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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.

Back to Basics: DEI and the Purpose of Higher Education 

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Public Discourse

A Call to Conservative Donors

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If future conservative politicians are to have a conservative tradition in their heads, we need to finance programs that introduce college students to the conservative and liberal traditions through philosophy, history, literature, and art.
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What Is a Mother to Do? Questions for Same-Sex Marriage Advocates

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To demand that we recognize same-sex romantic relationships as marriages, and teach our children so, is to prevent them from discovering reality.
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Evolution and the Eye Test: A Response to My Critics

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Darwin rejected a theory of knowledge that best accords with the common experience of the expert and the layman: a process of induction or intuition whereby sense impressions become memories, and memories become experience.
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Evolution, the Eye Test, & Scientific Reasoning: A Response to Seagrave

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The “eye test” is no more a problem for the evolutionary origin of species than it is for the atomic structure of matter or for the motion of the earth.
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Evolutionary Theory and Reality: A Response to Seagrave

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Darwin’s evolutionary theory doesn’t ask us to “overlook” how we usually “behold the face of nature,” but instead asks us to consider more carefully what we do see.
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Small-Town Saints for Our Placeless Age

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In The Little Way of Ruthie Leming, Rod Dreher eulogizes his little sister with a hagiography worthy of St. Therese herself, while also evaluating his own relationships—to people and to place—according to the virtue of stability proposed by St. Benedict.
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Not Used Up: Progress in Abstinence Education

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Abstinence education today is a public health intervention, based on science and evidence, using sound pedagogy and methodology, to deliver a sound health message to young men and women, primarily in school settings.
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The Data Are In: Religious Private Schools Deserve a Second Look

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A recent meta-analysis of 90 studies on religious private schools, traditional public schools, and charter schools shows that students perform best academically and behaviorally when they attend religious private schools.
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Evolution and the Eye Test

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Darwin’s evolutionary theory rests on a problematic premise: Our senses don’t tell us the truth about nature.
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The Boy Scouts’ Doomed Compromise

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The Boy Scouts’ new policy allowing openly gay members will fall to aggressive gay rights activists if not first to its own incoherence.
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The New Birds and the Bees

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Our language about sexuality is dominated by public health, with its talk of risk, “protection,” health, choice, and rights. In so doing we scoff at babies—the crowning glory of human creativity—and where they come from.
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Morality and Economic Freedom: A Response to Gregg

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Aristotelian-Thomistic moral philosophy doesn’t imply that every economy should be capitalist.
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The Common Good: Instrumental But Not Just Contractual

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Is the fundamental and essential point of forming the polity the polity itself, or is the polity primarily a means of protecting and achieving many other valuable ends?
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Man the Political Animal: On the Intrinsic Goodness of Political Community

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Our arguments for limited government should recognize political community as an intrinsic good, not mistake it for a merely instrumental one.
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Conservatives and the Non-Triumph of Capitalism

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Conservatives need to stop shying away from principled, as opposed to merely utilitarian, defenses of economic freedom and its associated institutions.
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Truth, Responsibility, and Love

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The Regent University 2013 Commencement Address, delivered May 4, 2013.
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After Beauty

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Just as our culture’s rejection of an essential human nature wreaked havoc on our moral thought, so too our rejection of the concept of form has made our artwork incoherent.
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Video Keno: Pennsylvania’s Leviathan?

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There is no right to lose oneself in a game of chance for the state’s benefit, and more than that there is no good in it. Video keno contracts liberty and virtue while accelerating the state’s colonization of civil society.
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The End of Meaningless Sex

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Donna Freitas’s new book on the hookup culture rightly encourages students to see its harms, but fails to give them moral reasons for opting out of it.
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Sheer Hart Attack: Morality, Rationality, and Theology

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Natural law theory makes a very limited, but very important claim—that there is common ground between all human beings, and particularly between religious believers and non-believers, on which moral disagreements can be rationally adjudicated.
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A Boy’s Life with Unisex Scouts

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The Boy Scouts are en route to holding that there is nothing to being a boy, and nothing to the boy’s becoming a man; they might as well be the Unisex Scouts, as they are in Canada, where the scouting movement has collapsed.
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Ambition Explains America: From Bobos in Paradise to Obama

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While the ambition guiding today’s young Americans is not the robust, risk-taking ambition of earlier generations, it is still essential to American life; President Obama’s grandiose goals offer just one example. The second of a two-part series.
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Ambition Explains America: From Benjamin Franklin to Ronald Reagan

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As an essential part of our character and a reason for our nation’s exceptionalism, ambition in America has been portrayed both as a sentiment to be contained and a virtue to be cultivated. The first of a two-part series.
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To Whom Do Children Belong?

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Children’s relationship to the political community is fundamentally different from that of adults, because it is mediated through their belonging to a family and living under the authority of their parents.

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