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The third pillar of a decent society is a just system of politics and law. Such a government does not bind all persons, families, institutions of civil society, and actors in the marketplace to itself as subservient features of an all-pervading authority. Instead, it honors and protects the inherent equal dignity of all persons, safeguards the family as the primary school of virtue, and seeks justice through the rule of law.

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Catholic Church

A Secular Love Letter to Catholicism—and Hope for a Catholic Presidency 

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Because it is politically heterodox, Catholic social thought can speak to voters across the political spectrum.    
political wars

Why Are Conservatism and Modern Liberalism at War? 

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To end the mirror wars we must turn toward the light they reflect—the transcendent good in which freedom and order, truth and love find their unity.
online gambling

Online Gambling Corrupts Sports—And Americans, Too 

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The legalization of sports betting, especially at the college level, is a corruption not only of athletics and of education but of American society in general.
US Capitol Building

What’s Wrong with Congress?

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Congress has some real problems. But it is not a hopeless case. We can improve it and revive representative government.
Venezuela turmoil

“Operation Absolute Resolve” and Just War Tradition 

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Was the removal and arrest of Nicolas Maduro justified according to the just war tradition? The answer is yes, with a small caveat.
Pope Leo XIV Inauguration

Two Leos on Church and State

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The contemporary Leonine texts suggest that the Pope’s primary concern is about the downstream political consequences of religious liberty.
Capitol Hill

The Powers of the Senate 

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There’s no point in writing laws if the courts won’t follow them. It’s the trial judges, not the president, who are sapping Congress’s power. Perhaps it’s time that Congress does something about it.  
immigration and family separation

The Dignity of the Family and American Democracy 

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There appears to be an intractable choice between family separation, on one hand, and a nation that does not enforce its own laws or protect its own borders, on the other. How to proceed? 
Maduro

The End of a Regime? Understanding the Extraction of Maduro

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The story of Maduro’s extraction is not a tale of foreign intervention. It is a story of internal collapse, human suffering, and the eventual recognition—by Venezuelans and by the world—that a government cannot indefinitely destroy the lives of its citizens without facing consequences.
Harvard Law

The Return to Tradition in the Law 

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If feats like the medieval preservation and subsequent revival of Roman law show us anything, it is that the steady, often thankless work of patient scholarship and steady teaching can provide sound footing on dry land. 
Plato

Gorgias and Good Rhetors: A Response to Thomas Schacht 

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Taking all things together and balancing the good with the bad, you have not a moral horror, but a very good country indeed, which is why people from around the world still yearn to come here. If anyone tells you otherwise, he’s a lying rhetor. 
Historic American courthouse

The Judicial Oath and the Judgment of History

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My oath, with God as witness, to uphold the rule of law must matter more than the judgment of any peer or historian.
Roger Scruton

Rationalism in Conservative Politics 

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Ideas about the political conditions for human flourishing sometimes have unforeseen consequences. But the consequences of refusing to traffic in these ideas are foreseeably very bad indeed.
Supreme Court

Originalism, the Pro-Life Cause, and the Fight for the Soul of the Court 

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Conservatives are indebted to those who fought for the soul of the Court. 
Plato statue

The Gorgias, Lawyers, and the Problem of Rhetoric 

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No matter how one answers the problem, wrestling with the Gorgias is inevitable for the lawyer concerned with justice. Either we answer Plato adequately, or we cannot be lawyers.  
Amy Coney Barrett

Listening to the Law 

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Questions about how to interpret our Constitution, the reader can conclude, ought to be approached from within the broader enterprise of understanding how to inherit it. The inheritance-based understanding of American constitutionalism that Barrett transmits through this book is itself worthy of being handed on with interest and appreciation.  
war

The Tragedy of Christian Power Politics 

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“There is a time for war,” says the preacher in Ecclesiastes, “and a time for peace.” Let the present time point toward the time of perfect and ultimate peace, when the swords of nations shall be beaten into plowshares.
public restroom

Defending Women’s Spaces: A Leftist Case 

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The issue of allowing trans-identifying men’s access to women’s spaces should unite rather than divide. No matter one’s political affiliation, all should support policies keeping men out of women’s spaces. 
St Augustine's conversion

Solidarity, Communion, and The City of God 

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What is the nature of human dignity? What is it to act justly towards another human being? For Augustine, the answer is that justice towards another human being is a matter of recognizing God’s image in them, and all that follows from that, the deep solidarity and communion that arises from this.
SCOTUS

The Accused in This Republic 

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If evil deeds tend to tear us apart, our fidelity to the Constitution helps us to stand united. 
American founding

Retrieving Scholastic Consent Theory 

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Communal consent is usually necessary to authorize civil leaders to make governmental decisions for the whole community, and that this is a demand of general justice on the part of the purported authorities themselves. 
American flag and cross

On the Republic and Its Soul  

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We change a culture by first changing ourselves; by knowing our faith, trusting God, and then actually living and defending what we claim to believe, whatever the cost.
American flag closeup

The Man Who Invented Conservatism 

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Young conservatives can learn a great deal from Flynn’s account of Meyer’s life.
explicit material

Congress Shall Make No Law Abridging the Freedom of … Pornhub? 

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Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, but Congress should make a law abridging the freedom of Pornhub. 

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