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The second pillar of a decent society is the institution of the family, which is built upon the comprehensive sexual union of man and woman. No other institution can top the family’s ability to transmit what is pivotal—character formation, values, virtues, and enduring love—to each new generation.

Making Sense of America’s Maternal Mortality Crisis

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Thoughts About Oughts

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The requirements of natural reason in the pursuit of goods provide a more adequate starting point for moral reflection than the theological considerations in which moral reflection should come to its fruition.
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The Abolition of Marriage

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New conceptions of marriage threaten to make “traditional marriage” not only unfashionable but also inaccessible.
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Against Divorce: David Hume Defends Traditional Marriage

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Learning from a religious skeptic’s rejection of polygamy and easy divorce.
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Suffer the Little Children: Cohabitation and the Abuse of America’s Children

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Cohabitation does not serve the “best interest” of children, regardless of what the courts say.
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Sexual Revolution: Defend It, If You Can

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Let the sexual revolution be justified on the grounds of the common good.
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Marriage and Procreation: Avoiding Bad Arguments

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Defenders of conjugal marriage must be careful to not obscure the true nature of marriage—and the state’s true interest in promoting it.
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Marriage and Procreation: The Intrinsic Connection

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There is an intrinsic link between marriage and procreation, but this does not mean that infertile couples cannot really be married.
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What Marriage Has Become

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Marriage is fundamentally a pre-political institution.
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On Aristotle’s Wide Applicability

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Aristotelian virtue ethics has very little to say about what is a good political structure or economic system.
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Defending Alasdair MacIntyre’s Economics

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Alasdair MacIntyre may be wrong about the details of finance, but he is right on the largest questions of political economy.
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John Locke and the Evangelical Retreat from Marriage

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John Locke’s philosophy gives no support to those who would seek to endorse same-sex civil marriage.
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Premarital Sex in America

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Dispelling the sexual myths of America’s emerging adults.
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Obama’s Unreasonable Abandonment of DOMA

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President Obama has dropped the defense of marriage out of political convenience rather than reasonable opposition.
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Did Pius XII Lie to Save Jews?

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A historian looks at how one man sought to serve both truth and love.
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Political Responsibility and Exceptionless Moral Norms

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What exceptionless moral norms are we willing to discard for the sake of a good cause?
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When Speaking Falsely is Right

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All lying is immoral, but not all false utterances are lies.
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The Grounds of Our Judgments

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Wrapping up an exchange on judgment and morality.
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Commercialized Sex and Human Bondage

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The American sex trade—strip clubs, prostitution, and the booming pornography business—feeds on and fuels modern-day slavery.
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Sex Gone Wrong

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On the dualism of degrading desire.
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Marching on the Right Side of History

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Defenders of marriage should draw hope and courage from the pro-life movement’s success.
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The Pride of Silence

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Speaking out requires humility as well as courage.
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Natural Law, Natural Rights, and American Constitutionalism

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Announcing the preview of a new online resource from the Witherspoon Institute
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Health, Safety, and Morals

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Whether the case involves pornography or genocide, there are times when authorities must intervene to protect human interests.
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Does Marriage, or Anything, Have Essential Properties?

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A reply to Northwestern Law Professor Andrew Koppelman's second critique of "What is Marriage?"

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