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Obama, DOMA, and Constitutional Responsibility

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President Obama’s decision to refuse to defend DOMA is not an act of executive assertion so much as an expression of deep deference to the courts.
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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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Christmas and Western Civilization

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Though Christmas is a religious holiday, secularists should appreciate its great contribution to Western Civilization: the lesson that all men are equal in their fundamental human dignity.
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Moral Principles and Human Happiness

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Moral principles should be derived from experience about what makes people happy, not from logic.
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Kant the Bogey Man

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Kant was right: we need principles to guide our judgments.
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The Particular Appeal of Universal Principles

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Responding to a review of his most recent book, Hadley Arkes asks some questions about the nature of natural law.
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Constitutional Illusions

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A new book by Hadley Arkes draws attention to the contradictions and ambiguities of the republic’s jurisprudence.
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Ambiguity at the American Acropolis

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An exhibition by contemporary artist Enrique Martínez Celaya at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (on view through November 23rd) is a unique chance to contrast the uncertainty of our own age with the New Medievalism of the great American architect, Ralph Adams Cram.
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Why We Can’t Help But Legislate Morality

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All legislation is moral. The sooner we recognize this fact, the better.
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Tea Party Metaphysics: Economics and First Principles

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The Tea Party taps into the full social and cultural power of transcendent moral appeals in a way that social conservatives have never been able to do. The first in a two-part series.
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Marriage and the Law of Tradition

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Custom and tradition, far from being necessarily irrational, are often the vehicles of guiding and binding reason.
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The Mosque’s Lesson on Loyalty

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It is natural and good to have loyalty and love for one’s own.
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American Empire for Liberty

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We shouldn’t worry about America becoming an empire—a new book explains that it has been one for a long, long time.
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Small Steps Toward Justice

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A Review of Clark Forsythe’s Politics for the Greatest Good
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The Dangerous Vacuity of Our Public Discourse

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Our failure to engage in substantive political debate can tempt us to write our opponents out of the political community.
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Interracial Marriage and Same-Sex Marriage

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Why the analogy fails.
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Putting Ethics Back Together Again: A British Perspective

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Much of our moral confusion comes from our failure to find a replacement for the Judaeo-Christian outlook that once animated the West. We need, and generally now lack, a philosophical understanding of human life.
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Marriage As Friendship

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One of the best ways to bolster American unions is to promote a proper understanding of friendship and marriage.
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Is There Value in Religious Pluralism?

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If religious traditions, belief systems, and moral frameworks are the result of a genuine commitment to and search for the truth, then disagreement of truth claims among adherents must be taken as a sign that some, or even all, of the searches have failed. How can this be a good state of affairs?
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2009: A Critical Year for Protecting Children

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The recent passage of the PROTECT Our Children Act makes 2009 a critical year in governmental efforts to protect children from sexual exploitation.
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Our Struggle for the Soul of our Nation

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In remarks delivered yesterday at the Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life, Robert P. George reflected on the history of the pro-life movement and offered advice for its future.
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The Reasons for Banning Abortion

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One need not be religious to oppose abortion. A simple look at what it does to new human life and what it has done to contemporary society is more than reason enough. New horrors loom on the horizon, but there is reason for hope.
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The Pro-Life Case Against Barack Obama . . . and Doug Kmiec

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The Obama apologists are at it again, this time attacking Archbishop Charles Chaput for speaking out against their candidate's pro-abortion views. But the latest salvo from Doug Kmiec is a tangled web of falsehoods and fallacies.
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Democrats, Obama, and Abortion: Turning Liberalism Incoherent

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Can the Democratic Party's awkward position on infanticide and abortion be regarded as simply a lesser matter in an ensemble of "other issues" of higher standing? Or does that position challenge the very coherence of everything else that a liberal party proclaims itself to be?
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