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The Human Person

The first pillar of a decent society is respect for the human person, which recognizes that all individual human beings have dignity simply because of the kind of being they are: animals whose rational faculties allow them to know, love, reason, and communicate. It also recognizes that human beings are persons, members of the human family who flourish in a community that respects their fundamental rights and who long to discover transcendent truths about the nature of reality.

Female Fertility and Athleticism: Two Sides of the Same Coin 

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Female Fertility and Athleticism: Two Sides of the Same Coin 

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Perhaps the greatest lesson we can learn from the Olympian mothers is that women are more than their bodies, and that we are all called to integrated human excellence, body and soul. 
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AI, Magnifica Humanitas, and the Law of the Golem 

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The Talmudic and rabbinic tradition diverges from the latest encyclical, and the divergence highlights a paradox in the papal logic. Leo XIV’s strongest move, his categorical prohibition against the use of AI to make “lethal or otherwise irreversible decisions,” demands a more principled distinction between the Switchblade and the CyberKnife.
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Pessimism Abroad 

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The broad acceptance by self-described conservatives of casual war, initiated without the approval of the clear constitutional authority of Congress, is in sharp contrast to the caution and prudence at the heart of the conservative disposition.
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Imperfect Pro-Life Lawmaking in Post-Dobbs America 

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By re-energizing a state’s pro-life base and attracting enough swing voters to tip the scales, the movement can make real, even if “imperfect,” progress toward ending elective abortion in America.  
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Against False Technological Necessity 

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AI can shift how we communicate with one another, what work looks like for many roles, how relationships unfold, and how we order our lives. Much of our reaction to these projects reflects the understanding that this technology has the power to reshape the way humanity marches into the future, and not always in a way that serves the greater good.  
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Why Opposition to Abortion Requires Precision about Intention 

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Abortion opponents have not provided a good answer to the objection that restricting abortion will endanger pregnant women.  
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Authenticity, RIP: Lionel Trilling Revisited 

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Authenticity was a cultural force that risked destroying culture itself. In the early twenty-first century, the time has perhaps come to rediscover it.  
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Betting on God 

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Atheism is at least as much an act of faith as theism is. 
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From Promised Autonomy to Delivered Harm: Structural Violence in the Era of Mail-Order Abortion Drugs 

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Government systems should be designed with care in mind, not weaponized to harm abortion-vulnerable women. 
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Mother’s Day and the Foolishness of Speech

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As a mother, I am coming to understand more concretely—and thus more deeply—what self-emptying love must look like, and thus I am coming to appreciate Christ's coming more deeply.
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Nietzsche, Jesus, and the Task of Being Human 

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Both Jesus and Nietzsche announce in the same sort of bold terms their own visions of life and death; prosperity and adversity. They set before us two paths to consider: one leading toward the flourishing life and one leading toward death. One toward liberation and one into oppression. Which path will we choose? 
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Two Cities, Two Birthdays 

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We can be Christians first, for the sake of the country we love. 
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Happy “Birth” Day? A Thought Experiment 

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The definition of “personhood” isn’t an issue we can push off much longer; technology will make us face it sooner than some might prefer.
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Embrace the Limit: And the Limit Shall Set You Free 

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Being bound is a gift, not a curse.  
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The Dark History of American Nativism 

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For all its failures and drawbacks—and there are many—American culture’s focus on individual freedom is intoxicating and infectious.
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Günther Anders’s Bleak Picture of the Tech-Perfected Society 

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We are using our genius to degrade ourselves into nothing much at all, and the existential results are anxiety and shame at how small we have become. 
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The Bookshelf: The Return of Sybil

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If the witch crazes of recovered memory and multiple personalities are making a comeback, perhaps now aided by social contagion online, we would do well to gird ourselves with a sound understanding of psychiatry’s vulnerability to misdirection—and of the harm it can do to the souls under its care.
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A Look Inside the Endometriosis Epidemic  

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Can We Restore Hope in Women’s Healthcare? 
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A Digital Age Babbitt

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If Sinclair Lewis were writing today, would his Babbitt look markedly different?
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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.
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Lenten Love

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Lent ought to be the training ground for how to approach things of value with proper reverence. In other words, Lent retrains our loves.
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On Dying Well: Ben Sasse and the Vocation of Suffering 

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Ben Sasse’s recent announcement reveals to us both goods and virtues that show in his dying a glimmer of light, a stirring of hope, and the possibility of spring even in one’s final winter.
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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.
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Disability, Human Nature, and Rethinking Neurodiversity 

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We can value the strengths and perspectives of those with disabilities and their loved ones while affirming objective reality and universal human dignity.

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