uphold marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
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Pornography and Socially Responsible Investing

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The practice of socially responsible investing, often associated with opposition to apartheid or support for environmental causes, can also be a way to battle the harms of pornography.
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