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Timeless Beauty: Conservatism’s Modernist Problem

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Conservatives who reject modern architecture have reasons to do so. Traditional architecture is predicated on the ideal of beauty as an objective reality, while modernism exalts subjective preferences.
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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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Sex, Drugs, and Religious Liberty

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Same-sex marriage may pose a grave threat to religious liberty, but the cultural conditions and assumptions that make that threat possible are rooted in heterosexual behavior and the idea that everyone has a right to consequence-free sexual intimacy.
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Emergency Contraception Can Cause Abortion

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Hidden behind misleading terminology, the facts emerge: emergency contraceptives such as Ella and hormonal IUDs can and do cause abortions
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Truth, Responsibility, and Love

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The Regent University 2013 Commencement Address, delivered May 4, 2013.
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Who Am I? The Building of Bionic Man

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The invention of Rex, a bionic man with artificially created organs, helps us see why it is impossible for any machine to be a human being.
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Why We Can’t Just “Lighten Up” Over the HHS Mandate

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Preserving the freedom to witness to the truths one believes, not merely avoiding cooperation with evil, is what’s primarily at stake in the HHS mandate debate.
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Truth, Metaphor, and Race in the Marriage Debate

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Whatever same-sex marriage is, that’s not what gays are after. They are after a symbolic vehicle that can make them equal to people who can do something they cannot—procreate.
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Bad Science and Failed Freedom Protections in the HHS Mandate

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The latest proposed amendment to the HHS mandate still draws on empirically unsound data and violates religious freedom.
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Contraception and Women’s Wellbeing: Physical Health, Happiness, and Religion

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Poor women will bear the brunt of government promoted contraceptive programs, along with its problematic side-effects. While contraception does not manufacture female happiness as its proponents suggest, religion can. The third in a three-part series.
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Planned Parenthood and the Government v. Religious Liberty and Women’s Wellbeing

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An unprecedented campaign against religious liberty, characterized by a formidable alliance between the White House and Planned Parenthood, bolstered by money, power, and market branding, is threatening women’s well-being. The first in a three-part series.
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Emergency Contraception Won’t Decrease Teen Pregnancies

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A pilot program in New York City to give minors emergency contraception in school without telling their parents is an ineffective response to a non-existent “epidemic” of teen pregnancy.
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Religion as a Community-Bonding Fiction

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Although religion and God-belief are in some sense an illusion for Jonathan Haidt, they are seen as an often salutary fiction insofar as they help people to overcome their self-centeredness and direct their efforts to a greater collective good. The first in a two-part series.
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HHS Mandate: Unjust (as well as Illegal)

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To recap two major problems with the HHS mandate: it restricts the natural right of religious freedom and imposes a false view of religion.
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The Paradise of Sexual Revolution

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The sexual revolution puts forth a vision of paradise in which we rig up some nifty devices to guarantee infertility, consider neither holiness nor virtue, and believe in the blessings of no one and nowhere and nothing.
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The HHS Mandate and Legal Precedent

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Contrary to what Obama supporters would have us believe, there’s no precedent for the HHS mandate.
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John Locke and the Inadequacies of Social Contract Theory

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John Locke is an illustration of how social contract theory distorts sound political reasoning.
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When Speaking Falsely is Right

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All lying is immoral, but not all false utterances are lies.
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On Form and Flarf

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An appreciation for the naturalness of form can lead us back from the politicization of poetry.
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The Argument Over Pregnancy: And Why it Matters

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Accepting the “liberal” definition on pregnancy can actually help clarify the morality of contraception, abortion, and embryo adoption.
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Remembering the Pill

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The fiftieth anniversary of oral contraceptives is a reminder of all the things the Pill lets us forget.
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Should the Obama Conscience Rules Seek to Protect Persons or Provide Benefits?

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The state is required to protect persons not just from physical harm but from being forced to violate their limited but definite freedom of conscience.
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