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The Problem with Gender Studies

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If gender studies is to serve as a helpful guide, it must abandon its invented dualisms of sex and gender, nature and nurture, embodiment and social construction. Gender sociologists need to study the way human beings actually live rather than the way they wish we would live.

William Shakespeare and the Socratic-Christian Heritage

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Though he certainly finds fault in distorted versions of Christian ideals, Shakespeare pays tribute to the truth, beauty, and goodness of genuine Christian virtue.

It’s Possible: Gays and Lesbians Can Have Happy Marriages

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Same-sex marriage is not the only option for gays and lesbians who seek the personal fulfillment and familial happiness that is the universal desire of the human heart.

Public Discourse: If We Can Keep It

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This Fourth of July, if you believe that the work we do improves the political discourse that is so vital to the preservation of our republic, won’t you make a gift to support the work of Public Discourse?

SCOTUS and Abortion: Three Failures and Opportunities for the Pro-Life Movement

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There comes a time where gross disregard for human life and for our constitutional order should stir us from docile obedience and impel us to resistance.

Brexit: Why Britain Voted Leave

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Arguments about the UK’s Brexit referendum were framed in terms of the UK’s global economic and political role. But the real issues for Brits were closer to home: whether they trusted their politicians to safeguard their national institutions and whether they believed that the European Union weakened these institutions.

Federal Policies on Transgender Students: Serving Neither the Community, the Family, nor the Transgender Student

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The recent “Dear Colleague” letter from the Departments of Justice and Education relies on an ideology of expressive individualism to handle issues of gender identity. It does so to the detriment of community, family, and those it intends to serve. It also eliminates one of the most basic and universally accepted forms of privacy.

On #NeverTrump (and #NeverHillary)

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Until a solid conservative independent candidate has made a run for the presidency and is coming up far short the Monday before the election, there is no reason for a conservative (or anyone else) to consider Donald Trump as the answer to the Democratic candidate.

For Christian Judges, Is Compromising Religious Beliefs “The Price of Citizenship”?

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In our emerging legal climate, Christians are to be admired for their dedication to moral principle, and they are welcome to act in accordance with it at home and at church. But once they venture into public, our new legal overlords tell us, they must act according to a different set of norms.

Neutered by Neutrality: The Abiding Influence of John Rawls, Part Two

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There will be no true justice—and no real political discourse—until the Rawlsian illusion of neutrality is rejected and the Rawlsian tyranny strangling political discourse is overthrown. The second of two parts.

Defeated by Default: The Abiding Influence of John Rawls, Part One

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John Rawls’s philosophy of jurisprudence permeates America’s top universities and law schools. The acceptance of his principles foreordained the Supreme Court’s decision on same-sex marriage and will do the same in future cases involving euthanasia, transgender rights, and polygamy. Part one of two.

Never Do Evil So Good May Come of It: Why Legislators Must Stop Justifying Surrogacy

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The law is a teacher. By legalizing surrogacy, Louisiana legislators are teaching people that it is morally permissible to use people as means to an end.

Donald Trump: An Old-fashioned Whig

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With Trump as nominee, social conservatives might think that by not voting for him they are keeping their hands clean. These people fail to recognize that under a Clinton regime there will be no refuge from a systematic agenda that seeks to destroy the very notion of “nature” and of any restraint on federal power.

Rendering the Sexed Body Legally Invisible: How Transgender Law Hurts Women

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The gross misappropriation of executive power to utterly remake the meaning of very basic legal terms threatens not only the structure of our government. It threatens the rule of law itself. This distortion of legal language is a particular threat to laws concerning women.
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A De-Sexed Society is a De-Humanized Society

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President Obama’s transgender directive isn’t about civil rights or bathroom use. It’s about state control over personal relationships.

Can Trump Be the Man Eisenhower Was?

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It’s time for another Morningside Heights Declaration.

The Politics of Passion: The Lesson of Thomas More

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If we want a just society, we must begin by recovering the right understanding of prudence. We must not commit the idealist’s error of making the best the enemy of the good.

The Meaninglessness of Our Political Discourse: A Lesson from George Orwell

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If a slogan can mean anything to anyone, who could oppose it?

Valuing Full-Time Motherhood

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While most Americans respect and appreciate mothers on an individual basis, we as a society devalue their vocation.

Why The Humanities Still Have Purpose

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The humanities have much to offer to professionals in every field, from science to law to finance—if only their defenders knew how to make a convincing case to the general public. Donald Drakeman’s new book offers several approaches to making that case.

The Bard, the Bathroom, and the Common Good: Shakespeare’s Timeless and Timely Political Thought

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Whether we discuss the nature of marriage or the rules governing bathroom use, Shakespeare calls on us to remember who we are as human beings and how our nature should be reflected in our society’s mores and laws.
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A Sporting Difference: On Men’s and Women’s Athletics

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Despite current efforts to level the playing field between men and women in every area, the differences between men’s and women’s professional and collegiate sports make clear that some inequalities are unavoidable. With strength and speed as the factors governing success, men’s athletics will always be more popular.
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An Originalist Critique of the Court’s Free Speech Tradition

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Free-speech jurisprudence has reached a state where it is acceptable to abridge speech on matters of public concern, but not on vile or private speech. And the Supreme Court has usurped the authority of line-drawing from the people to empower itself.
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Setting the Record Straight on Texas’s Abortion-Safety Law

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The Supreme Court is a vote away from unraveling years of incremental pro-life legislation as it examines the case surrounding Texas’ abortion-safety law HB2. But holding the abortion industry to a high standard of care should not be controversial, as the health of real women is at stake.
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