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Education & Culture

The fourth pillar, education and culture, is built upon the recognition of two essential realities. First, the Western intellectual tradition requires a dedication to and desire for truth. Second, education takes place not only within colleges and universities but within our broader culture, whose institutions and practices form us as whole persons.

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The Demise of Language and the Rise of Cloning

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On both sides of the Atlantic, human cloning for pregnancy has been stealthily gaining ground in the last few years, in part due to cultural perceptions and words that obscure reality.

Neil Gorsuch, Natural Law, and the Limits of Judicial Power

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What does natural law say about the power of judges in constitutional systems of government?

Out of the Ashes: Anthony Esolen’s Clarion Call to Restore Culture, Faith, and Sanity

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Anthony Esolen’s new book offers a bracing diagnosis and prescription for contemporary American culture.

Natural Law, Social Justice, and the Crisis of Liberty in the West

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A reflection on our nature as “dependent, rational animals.”

Biology Isn’t Bigotry: Christians, Lesbians, and Radical Feminists Unite to Fight Gender Ideology

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Public schools have a duty to serve all children, but a school cannot serve children and a totalitarian ideology all at once. For the sake of children’s well-being, Christian mothers are uniting with their radical feminist and lesbian sisters to reject the idea of “gender identity.”

Ideology and the Corruption of Language

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Everyone talks about “dialogue,” but very few of us have the patience or are willing to do the hard work to engage in it.

In Defense of Plato’s Republic

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For Socrates, the city isn’t only an arbitrarily chosen device for illuminating the soul’s mysteries but an essential means for creating and sustaining justice and the other virtues in the soul.

Trump, Hamilton, and Pro-Choice Dog Parades

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Even the deepest hypocrisies can’t change the fact that we are designed for love.

Can Same-Sex Marriage Really Reduce Teen Suicide?

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The legalization of same-sex marriage may be associated with a short-term emotional bump for youth who identify as sexual minorities, but it is not a robust, long-term panacea for the emotional struggles of teenagers.

Identity Studies in Service of a Classical Education

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A classical education should help students to see how their many identities can and should be integrated according to right reason so that they can develop those life-giving friendships necessary for a full and fulfilling life, most importantly, of course, their friendship with God.

After the Exile: Poetry and the Death of Culture

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We are a people now illiterate in a way that is unprecedented for the human race. We can decipher linguistic signs on a page, but we have no songs and immemorial stories in our hearts.

Shedding Light on Progressivism’s Dark Side

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A new book details the progressive movement’s reliance on eugenics and race science as well as its effort to exclude the disabled, blacks, immigrants, the poor, and women from full participation in American society.

Science, Embryonic Autonomy, and the Question of When Life Begins

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A new study demonstrates that human embryos autonomously direct their own development from the very earliest moments of life—even when they are not in their mothers’ wombs.

Madisonian Thomism

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Though it is often criticized as being based on Hobbesian principles, James Madison’s constitutional theory is basically Thomistic.

Families, Schools, and Churches: The Building Blocks of a Healthy Social Ecology

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To create a society in which human beings can flourish, we must support child-raising families, schools that intentionally cultivate the intellectual and moral virtues, and local church communities. The second of a two-part series.

Safeguarding the Conditions for an Authentic Human Ecology

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If we are to safeguard the moral conditions for an authentic human ecology we must take far more seriously the care, nurture, and cultivation of children and young people in virtue. The first in a two-part series.

Higher Education in Hell

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A politicized education is illiberal by its own inner compulsions. It has almost the hideousness and chaos of hell itself, so inextricably coupled it is with the mire and passions of the passing day.

A Nine-Year-Old Boy is Spreading a “Contagion of Mass Delusion”

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National Geographic’s cover photo is exploitation. The health and well-being of a child are being sacrificed to advance a political and cultural crusade.

Race, the Legacy of Slavery, and American Promise

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A new documentary about the Thirteenth Amendment and the disproportionate imprisonment of African Americans is a wake-up call to conservatives who feel threatened by apparently unpatriotic protests or demands for racial justice.

Rebuilding Cultural and Intellectual Life: An Invitation to Witherspoon’s Summer Seminars

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The Witherspoon Institute’s summer seminars help the university accomplish its purpose: to teach students to work together to pursue truth with humility and dedication.

Against Pious Nihilism: C.S. Lewis on Natural Law

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For many, the Narnia stories were their first exposure to the goodness of God and his creation. While they called us to move “further in and further up” to things that were more real and solid than these Shadowlands we now inhabit, they did so by calling us to attend to the traces of the divine already present in the created order.

Love, Liberal Education, and the Secret of Human Identity

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True liberal education should teach us that we do not only give ourselves away: we become ourselves by the gift. We become who we are by forgetting to think about who we are.

Universities and the Dangers of Docility

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We need docile teachers and students, those unafraid of the fundamental questions and the highest things: those who want truth.

Reason and the Existence of God

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Are traditional arguments for the existence of God at least suspect—if not false—in the light of what modern philosophy tells us about the limits of human understanding?

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