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John Stuart Mill’s Intolerant Faith and the Religion of Liberalism

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John Stuart Mill foreshadows the deeply intolerant faith and agenda of contemporary liberalism.

The Utopian Aspirations of the Fight Against Climate Change: A Call for Moderation

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The effort to combat climate change aspires to feats of social control, coordination, and foresight that are unprecedented in the history of politics. Our expectations for the movement ought to be tempered by our knowledge of human limitations.

Same-Sex Attraction and Therapy: It’s Time to Let People Choose

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Recent years have seen countless—and specious—legislative, judicial, and administrative attempts to block those with unwanted same-sex attraction from seeking healing and transformation through professional therapy.

Bernie’s Relativism Test Is Bad for Muslims and All Religious Believers

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Those trying to block the nomination of Russell Vought are not protecting religious pluralism but are rather demanding that all public servants be relativists.

US Soccer’s Rainbow Pride Jerseys Exclude and Divide

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Athletes should be judged on talent, heart, and work ethic—not politics. Our national sports teams should represent the whole country, not any one political niche.

The Experiment on Our Children: Doctors Don’t Know Who the Real Trans Kids Are

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Doctors currently have no way of predicting which gender dysphoric children will persist in their gender dysphoria, and yet they are pushing the minimum age for irreversible hormone therapy and surgery as low as possible.

Making Sense of the Founders: Politics, Natural Rights, and the Laws of Nature

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It is often alleged that the American founders lacked a unified and coherent political theory. To the contrary, a recent book by Thomas West shows that the founders broadly agreed on a philosophy of natural rights, calling for both the protection of liberty and the promotion of virtue.

Ted Cruz Is Right: The “International Community” Did Not Create the United States

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In a heated Twitter exchange with Senator Ted Cruz, Harvard professor Joyce Chaplin recently claimed that recognition by the “international community” created the United States in 1783. From an international lawyer’s standpoint, this is nonsense.

Recovering a More Complex Story of the Christian West

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Nick Spencer’s recent collection of essays reminds us to appreciate the complex relationship between Christianity and modernity.

Fountainheads of Fusionism

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The relationship between Edmund Burke and Adam Smith underscores a fundamental connection between virtue and liberty.

Why There Are Only Two Sexes

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Men are men, and women are women. There is no third option.

Listening: An Antidote to the Modern University’s Incoherence

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Our universities are struggling under competing epistemological trends. Teaching students to master these requires developing their power to listen.

Stuck in a Dangerous Rut: Conservative Discourse and Islam

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If conservatives want to seriously help address issues related to Islam, the Muslim world, and encounters with the West, they need to escape their narrow information networks.

Suppose You Were an Idiot: On the Importance of Acknowledging Incompetence

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Political theory typically attributes political action to one of two main motivations: idealism or self-interest. But incompetence plays a much larger role than many assume.

What’s in a Name? Why Christians Should Be Wary of the Word “Transgender”

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The Christian worldview accepts the validity of people’s testimony that gender dysphoria is a real experience resulting in heartrending distress. The Christian worldview cannot, however, countenance the idea that men can become women or that women can become men.

Bloom’s War for the Imagination

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The authors in this symposium have offered insightful analyses of Bloom’s book and the contemporary university it describes. Can what has been lost be recovered? If so, this will come through restoration of the imagination.

Allan Bloom’s University and Mine: From Racial Intimidation to Trigger Warnings

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Allan Bloom would not have been surprised by recent developments in American higher education, from trigger warnings and safe spaces to micro-aggressions and physical violence.

Allan Bloom on American Nihilism and Its Degrading Vocabulary

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What would have happened if literature professors had continued to love literature, admire Shakespeare, and teach others to do the same? Perhaps if they had emulated Allan Bloom’s attention to words—if they’d taught writing and written well themselves—our colleges would not now be so enraged.

Allan Bloom’s Souls Without Longing, All Grown Up

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Souls without longing are the price to be paid for a free, comfortable, and secure life. Yet the unnatural state of radical isolation and apathetic “niceness” can only last so long.

The Closing of the American Mind Thirty Years Later: A Symposium

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All is not well in America—or in the University. Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind offers a profound and compelling diagnosis of the common illness infecting them both and of the intimate connection between liberal education and liberty.

A Life Well Spent: Learning from John Noonan

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With the recent passing of Judge John T. Noonan, Jr., Americans would do well to honor and remember his example of respectful engagement over fundamental moral issues.

A Christian Abortion Doctor? On the Ignorance, Arrogance, and Violence of the Pro-Choice Cause

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Willie Parker’s new memoir displays the characteristic ignorance, arrogance, and violence of the pro-choice worldview.

The Genius of the Mexico City Policy and the Pro-Life Legacy of President Trump

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President Trump has an opportunity to forge a remarkable legacy as a pro-life president. To do that, he must continue to update, reinforce, and apply the principles underlying the Mexico City Policy in a way that is consistent with Ronald Reagan’s original vision.

Faith and Reason, Beauty and Holiness

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We have the obligation to propose with the apostle Paul the more excellent way. And this only intensifies as you graduate today and enter a world that is simultaneously hungry for and resistant to your message.