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July 29, 2011
Education & Culture, Politics & Law

July 29, 2011
Culture, Politics

John Locke and the Inadequacies of Social Contract Theory

By Samuel Gregg

John Locke is an illustration of how social contract theory distorts sound political reasoning.

July 20, 2011
Business & Economics, Sexuality & Family

July 20, 2011
Economics, Marriage

The Two-Biological-Parent Family and Economic Prosperity: What’s Gone Wrong

By William Jeynes

Research shows the positive economic effect of two-biological-parent families on our society. Single parenthood and other alternative family structures not only hurt our economy, they hurt our children, those who care for them, and those for whom our children will care later in life. The first in a two-part series.

July 18, 2011
Sexuality & Family

July 18, 2011
Culture, Healthcare, Natural Law

The Vocation of a Doctor

By Donald W. Landry

Doctors are called to a life of compassionate service to human beings invested with intrinsic dignity. This essay is adapted from the Commencement Address Dr. Landry delivered at the St. Louis University School of Medicine.

July 11, 2011
Sexuality & Family

July 11, 2011
Architecture & the Built Environment, Natural Law

A Realist Philosophical Case For Urbanism and Against Sprawl: Part One

By Philip Bess

Arguments for traditional urbanism are de facto truth claims about nature and human nature, and point to and are supported by the natural law. Why we can and should think normatively about our building patterns. Part one of two.

July 8, 2011
Education & Culture, Politics & Law, Sexuality & Family

July 8, 2011
Constitutional Law, Culture, Marriage, Natural Law

Is Sex Just Like Race?

By Matthew J. Franck

Race and sex play qualitatively different roles in our interactions with each other, making sex rationally relevant to our social and political policies in a way that race is not.

April 20, 2011

April 20, 2011
Architecture & the Built Environment

Building Virtue

By Raymond Hain

Virtue can only be lived out in communities. But which communities are best suited to promoting virtue?

April 6, 2011
Education & Culture

April 6, 2011
Education

Medieval Wisdom for Modern Universities

By Matthew J. Milliner

Augustine, Aquinas, and Alexandria offer forgotten ideals regarding what learning is and the scale at which it flourishes.

March 25, 2011
Education & Culture

March 25, 2011
Culture

Bored to Death

By R.J. Snell

We live in days of distraction.

February 28, 2011
Sexuality & Family, The Human Person

February 28, 2011
Islam, Marriage

Obama’s Unreasonable Abandonment of DOMA

By Gerard V. Bradley

President Obama has dropped the defense of marriage out of political convenience rather than reasonable opposition.

February 25, 2011
Politics & Law, The Human Person

February 25, 2011
Islam, Religion and the Public Square

The Quranic Case Against Killing Apostates

By Abdullah Saeed

A leading Muslim scholar questions whether foundational texts of Islam really do prescribe death for leaving Islam.

February 23, 2011
The Human Person

February 23, 2011
Abortion, Conscience Protection

Repelling the Attack on Conscience

By Helen Alvaré

A new bill is needed to fix the healthcare law’s failure to adequately safeguard conscience

February 22, 2011
Education & Culture, Sexuality & Family, The Human Person

February 22, 2011
Abortion, Lying, Natural Law

Political Responsibility and Exceptionless Moral Norms

By Carson Holloway

What exceptionless moral norms are we willing to discard for the sake of a good cause?

February 18, 2011
Business & Economics, The Human Person

February 18, 2011
Abortion, Healthcare

Now is the Time to End Taxpayer Funding of Abortion

By Douglas Johnson

The history of federal abortion funding highlights the urgent need to reverse the new health care law’s assault on unborn life, and to enact a permanent, government-wide prohibition on federal funding of abortion.

February 2, 2011
Sexuality & Family

February 2, 2011
Marriage, Pornography

Commercialized Sex and Human Bondage

By Ellyn Arevalo

The American sex trade—strip clubs, prostitution, and the booming pornography business—feeds on and fuels modern-day slavery.

January 26, 2011
Business & Economics

January 26, 2011
Economics

Risk, Uncertainty, and Rule of Law

By Samuel Gregg

An uncertain legal landscape puts future prosperity at risk.

January 17, 2011
The Human Person

January 17, 2011
Abortion

The Lazy Slander of the Pro-Life Cause

By Helen Alvaré, Greg Pfundstein, Matthew Schmitz and Ryan T. Anderson

Do pro-lifers care about life after birth?

January 12, 2011
Sexuality & Family

January 12, 2011
Marriage

Does Marriage, or Anything, Have Essential Properties?

By Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson and Robert P. George

A reply to Northwestern Law Professor Andrew Koppelman's second critique of "What is Marriage?"

January 4, 2011
The Human Person

January 4, 2011
Bioethics

Designer Genes

By Justin D. Barnard

One scientist’s flawed argument for flawless humans.

December 6, 2010
The Human Person

December 6, 2010
Bioethics

The Moral Frontiers of Stem Cell Research

By Matthew Hoberg

Though recent progress in induced pluripotent stem-cell research may reduce reliance on embryonic stem cells, it is no moral panacea.

November 19, 2010
Business & Economics, The Human Person

November 19, 2010
Abortion, Healthcare

Pro-Lifers and “Repeal and Replace”

By James C. Capretta

We need a healthcare law that is not only pro-life but that also addresses our healthcare system’s persistent problems and looming challenges.

November 11, 2010
Education & Culture

November 11, 2010
Architecture & the Built Environment, Art

Ambiguity at the American Acropolis

By Matthew J. Milliner

An exhibition by contemporary artist Enrique Martínez Celaya at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (on view through November 23rd) is a unique chance to contrast the uncertainty of our own age with the New Medievalism of the great American architect, Ralph Adams Cram.

October 21, 2010
Business & Economics

October 21, 2010
Economics

Tea Party Metaphysics: Economics and First Principles

By Greg Forster

The Tea Party taps into the full social and cultural power of transcendent moral appeals in a way that social conservatives have never been able to do. The first in a two-part series.

September 10, 2010
Business & Economics

September 10, 2010
Economics

Fiat Money and Public Debt

By Samuel Gregg

The government’s ability to print money at will is a nearly unquestioned feature of today’s economic order, but recent crises have highlighted its hazards.

August 27, 2010
The Human Person

August 27, 2010
Bioethics

Obama’s Illegal Stem-Cell Policy

By Ryan T. Anderson

Obama’s stem-cell policy is not only contrary to sound reason and good science, it violates the law.

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