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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.
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Building Virtue

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

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Marriage is fundamentally a pre-political institution.
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Business vs. the Market

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Public employee unions aren’t the only seekers of government largesse.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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?”
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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.
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The Ambitions of Natural Law Ethics: A Reply to Arkes

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