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What Creative Fiction Can (and Cannot) Do

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To engage and shape the culture, we must understand the power of storytelling—and respect its limits.
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Marriage and Equal Protection

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For the Court to strike down laws defining marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife would be to abolish the idea that men and women matter—equally—in the lives of the children they create. And it would be both a judicial usurpation of legislative authority and a federal intrusion into a matter left by the Constitution in the hands of the states.
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A Warning from Canada: Same-Sex Marriage Erodes Fundamental Rights

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Americans need to understand that the endgame of the LGBT rights movement involves centralized state power—and the end of First Amendment freedoms.
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Marriage, Self-Government, and Civility

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Those suing to overturn state marriage laws are not merely asking the Court to recognize a new right. They are asking the Court to declare that the Constitution removes this issue from democratic deliberation.
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Judicially Mandating Same-Sex Marriage Would Put the US at Odds with the Western World

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Fewer than 9 percent of the countries belonging to the United Nations have redefined marriage to include same-sex relationships—and only one of those did so via its judiciary. A judicial redefinition of marriage would make the United States an extreme outlier on the global stage.
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Dear Justice Kennedy: An Open Letter from the Child of a Loving Gay Parent

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Take it from the adult child of a loving gay parent: redefining marriage promotes a family structure in which children suffer.
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Charlie Hebdo, Intolerance, and the Problem of Double Standards

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The terrible massacre in Paris could be a “teachable” moment on the meaning of tolerance, but it will require soul searching by America’s cultural leftists.
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Why Republicans Need to Change the Way They Talk about Immigration

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By purifying their party of imprudent rhetoric, Republicans will be better able to identify adequate immigration policies, win the respect of Latino citizens, and form a reasonable response to the president’s recent executive action.
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Who Deserves Respect?

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Civility is due not to a person’s opinions, but to the person himself.
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How the United States Government Lost Its Liberalism

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Through executive orders and judicial overreach, American government has eroded the separation of powers and lost its commitment to liberal ideals. The second in a two-part series.
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Intolerance as Illiberalism

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An illiberal mindset is spreading across America, corrupting our culture and our politics. The first of a two-part series.
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The Supreme Court on Prayer

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Justice Kennedy’s opinion in Greece v. Galloway is the Court’s best piece of Establishment Clause work in decades—and a happy omen for religious liberty in our country.
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Moral Truth: A Lesson from the Donald Sterling Affair

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When we make moral judgments, we implicitly and unavoidably acknowledge that there are objective standards of right and wrong to which we ought to conform our feelings and actions.
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Where Is the Virtue?

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Our culture has become soft. We suppose that sex is too trivial to require virtue, yet we also believe it is so significant that to suggest any restraint upon its consensual exercise is an affront to the most important fount of human dignity.
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Lady Edith and Abortion Rights

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For many women, the social, practical, and personal reasons for having an abortion simply trump the life of their child.
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Is “Sex Worker” a Legitimate Phrase?

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Contrary to the rhetoric of sex-worker advocacy groups, the vast majority of women working as prostitutes did not freely choose to do so. Human trafficking is a serious problem, and those who attempt to downplay its prevalence often have ulterior motives.
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Allison Benedikt’s Immodest Proposal

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A rant against private schools should teach all of us something about the purposes of education, and what responsible parents should seek for their children.
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Dissecting Political Correctness

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To resist the manipulative forces of political correctness, we must speak out and overcome the social isolation that breeds silence.
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Kermit Gosnell and the Logic of “Pro-Choice”

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Kermit Gosnell has been the equivalent of the American slave-dealer—someone who has done work rendered absolutely necessary by the twisted laws of his regime, but who has nevertheless been ignored or regarded with unease, and even repulsion, by his fellow citizens.
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Absentee Fathers and the Newtown School Shooting

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Any honest analysis of the Newtown tragedy must address the social problems caused by divorce, absent fathers, and the burdens of single motherhood.
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Reproductive Technologies and the Quest for Immortality

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The fertility industry is booming because we desire genetic and memetic immortality—the preservation and reproduction of our bodies and ways of life.
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Coming Apart, and Back Together?

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Charles Murray argues we’ve come apart, but can therapeutic Deism and the sexual revolution put us back together?
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Gingrich, Desegregation, and Judicial Supremacy

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Those who oppose judicial supremacy follow in the footsteps of Abraham Lincoln himself.
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Can America Overcome Race?

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In Randall Kennedy’s new book on the dimensions of race in American politics, Kennedy abandons his usual level-headed analysis for a partisan, and misguided, look at American progressivism and conservatism.
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