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parent and child

Will Parental Rights Finally Receive Proper Constitutional Protection? 

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Mirabelli’s reaffirmation of parental rights as genuine constitutional rights is not hypocritical; nor does it open the door to judicial activism. On the contrary, it’s an important and much-needed corrective to erroneous and historically inaccurate interpretations of Pierce that read it so weakly and narrowly that they render it practically impotent as precedent.
human freedom

Embrace the Limit: And the Limit Shall Set You Free 

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Being bound is a gift, not a curse.  
gender and sexuality

Is C. S. Lewis’s Theory of Gender and Sexuality Worth Investigating? 

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Joshua Herring offers a refreshing break from the mundane, a sort of punk rock alternative to gender orthodoxy. He reminds us again that, even as Lewis championed tradition and order, he refused to be conventional. 
language

Language and the Politics of Power 

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Increasingly in our society and politics, the value of life has been subordinated to the aims and narratives of manipulative discourse. The Holy Father is right to warn us of this danger.
multiple personality disorder

The Bookshelf: The Return of Sybil

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If the witch crazes of recovered memory and multiple personalities are making a comeback, perhaps now aided by social contagion online, we would do well to gird ourselves with a sound understanding of psychiatry’s vulnerability to misdirection—and of the harm it can do to the souls under its care.
right vs left

Identity and Recognition Are the Polarized Polis’s Chief Virtues 

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Tocqueville’s insight anticipates Taylor’s: a democracy built on dialogical identity easily turns into a society where individuals depend on the crowd for self-definition.
tech

People, Place, Prayer, the Past: A Review of Paul Kingsnorth’s Against the Machine 

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Kingsnorth sees the problems of technology; but he also realizes (and acknowledges) that he is embedded in the Machine. What he proposes toward the end is not a naïve and impossible utopian withdrawal but selective resistance to the Machine, resistance that can take various forms but that will always involve some level of complicity. 
public restroom

Defending Women’s Spaces: A Leftist Case 

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The issue of allowing trans-identifying men’s access to women’s spaces should unite rather than divide. No matter one’s political affiliation, all should support policies keeping men out of women’s spaces. 
Capitol building and a church representing separation of church and state

Coercion and Religion 

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Religion needs the power of government, but not in the way some think. 
psych office

Should Sexual Reorientation Therapy Be Criminalized? 

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Whatever else one might say about the therapy bans in question, they undeniably burden the free exercise of religion for same-sex-attracted or gender-confused persons who seek not to identify with or live according to those conditions.
Karl Marx

Disruption and Despair: The Dark Logic of Critical Marxism 

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Carl Trueman has delivered an invaluable explanation of Marxist critical theory, and of why it resonates with so many in our troubled times. 
UNC Chapel Hill/The University

Colleges Get Their Comeuppance . . . and Then Some 

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While Trump’s ham-fisted assault on higher ed was justified, that doesn’t mean his tactics are—or that this will end well. 
Same-sex marriage

New Vindication for the Regnerus Same-Sex Parenting Study 

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Suppressing disfavored ideas from consideration has serious consequences for the possibility of scientifically informed public discourse in our day.
Obergefell case

The Legacy of Obergefell, Ten Years Later 

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The single most durable legacy of Obergefell, it would seem, is the damage it has done to the culture of marriage and family in the United States. 
SCOTUS

Defending Parental Rights in the Modern Age: Pierce v. Society of Sisters at 100

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The natural law account of parental rights is a substantively robust and reason-based position—one that must be defended for all Americans of all faiths and shades of belief.
White House

The Progressive Presidency Envelops American Politics 

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One does not need to revisit the drastic consequences that ensued from COVID-19 policies to be reminded of the failures and mistakes of the progressive constitutional framework that issued them.
President Donald Trump

The Trump Coalition and Its Discontents 

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If nothing else, the ANES data should be yet another reminder that there is no longer any “great silent majority” of socially conservative voters. We are, at best, coalition partners with a political movement that has the tendency to default into a lifestyle libertarianism and the move-fast-and-break-things ethos of the tech bro.  

Public Reason and the Cultural Moment

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Political actors of all stripes fail to honor principles of public justification and mutual respect when they try to shame, bully, or force their opponents out of the public square. Movement progressives ought to remember this, and ensure that their political activities uphold such norms—even for those whose views they might find profoundly objectionable or immoral.

The Human and the Machine: AI Sexbots and the Boundaries of Love and Dignity in the Workplace

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What does it mean to be human in a world where machines can mimic our deepest bonds? For thoughtful readers, Jordan’s story offers a lens through which to examine the nature of identity, the limits of legal protections in the workplace, and the ethical challenges posed by artificial intelligence.

What Does It Mean to Be a Woman? An Interview with Dr. Abigail Favale on Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex

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Feminism is a very fractious world. There’s a lot of different visions of what’s wrong and how we fix it. But all of the modern strands can trace their roots back to The Second Sex.

Critiquing Hadley Arkes’s Not-So-Mere Natural Law Theory

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Law necessarily has a moral foundation. Exploring that foundation can help us understand what law can and should be. The project of finding anchoring truths is well worth undertaking, and the natural law tradition has something to contribute to that.
Notre Dame

From the Editor’s Desk: Public Discourse’s Monthly Roundup, January 2025

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On social justice, human nature, timeless beauty, and the power of flexibility 
Cardinal Newman

John Henry Newman, Ida Görres, and the Power of Hagiography: An Interview with Jennifer Bryson

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The book’s importance goes beyond the perennial value of Newman; Görres penetrates deeply into the heart of Newman’s character and life. In doing so, she reveals what made him holy, and holiness is of perennial value.

The Conservative Counterculture

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From a scholarly perspective, the Bud Light boycott represents one of the first battles in the adaptation of political conservatives to their continued cultural disadvantage. Conservatives still operate at a disadvantage in academia and entertainment, but they have created an alternative media system that allows them to have a place at the table and an impact on our culture.