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Neuhaus and Liberalism

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A liberal polity is a conversational polity: it comprises human beings bound together in argument, aspiring to order their common life through the exercise of persuasion, not the application of power. A liberal society is therefore a special kind of intentional community.

Law, Liberalism, and Luther: Beyond the Myths

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Contrary to the popular, tidy narrative repeated by Robert Reilly and others, neither Luther nor his colleagues and heirs “abandoned” natural law. Nor did they recast it in a voluntarist mold. They embraced and defended it along entirely traditional lines.

Can Liberalism Change?

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In a paradoxical new book, Columbia University professor Mark Lilla correctly identifies the defects in contemporary liberalism and identity politics but cannot free himself from them.

John Stuart Mill’s Intolerant Faith and the Religion of Liberalism

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John Stuart Mill foreshadows the deeply intolerant faith and agenda of contemporary liberalism.

Harm, Neutrality, or Truth: What Is the Basis of Liberalism?

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Kevin Vallier’s recent book is a rich and rewarding attempt to reconcile people of faith with public reason liberalism.

The Liberalism of the Founding Fathers Is Not to Blame for Our Current Problems

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If today we see ill effects of individualism, it does not mean that we should blame them on the founders. Our problem is a cultural one, not some deep, all-encompassing flaw in our political system.

Unmasking Liberalism

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A new book reveals the crumbling foundations of the myth of liberalism and urges the challenging task of rehabilitating virtue.

Is Liberalism Dead?

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Kim R. Holmes's new book interweaves abstract philosophy with history, empirical data, and concrete narrative.
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Justice Kennedy and the Lonely Promethean Man of Liberalism

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Justice Kennedy’s Obergefell v. Hodges decision is anchored in the liberty to “define and express” one’s identity. But this view of man is not as exalted as it seems. According to Kennedy, self-defined man, if he’s unmarried, remains tragically lonely, and without state recognition, might even doubt his own dignity.
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Liberalism Can’t Understand Sex

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Because it reduces the human person into a mere vehicle for abstract rights, liberalism has no language to express the transcendence and sacrifice of human sexuality.
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How the United States Government Lost Its Liberalism

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Through executive orders and judicial overreach, American government has eroded the separation of powers and lost its commitment to liberal ideals. The second in a two-part series.
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Intolerance as Illiberalism

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An illiberal mindset is spreading across America, corrupting our culture and our politics. The first of a two-part series.
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A Fight Worth Having: Classical Liberalism vs. Authoritarian Progressivism

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What threatens human flourishing today are governments inspired by authoritarian progressivism.
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Liberalism’s Biggest Lie: If You Like Your Morality, You Can Keep Your Morality

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The unchecked progress of sexual liberalism means that we cannot say what kind of moral culture our children will inhabit as adults or, accordingly, what kind of moral culture will form our grandchildren. No responsible person can support such a movement.
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America’s Moderate Liberalism: Rediscovering Montesquieu, Recovering Balance

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The French philosopher Montesquieu’s principle of moderation taught the founders to reconcile Lockean liberalism, classical republicanism, and Christianity—a balance we could use today.
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The Reluctant Eudaimonist: The Flaws of “Pragmatic Liberalism”

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Robert Miller’s pragmatic liberalism fails to strike a satisfactory balance between Aristotelian-Thomistic eudaimonism and American liberalism because he does not defend the universality of moral principles.
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Liberalism’s Logic and America’s Challenge: A Reply to Schlueter and Muñoz

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The Founders’ vision of the “common good” was not the pre-modern natural law conception of an objective human good, but a conception of “mutual advantage” shaped by the social contract framework. This logic of liberalism has driven our country to its current political and cultural problems.
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Sustaining American Liberalism in Principle and Practice

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While we should reject misguided claims that our founders adopted political voluntarism, we should follow suggestions for strengthening civic life—and thereby sustain American liberalism—through local government, families, churches, and other civic associations.
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Natural Law Liberalism Beyond Romanticism

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To reject the presence of natural law in documents of the Founding era is to embrace both cynicism and romanticism.
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Sustainable Liberalism

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The solution to the political and moral crisis of our time does not lie in abandoning liberalism or in defending Lockeanism. It rests in the recovery of natural law liberalism—a sustainable public philosophy that is true to reason, to nature, and to Christian belief.
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Liberalism, Relativism, and the Novel: A Reply to Ramos

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How many Solzhenitsyns are occupying the pipelines of novelists in America?
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The Problem isn’t Liberalism, the Problem is “You”

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Even if the marriage plot has dissolved, the human drama remains. It just resurfaces in a different context.
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Liberalism Is Bad for Literature

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Jeffrey Eugenides shows what happens to the novel when courtship and marriage lose their binding character.
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Liberalism and Higher Education

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Sometimes a defense of shared liberal values can become the partisan promotion of one of liberalism's strands.
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