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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.
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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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Swastikas, Burning Crosses, and “God Hates Fags”

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It’s time for conservatives and liberals alike to remember that certain words by their very utterance inflict injury.
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Elitism and Judicial Supremacy

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Faced with an increasingly democratic political system, American elites have turned to the courts as an alternate means of enacting their political and constitutional agenda.
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Religion, Journalism, and the New American Orthodoxy

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In an address delivered today before the Religion Newswriters Association, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Denver commended America's journalists of religion and challenged them to approach their important work with integrity, fairness, and humility.
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Distracted by the Mosque

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The controversy over the so-called “Ground Zero mosque” cannot be understood apart from the history of other communities and their struggles to overcome religious intolerance. And no one should exploit such fears for quick partisan gain.
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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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A Marriage Tail

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Re-examining the essential characteristics of marriage.
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Conservative Folly on the High Court

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In a series of recent cases, the Supreme Court’s conservative justices have abandoned judicial restraint.
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The Gold Standard: A Principled Case

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In charting our future monetary policies, we should remember the trade-offs of competing alternatives.
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Diversity and Discrimination in the Case of the Christian Legal Society

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Our struggle to identify the sort of diversity that is conducive to a vibrant, participatory, and just society is primarily a political inquiry, not a constitutional one.
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Politics and Principle

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The recent actions of New Jersey governor Chris Christie have stirred up a political storm, but they are a reminder of the principles that underlie our politics.
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Interracial Marriage and Same-Sex Marriage

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Why the analogy fails.
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Immigration and Self-Governance

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Three issues—the right to secure borders, the moral costs of illegal immigration, and the virtues of generous neighborliness and forgiveness—must be clarified in order to address the problems of immigration reform.
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Liberalism and Higher Education

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Sometimes a defense of shared liberal values can become the partisan promotion of one of liberalism's strands.
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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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Islam’s European Reformation?

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The controversial Tariq Ramadan’s latest book promotes a “Western” version of Islam. Is he the “Muslim Martin Luther”?
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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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Darwin’s Disciples Today

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As we celebrate the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of the Species, it is time to realize that the best way to honor his legacy is to fight its over-extension and misapplication into the realm of politics. The second in a two-part series.
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The Origins of Darwinian Political Thought

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As we celebrate the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species, it is time to realize that the best way to honor his legacy is to fight its overextension and misapplication into the realm of politics. The first in a two-part series.
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Do We Have a Right to Equal Health Care?

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Calls for health-care reform confuse the basic right to healthcare and a desire for healthcare that is in all ways equal.
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The Financial Crisis and the Challenge of Natural Law

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Is the current financial crisis simply a technical failure, or does it derive from some more basic problem? Economists may need to begin addressing fundamental questions concerned with value, and for that, they may turn to the natural law tradition.
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What’s Really the Matter With Pop Music?

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Popular music shapes us and our culture, but not only through its lyrics.
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