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Religious Liberty at a Crossroads?

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US religious liberty law is not perfect, but it still deserves our support. Religious exemptions witness to the value of religion as a transcendent good. And nothing in the Supreme Court cases requesting religious liberty exemptions for Muslim citizens undermines that effort.
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Ruthless Misogyny: Janna Darnelle’s Story and Extreme LGBT Activism

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Men—no matter their sexual orientation—do not have a right to women’s bodies or body parts.
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Meanwhile, Outside the Panic Room: Contraception, Hobby Lobby, and Women’s Rights

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Contra Justice Ginsburg, the Hobby Lobby decision is no cause for alarm. Yet we should acknowledge and address a fear she highlights: the serious obstacles women face today in the realms of sex, marriage, and parenthood.
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Twenty-Five Years After Tiananmen: China’s Fight for Human Rights

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A government that cannot face its own history is a government without a future. Memory and truth will give the Chinese people the courage to speak out for democracy, and Americans must join in the fight. Adapted from remarks delivered at the American Enterprise Institute.
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An Anxious Author: Hope and the Spirit of Joseph Bottum

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Why bother with American culture? Bottum recommends despair.
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Québec’s Secular Charter

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Québec wants to define itself in terms of a Christian past while setting a course for a secularism that is profoundly hostile to all religious believers.
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NoFap: One Small Step for Man

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NoFap, an anonymous online community devoted to helping its “Fapstronaut” members overcome their addictions to masturbation and pornography, lends credence to traditional moral teachings and offers important insights for defenders of sexual morality.
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Jean Bethke Elshtain: Gifted Thinker and Courageous Woman

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Jean Bethke Elshtain, our editorial board member and Witherspoon Institute Senior Fellow, fearlessly pursued truth irrespective of the prevailing orthodoxies in the academy and the broader intellectual world.
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Election 2012: Render Unto Ceaser

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Obama’s re-election was not inevitable. He won because he secured the votes he absolutely needed and convinced many others simply not to vote.
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Religion: A Public or a Private Right?

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Our public debate about religious liberty is missing a clear definition of religion. The absence of that definition has generated confusion, frustration, shrill voices, and short tempers.
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Liberalism’s Logic and America’s Challenge: A Reply to Schlueter and Muñoz

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The Founders’ vision of the “common good” was not the pre-modern natural law conception of an objective human good, but a conception of “mutual advantage” shaped by the social contract framework. This logic of liberalism has driven our country to its current political and cultural problems.
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Sustaining American Liberalism in Principle and Practice

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While we should reject misguided claims that our founders adopted political voluntarism, we should follow suggestions for strengthening civic life—and thereby sustain American liberalism—through local government, families, churches, and other civic associations.
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An Environmental Conservatism?

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Roger Scruton argues that conservatism is a better home for good environmental policy than liberalism.
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The Meaning of Place in America: How and Why it Shapes Lives

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While globalized technology promises to make human beings more like each other than ever, our places of residence and origin still differentiate us, whether by shaping our cultural beliefs, our habits, or our manners.
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Better than Our Philosophy: A Response to Muñoz

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Our Founding liberal principles aren’t the best invocation against inhuman practices like slavery and abortion because they also produce self-aggrandizement, individualism, willfulness, and a conception of liberty as the absence of constraint.
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Liberty and a Free Press

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Can the press still prevent a tyrannical majority opinion as it did in Tocqueville’s time? Second of a two-part series.
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Culture: The Missing Conservative Tradition

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Conservatives need a literary tradition that matches Russell Kirk’s political tradition in The Conservative Mind; Robert Oscar López’s new book is a pioneer in this effort.
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Lemmings, Unite! Be True to Yourself?

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If we encourage people to turn away from what is objectively true and good, to cherish instead their beliefs, whatever those may happen to be, we are teaching them not to think at all.
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Slavery and the Constitution

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Slavery was a great evil, but the Constitution was neither its source nor its guarantor.
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Religion: Moving Beyond Emile Durkheim

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For Emile Durkheim, God and religion were nothing more than the idols of the tribe and the tribe's own self-worship; why do so many Western intellectuals take this as the last word on the subject? The second in a two-part series.
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One Man, One Vote, One Culture: In Defense of Towns

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We require goods on a human scale, including our political communities.
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Religious Freedom’s Legal and Moral Basis

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The right to religious freedom was crucial to the Founders’ vision of America. Religious freedom is a right to be protected because it enables us to fulfill our human obligation to seek the truth. The second in a two-part series.
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Early Religious Freedom in America

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The Founders’ nuanced views of religion and politics prevent us from reading modern concerns about the separation of church and state into their words.
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Progressive Impiety

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Slandering their fathers while energetically progressing “somewhere,” the progressive is always in a position of impiety.