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The Conservative’s Right Mind: A Reply to David Brooks

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Economic liberty is necessary for achieving the real, non-economic goods of individuals and associations in civil society. Not the collectivist “we” of government, but the many “we’s” of civil society are the true ground of a just, and good, society.
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Lemmings, Unite! Be True to Yourself?

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If we encourage people to turn away from what is objectively true and good, to cherish instead their beliefs, whatever those may happen to be, we are teaching them not to think at all.
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Constitutions, Culture, and the Economy

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Constitutional law has often been used to shape economies, but there are limits to the law’s ability to influence economic culture, especially when societal priorities no longer accord with constitutional principles.
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Slavery and the Constitution

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Slavery was a great evil, but the Constitution was neither its source nor its guarantor.
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A Glimpse into the American Mosque

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A new book of essays by 45 American Muslim men provides a timely response to popular anti-Shariah rhetoric by showing that American Muslims love their country and their fellow citizens.
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Politics and Civility: This Week’s Featured Articles

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Building a Culture of Religious Freedom

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If we want a culture of religious freedom, we need to begin it here, today, now. We live it by giving ourselves wholeheartedly to God with passion and joy, confidence and courage; and by holding nothing back. God will take care of the rest. Adapted from remarks delivered yesterday at the Napa Institute’s 2012 annual conference.
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Religious Freedom’s Legal and Moral Basis

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The right to religious freedom was crucial to the Founders’ vision of America. Religious freedom is a right to be protected because it enables us to fulfill our human obligation to seek the truth. The second in a two-part series.
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Chief Justice Roberts and the Changing Conservative Legal Movement

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The clash between Chief Justice Roberts’ opinion and that of the joint dissenters is best seen as a clash between two visions of judicial restraint, and two eras of the conservative legal movement.
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Religious Freedom: Use It or Lose It

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Recalling the history of Americans’ and their British ancestors’ dedication to religious freedom offers lessons for our own struggles that lie ahead.
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Religious Freedom Under Siege: The Bishops Respond

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The American Catholic bishops’ “Fortnight for Freedom,” which begins tomorrow, continues a long tradition of defending religious freedom that began with Sir Thomas More and Bishop John Fisher.
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The Conflict Really Lies within New Atheism

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In his new book "Where the Conflict Really Lies," Alvin Plantinga levels a devastating critique against the “new atheism” espoused by thinkers such as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens.
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Early Religious Freedom in America

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The Founders’ nuanced views of religion and politics prevent us from reading modern concerns about the separation of church and state into their words.
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Self-Government and Judicial Review

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Liberals and conservatives alike often complain hypocritically about judicial activism. If we are to avoid letting judicial activism become rule in favor of whatever causes justices approve, then we should make the presumption of constitutionality a basic principle of judicial review.
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The Audacity of Faith

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The views about faith and religion that President Obama expressed in his Commencement Address at Notre Dame pave the way for his HHS mandate. He would protect the state from the church, not by privatizing faith, but by redefining it.
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Evangelicals and Politics: The Way Forward

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Virtuous citizenship requires building moral consensus across religious and cultural divides. The third in a three-part series.
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Libertarianism: Not So Wrong, After All! A Reply to Nathan Schlueter

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Libertarianism offers the best defense of individual rights that government can employ.
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Why I am Not a Libertarian

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Libertarianism and conservatism are often lumped together, but there are fundamental differences between the two philosophies that make them incompatible.
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Why America Needs Social Conservatism

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An America without social conservatism would be stripped of its conservative enlightenment roots and go the way of Europe via entitlements and centralized economic regulation.
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President Obama, the Right Not to Do Wrong, and the Politics of Ruse and Delay

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No one can be rightly coerced by the state to be directly complicit in the commission of a wrong. This goes for any businessman, employer, insurance company, or individual, regardless of faith.
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Coming Apart, and Back Together?

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Charles Murray argues we’ve come apart, but can therapeutic Deism and the sexual revolution put us back together?
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Keeping Mom, Dad, and Baby: Social Conservatism and the Republican Platform

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In order to win, do Republicans really need to stop talking about abortion and marriage?
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Bullying and Civil Rights

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The Obama Administration’s campaign against “bullying” and “harassment” in schools is a subterfuge to exert federal control over the minutiae of daily school operations and to impose its preferred cultural attitudes.
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Can America Overcome Race?

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In Randall Kennedy’s new book on the dimensions of race in American politics, Kennedy abandons his usual level-headed analysis for a partisan, and misguided, look at American progressivism and conservatism.
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