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The Libertarian Double-Face and the Case for Conservatism: A Reply to Wenzel

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Conservatives value individual liberty as much as libertarians, but they deny that freedom from coercion is the only form of liberty.

Pepsi, Proxies, and Pro-Life Respect for the Rule of (Corporate) Law

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Social activists opposed to the use of HEK-293—a kidney cell line derived from an aborted baby—in PepsiCo products should not respond with shareholder activism, because it wreaks political and economic havoc.

Confusion About Discrimination

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Not all discrimination is wrong. While the government should regulate some forms of wrongful discrimination, other forms of discrimination lie beyond the purview of the state.

Privatizing Marriage Will Expand the Role of the State

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Libertarians are being taken in by rhetoric that sounds libertarian but, in fact, will lead to a dramatic shift in the balance of power between the state and civil society, indeed between the state and the natural order itself.

Privatizing Marriage Is Impossible

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We cannot escape the fact that marriage is an intrinsically public institution. We can’t avoid making collective decisions about its meaning and purpose. If we don’t do it explicitly, we will end up doing it implicitly.

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.

Special Education and Shirked Responsibility

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The commitment to educate special needs children was one of the most laudable education policy achievements of the twentieth century and it must be protected.

What’s at Stake in the “Same-Sex Marriage” Debate?

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The law cannot be divorced from reality, from nature. The moment this happens, law becomes arbitrary, the whim of the ruling power: it becomes tyranny.

Marriage Unmoored

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Many expect that the Supreme Court will soon overturn the traditional marriage laws remaining on the books in forty-three states, a prospect that would have been unthinkable only a decade or two ago. What happened?

Equality versus Freedom?

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Lawmakers must look past the “equality versus religious freedom” standoff, and consider the substantive merits of each particular case.

Conservative Poverty Fighting

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Neither liberal nor libertarian, a principled conservative way of helping the poor.

Tax Romney, not Corporations

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It’s time to end the corporate income tax: it strains job-creating businesses, punishes workers rather than capital owners, encourages wealthy companies to find loopholes in the tax system, and allows some of the richest among us to pay strangely low personal income tax rates.

The Same-Sex “Marriage” Proposal is Unjust Discrimination

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The conjugal conception of marriage is just and coherent; the same-sex marriage proponents’ conception of marriage is unjust and incoherent.

The Unbearable Wrongness of Roe

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39 years ago, the Supreme Court delivered a radical, legally untenable, immoral decision. It has forfeited its entitlement to have its decisions respected, and followed, by the other branches of government, by the states, and by the people.

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.

Advocating Same-Sex Marriage: Consistency Is Another Victim

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If tradition is not a good reason to limit marriage to a man and a woman, it is also not a good reason to limit it to only two people.

The Authority to Kill

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If one doubts America’s high authority to undertake war for the sake of ideals, one must also question its high authority to administer the death penalty.

Sexual Abuse and Moral Indifference

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The recent scandal at Penn State has brought to light more than just sexual abuse and its cover-up; it has exposed the indifference that cultural norms have groomed in some of our young adults.

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.

Child Sexual Abuse and the Supreme Court

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The Supreme Court has helped to foster a culture that encourages the sexual exploitation of children.

Being Human in an Age of Unbelief

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Four points in defense of human dignity. Adapted from an address delivered last night at the University of Pennsylvania.

The Westboro Problem: Free Speech, Public Decency, and Constitutional Doctrine

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A recent appellate court ruling in favor of a Westboro Baptist protester shows the decline of judicial ability to protect decency standards for public discourse.

A Modest Proposal to Reduce Unnecessary Divorce

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A new proposal for reducing unnecessary divorce gets to the heart of the problem: the current system seeks to meet a divorcing couple’s every need—except for time and education on reconciliation.

It’s a Girl

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The Supreme Court’s abortion jurisprudence appears to protect a right to abortion even for reasons of sex selection. Yet this gruesome reality might provide an opening for a frontal assault on the premises of Roe v. Wade.
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