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What Does it Mean to be a ‘Political Animal’?

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A notion of “social practice” should guide the way we think about morality and politics. The first in a three-part series.

God and Terror

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Whether or not one likes religious actors, they are here to stay. The issue is not whether but when and how religious actors will enter public life and shape political outcomes. The third in a three-part series.

Thoughts About Oughts

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The requirements of natural reason in the pursuit of goods provide a more adequate starting point for moral reflection than the theological considerations in which moral reflection should come to its fruition.

What’s Good? Wherefore Ought?

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Only an ethics rooted in the divinely revealed truth of creation-as-gift and creator-as-love can coherently and adequately make sense of the universal experience of ought.

Dismal Science Redeemed: Where to Go from Here

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How and why considering distribution will yield a complete economic science. The second in a two-part series.

Dismal Science Redeemed: What’s Gone Wrong

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A new book challenges us to rediscover the missing element of our economic science. The first in a two-part series.

Same-Sex Marriage and the Assault on Institutional Integrity

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The King & Spalding skedaddle is a blow to the institutional integrity of our legal system. Intimidation is now the default tactic of same-sex marriage advocates.

Building Virtue

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Virtue can only be lived out in communities. But which communities are best suited to promoting virtue?

Equal Basic Rights for All, Born and Unborn

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Not only those with a “future-like-ours,” but all human beings possess equal basic rights.

Marriage and Procreation: Avoiding Bad Arguments

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Defenders of conjugal marriage must be careful to not obscure the true nature of marriage—and the state’s true interest in promoting it.

What Marriage Has Become

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Marriage is fundamentally a pre-political institution.

Business vs. the Market

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Public employee unions aren’t the only seekers of government largesse.

Repelling the Attack on Conscience

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A new bill is needed to fix the healthcare law’s failure to adequately safeguard conscience

Did Pius XII Lie to Save Jews?

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A historian looks at how one man sought to serve both truth and love.

Speaking Truth to Evil

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The Live Action case is very different from the Nazis-at-the-door problem, but lying is justified in neither situation.

Marriage: No Avoiding the Central Question

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A reply to NYU Law Professor Kenji Yoshino’s second critique of “What is Marriage?”

William Brennan and the Creation of a Right to Abortion

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One man’s biography becomes the story of jurisprudence when constitutional interpretation is governed by personality and politics.

The Ambitions of Natural Law Ethics: A Reply to Arkes

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What's unnatural about the Kantian take on natural law.

Illegal Immigration and the Rule of Law

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Laws regulating immigration are analogous to those requiring the payment of taxes or the licensing of physicians. Granting amnesty to illegal immigrants is not in itself unjust, but it may be imprudent.

Constitutional Illusions

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

Abortion Law is Family Law

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Abortion law is usually seen as a matter of constitutional law. Is it time for that to change?

Tea Party Metaphysics: Where Do We Go From Here?

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Social conservatives must understand and embrace America’s traditional economic culture before they can contribute to its renewal. Economic conservatives must expel the infection of shallow anthropology, vulgar utilitarianism, and metaphysical blindness that they picked up from progressivism in the 20th century.

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.

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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