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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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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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Natural Law Liberalism Beyond Romanticism

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To reject the presence of natural law in documents of the Founding era is to embrace both cynicism and romanticism.
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Sky Fall: Gender Ideology Comes to the Schoolhouse

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Since redefining marriage requires us to deny sexual differences, even school children now have to conform to that principle at the risk of punishment.
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Blessed Are Les Misérables: For Theirs Is the True Philosophy of Law

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Hollywood’s new musical masterpiece illustrates a classical legal philosophy, long lost to our liberal establishment, that serves as a golden mean between tyrannical legalism and libertine antinomianism.
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Coolidge: A Man to Be Followed

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Calvin Coolidge is an exemplar for conservative leaders because he was the very opposite of an ideological dreamer; he saw his vocation as a duty to provide the country that elected him with honest and frugal government that respected limits.
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Who Am I? The Building of Bionic Man

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The invention of Rex, a bionic man with artificially created organs, helps us see why it is impossible for any machine to be a human being.
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Direct Killing as Intentional Killing

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True doctors and abortionists are different kinds of persons because they perform different acts as they carry out different proposals: the one, a proposal to remove a non-viable child to save the mother; the other, to kill that child for the mother’s benefit.
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Our National Sex Day

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To persuade people effectively that a sexual morality does indeed exist, we need to help them arrive at that conclusion on their own by asking thought-provoking questions and treating them with dignity, love, and respect, not by force-feeding them arguments and statistics.
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Why and How We Should Tackle the Sperm-Sale Industry

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With money as the biggest incentive for sperm donation, donors are set up to be absent fathers. Politicians, charitable organizations, academics, and donors themselves should counter the ills of sperm donation through law, journalism, and funding for anti-sperm donation advocacy. The second of a two-part series.
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Why Sperm Donation is Bad for Dads and Kids

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Commercialized sperm “donation” degrades and objectifies men, promotes a culture of irresponsible parenting, and hurts children conceived through donation. The first of a two-part series.
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The Least of These

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Our government has failed to admit that its own selfishness is the root of many societal problems it has tried to address.
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Simple Justice: Kids Deserve School Choice

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Rather than cave to self-interested protests against school choice from teachers unions, we should do what we can to make Catholic schools a viable school option for low-income children.
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Is Religion Outdated in the Twenty-First Century?

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Religion isn’t outdated simply because some people claim that we can only know what the natural sciences tell us. Philosophy and theology are the next steps in our search for truth about nature, human nature, and God.
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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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We Must Preserve the Founders’ Classical Vision for Our Nation’s Capital

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The plan of our nation’s capital and the architecture of its core buildings and monuments must carry on the classical vision the Founders intended as the physical manifestation of America’s form of government and political ideals.
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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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Let’s Talk About Just War

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In a country where we oscillate between the extremes of realism and pacifism, learning the history of the just war tradition is important. A new book by David Corey and J. Daryl Charles offers us an introduction.
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Sneering Social Constructionists

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Sneering at persons who are not social constructionists has become commonplace. Until defenders of inherent virtues, natural laws, divine beings, and other things that transcend social reality learn to overcome this initial set-up, they will be forever on the defensive.
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It’s a Wonderful Strife

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Yes, George Bailey destroyed Bedford Falls. Good riddance! The entrepreneur creates new ways of life that restore our moral bearings when old ways of life become—as they do in every age—cynical and dysfunctional.
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It’s a Wonderful Country: Pottersville or Bedford Falls?

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In the classic Christmas film “It’s a Wonderful Life,” the humane society of Bedford Falls is built on conservative principles, not contemporary liberal ones.
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Porn Use and Supporting Same-Sex Marriage

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Young adult men’s support for redefining marriage may not be entirely the product of ideals about expansive freedoms, rights, liberties, and fairness. It may be, in part, a byproduct of regular exposure to diverse and graphic sex acts.
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Beyond Wishful Thinking: A Response to Schlueter

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“Natural law liberalism” is a chimera that cannot and does not exist in the American tradition.
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Science and the Politics of Personhood

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Science can and should help determine sound public policy on matters that involve basic human rights.
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“Fantasy Slut League” and Natural Law

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A “Fantasy Slut League” created by high school boys in California suggests the reality of natural law even in those minds whose view of sexuality has been distorted by our culture.
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