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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.

Betting on God 

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Blaise Pascal

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. 
Mother's Day

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.
Fork in the road

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? 
Easter

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.  
Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island

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.
tech obsession

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. 
multiple personality disorder

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.
Fabritius The Goldfinch

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.
Ben Sasse

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.
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.
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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.
romance and dating

Is Romance Dead or Delayed?

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Why Young People Are Avoiding Dating ... And What We Can Do About It 
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Body Literacy Is the New “Sex Ed” 

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A culture that teaches girls to silence their pain, medicate their cycles, and dismiss the body’s signals is a culture that will inevitably reap infertility, despair, and declining birthrates. A culture that teaches body literacy, by contrast, will raise young people who see their fertility as a vital sign of health and an essential part of their future.
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The MAHA Case for Advanced Genetic Editing 

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If the goal of medicine is to protect and restore life, then our efforts and investments should flow to therapies that treat the sick, not to technologies that eliminate them before they are born. 
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? 
Jonathan Haidt

Jonathan Haidt and the Limits of Expertise 

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We do not need experts to tell us how to get our kids out of the machine.  
Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge’s “Hebraic Mortar” 

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Henry Ford sought to mainstream anti-Jewish sentiment in the United States. In a 1925 address, Coolidge decisively broke with Ford’s movement. 
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Smartphones and the New Tribalism 

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What place smartphones have in our future is uncertain, but whatever it is, all generations should be alert to the problem.

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