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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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Economic Liberalism and its Discontents

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If we are to restore confidence in free markets, we need a robust explanation of their moral value.
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Democrats, Obama, and Abortion: Turning Liberalism Incoherent

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Can the Democratic Party's awkward position on infanticide and abortion be regarded as simply a lesser matter in an ensemble of "other issues" of higher standing? Or does that position challenge the very coherence of everything else that a liberal party proclaims itself to be?
E pluribus unum

E Pluribus Unum, Yesterday and Today

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If America’s unity frays, the problem is probably not its diversity, but that America needs its many cultural groups—and perhaps new ones—to contribute more of their special strengths to public life. 
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The Bookshelf: Packing the Supreme Court 

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Of all our major institutions, the Supreme Court is still performing better, more reliably, with more integrity, than the presidency or the Congress. I am often disappointed by its rulings; so is everyone I know, though we may be disappointed by different ones. But it is not pervasively corrupt, incompetent, or tyrannical. Expand it for partisan reasons, and where is the stopping point?
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The Augustinian State of Social Conservatism 

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An Augustinian reading of the present moment would help social conservatives resist both triumphalism and despair. The renewal and invigoration now visible among many social conservatives may be a genuine mercy: a sign that the moral imagination—worn down though it is by the exhaustion of ambient progressivism—has not been entirely extinguished, and that many still perceive the disorder produced when freedom is detached from truth, embodiment, family, duty, and the created order.  
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Don’t Worry. Be Conservative.

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The war on spiritual poverty is worth fighting, and we need foot soldiers and generals who are willing to wage it. 
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The Bookshelf: When Words Are Deeds 

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The nation’s semiquincentennial, which we marked on July 4, was the occasion for a number of new books about the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution. I’m sure I’ll get around to reading some of those in future—if they’re good, they’re durable—but lately I’ve been revisiting some older works on the subject that still hold up. I’ll get to those in a moment, but first I want to consider what we have been celebrating this year. 
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Walking Alongside History 

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What Buckley got wrong about conservatism 
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Human Dignity without Metaphysics? 

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A culture that continually invokes dignity while refusing to discuss its foundations may discover that the concept gradually loses its internal coherence. If man possesses a unique and inviolable worth, then reality itself must contain some explanation for that fact. 
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America’s Two Constitutions  

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Reflections on the nature of the American experiment in ordered liberty 
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The Bookshelf: The 2026 Public Discourse Summer Reading List 

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Here’s what our editors are reading this summer.  
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The Bookshelf: Why Catholics Should Celebrate America’s 250th Birthday  

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From the Gospel, to Acts, to the Church Fathers, to the doctrine of the two swords and the freedom of the Church, to the recognition in modern times of the freedom of conscience as an unalienable right at the foundation of a free society: the very ideas of human equality, freedom, and limited government would never have borne the fruit we see in American society without the Christian—and Catholic—intellectual tradition supplying the argument.
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What’s Behind the Making of the MAGA New Right? 

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Field’s account is eye-opening. At the same time, as a professed “liberal,” she exhibits elements of excessive partisanship that weaken her argument. 
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Why the Left Must Recover a Sense of the Past 

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A left that developed a renewed appreciation for the past would have a rich political vision, deeper connection with popular traditions, and a more grounded set of values.
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John Witherspoon and the Spirit of 1776 

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Few Christians in the eighteenth century wore as many vocational hats, and accomplished as much in so many different fields, as John Witherspoon. The question is whether all these hats held together. I think they did, perhaps just barely, but they did. And I think they tell us something important about the founding of this country and the spirit of 1776. 
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Who’s Afraid of Classicism?  

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Padilla Peralta wants something, but the way he’s attempting to get it could potentially cost him, and all of us in academia, what little we already have.
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Judicial Vacancies and the Wheel of Fortune 

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Once a judge is relying on the odds, he has relinquished his agency over the decision. It is no longer a function of rational deliberation but a function of Fortune’s wheel, whose spin the judge has no choice but to accept.
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Edgardo Mortara Should Not Have Been Taken from His Parents 

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An in-depth review of Matthew Tapie’s The Mortara Case and Thomas Aquinas’s Defense of Jewish Parental Authority
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Beware the Cul-De-Sac of Weirdness 

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The human future, if there is to be one worth having, will be normal; that is to say, it will conserve the things that have always been good for the human to have, hold, cherish, and sometimes fight for.