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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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Conservatism and Freedom

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Conservatives need to refine their understanding and presentation of the moral substance of their cause, crafting a message that appeals to both reason and imagination.
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Nature and God in Ethics

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Just as an engineer can work out the purpose of a machine by examining its structure, reason can discover the proper end of human action by examining human nature. Yet there is also a supernatural morality that subsumes and exceeds natural moral standards.
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Religion and the Foundations of Morality

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We don’t need to know that God exists to know good from bad. It is enough to know human nature—what kind of being we are and what kind of actions will bring us to fullness of being.
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Drunk, But Not on Whiskey

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We have the worst of both worlds: a Prohibitionary State that gives license to all kinds of evil, but that regulates and restricts actions that are not evil, to manage the chaos that results from the license.
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Come Out and Celebrate?

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National Coming Out Day’s emphasis on “celebrating” students’ self-identification as LGBT undermines Notre Dame’s pastoral responsibility to help students develop an integrated sexual identity and a true understanding of human dignity.
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Faith and (Dorm) Life

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Faith-based dorms at secular universities offer a positive alternative to the indoctrination and debasement present on many campuses.
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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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The New Narcotic

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New neurological research reveals that porn is as potently addictive as heroin or cocaine.
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Freedom and Civility

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Law cannot replace a nation’s customs, manners, and traditions. Rather, it should strengthen them by corroborating and invigorating the ways of a people.
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Going the Distance for Children

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Adults are bending time and space to satisfy their desire for children by adopting long-frozen embryos.
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Higher Education, Social Capital, and the Path to a Better Life

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Higher education is not a guarantee for success. Young people need not only a high quality education and strong economic opportunities, but also the integral social bonds that come from a society that defends freedom of religion and association, as well as healthy marriages.
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The Pragmatic Eudaimonist: A Response to David Tubbs

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David L. Tubbs’ criticism of pragmatic liberalism reveals that he misunderstands both the necessary complexity of constitutional law and its relation to civil society.
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The Moral Structure of Pedophilia

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In contemporary America, condemnation of pedophilia rests on sentiment and not on moral reasoning. Nobody can simultaneously explain why pedophilia is so vile and uphold the first commandment of the sexual revolution: Fulfill thy desires.
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Rehabbing Authenticity in an Ideological Age

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We can only define ourselves authentically in terms of, in Charles Taylor’s words, a “backdrop of things that matter”—a set of values that transcend our arbitrary choices. The second of a two-part series.
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Authenticity and the End of Rhetoric

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Our current jargon of “authenticity” is an affront to political friendship—it demands that others always capitulate to our claims, and makes not doing so tantamount to harm. The first of a two-part series.
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Illusions of Unity? Mind, Value, and Nature

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Is it wrong to study the natural sciences using a metaphysical framework that sees unity in reality?
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The Reluctant Eudaimonist: The Flaws of “Pragmatic Liberalism”

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Robert Miller’s pragmatic liberalism fails to strike a satisfactory balance between Aristotelian-Thomistic eudaimonism and American liberalism because he does not defend the universality of moral principles.
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Millennials and Marriage

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Young Americans have come to believe that they can only achieve “good” marriages through professional success and economic prosperity.
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Charity with a Conscience

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We all have a moral obligation to use our surplus wealth to help those in need, but we should do so in a way that is effective, fair, and in accordance with our own vocations.
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What Will Become of Equal Protection for Women?

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Laws in Massachusetts and California requiring that sex-segregated facilities be open to both sexes will undermine equal protection for women.
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Moral Anthropology, Social Ontology, and Authentic Human Freedom

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The late Jean Bethke Elshtain understood that human beings are inherently relational, arguing that families are essential for human flourishing.
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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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Support the Work of Public Discourse

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A note from the editor.
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Grounding Our Right to Religious Freedom

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Our right to religious freedom is best grounded in the universal duty to seek ultimate truth, and not in human autonomy.
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