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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.

Imperfect Pro-Life Lawmaking in Post-Dobbs America 

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Make America Good Again 

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America is great because America is good: that is the proposition. But is the proposition plausible? And “good” means ... what?
Supreme Court

Originalists Need the Classical Legal Tradition 

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The conservative legal movement has come far, but we’re just getting started. 
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Poetry and the Politics of Aspirational Conservatism 

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More than the squabbles of party politics, conservatives ought to be concerned with defending our civilization’s way of life and the ordered liberty that sustains it.
Pascal

Pierre Manent’s Challenge to Modern Atheism  

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Pascal’s theology is sublime, beautiful, and all-consuming. But it reflects the life of a celibate mystic rather than that of the statesman who must transmit Christian culture. Statesmen after all must wager. 
Migrants

The Catholic Church and Care for Migrants  

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The Church has a long tradition of generous care for migrants, while allowing room for legitimate regulation.
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

The Ninth Circuit’s Religious Freedom Coup 

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For years, perhaps the most serious threat to religious organizations’ freedom to live according to their faith has been the ever-growing specter of nondiscrimination laws. The Ninth Circuit’s decision here offers perhaps the strongest opportunity we have seen yet to affirm the constitutional right of religious organizations to hire according to their faith. 
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Identity and Recognition Are the Polarized Polis’s Chief Virtues 

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Tocqueville’s insight anticipates Taylor’s: a democracy built on dialogical identity easily turns into a society where individuals depend on the crowd for self-definition.
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Political Philology: J. R. R. Tolkien Against the Leftists 

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If I may be permitted to so step beyond my bounds and attempt to speak for what Tolkien’s advice might be, I believe his recommendation would be this: teach, read, and write poetry, for that is the first step toward viewing language as not merely a tool for communication, but a science, an art, a heritage, and a way in which man resembles God. 
Declaration of Independence

Without Virtue, Freedom Fails 

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We cannot expect to preserve a liberal democracy until each generation learns to embrace its civic responsibilities.
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.  
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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. 
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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.  

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