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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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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. 
protective parent holding sad child

Parental Rights at the Supreme Court: Protecting Children from Government Orthodoxy 

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The latest elite orthodoxy threatens children’s minds, bodies, and family relationships. It is time for the high court to clarify that parents—not the government, unions, or advocacy groups—are the primary decisionmakers for children’s education, upbringing, and care.
conservatism

Conservatism without a Movement? 

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Commitment to America as a whole must come one of two ways—as a “community of communities” in which one’s sympathy for the nation comes channeled through a commitment to locality; or through ideological abstraction. 
St. Augustine

Augustinian Lessons on Spiritual Authority in Church–State Relations 

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If Augustine’s two cities can’t be neatly mapped onto the modern distinction between Church and State, how can his thought help illumine Church-State relations?
Vatican conclave

The Social Dynamics of Papal Elections 

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The Holy Spirit is still reliably and certainly at work in aiding the selection of the successor to the Chair of Saint Peter. That the process of getting there often leans on friendships, acquaintances, impressions, hope, and trust should not concern us. We’re human, after all. It couldn’t be otherwise. 
labor unions

Conservative Unionism and the Problem of Coercion 

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Pro-union conservatives have raised real questions about the tensions latent in conservative thought. But they haven’t shown how unions can resolve those tensions.
Democracy

Democracy without Religion Is Dead: Part II

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The most important benefits the Christian religion can give to democracy is the awakening of conscience, the substance of ethics, and the rehumanization of society. It gives human freedom guidance, and the human spirit of toleration and forbearance. And it is the Christian religion that teaches a true equality—that of human dignity, on which an imperfect yet a more just society can be built.
Democracy

Democracy without Religion Is Dead

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In a traditional society people are bound, as if by a chain, but democracy breaks the chain, delinking all from all. The tight bonds in traditional societies attach and oblige men to a variety of people and institutions outside of themselves, turning them outward toward others and toward the society around them.
church and state

Separate but Complementary: Tocqueville’s Counsels for Church–State Relations  

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Some today think religion and politics should be more intertwined. Alexis de Tocqueville would have thought just the opposite. 
judges

Filling the Dwindling Judicial Vacancies 

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McConnell will be the deciding vote for fifteen more months. That’s the countdown for a retirement-eligible judge who wants to be replaced by a conservative. 

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