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From the Editor’s Desk: Public Discourse’s Monthly Roundup, September 2024

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A crucial aspect of Public Discourse’s mission is to be a beacon of light and a forum for serious, rigorous, and truth-seeking discourse even when temptations toward despair, radicalization, and provocative polemics abound. At PD, we charitably examine and challenge ideas and arguments—we don’t attack or demonize people, and we don’t serve any worldview, party, or ideology besides the cause of truth.
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From the Editor’s Desk: Public Discourse’s Monthly Roundup, August 2024

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There are numerous ways that we increasingly strive to defy the natural limits our embodiedness imposes on us, and our pulling away from community and connectedness is just one example. In this kind of world, it’s easy to forget that our physical bodies, and all the limits and inconveniences they impose on us (or others!), matter a great deal. So it’s no mistake that our August essays seemed to touch on that theme. 
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From the Editor’s Desk: Public Discourse’s Monthly Roundup, July 2024

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If ennobling discourse is now countercultural, so too is our journal. Like the Witherspoon Institute, PD is an institution that bears witness to a virtuous (and virtuously “slower”) mode of public engagement: engagement that reflects an open-hearted, honest yearning for the common good.
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From the Editor’s Desk: Public Discourse’s Monthly Roundup, June 2024

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We do our best to build, strengthen, and defend the basic institutions of a free and flourishing people, institutions of the family, religion, good government, and education. At times we critique and note shortcomings, but even those criticisms are for something rather than against: we are for flourishing, for good institutions, and for the nation.
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The Public Discourse Summer Reading List: 2024

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Here's what our editors are reading this summer.
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From the Editor’s Desk: Public Discourse’s Monthly Roundup, May 2024

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We work hard at every level of the editorial process to ensure that our essays are well-crafted, that our language is precise and that our arguments are sound. But most of all, we want to encourage and teach our readers to appreciate a well-formed argument, even if they ultimately come to a different conclusion than we do.
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From the Editor’s Desk: Public Discourse’s Monthly Roundup, April 2024

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Strap in, everyone, for we need to acknowledge that what is called for now is a generational effort, likely to be multi-generational, to recover reality. And it all requires the family. As the family goes, so goes our society. The flashpoint at the university, in the end, is far downstream from what is happening in the family.
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The Right and Future of Capitalism: Part 2

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I don’t underestimate the difficulties in trying to shape the culture in which our markets operate. They are indeed formidable. But undertaking that type of work helps define, I suggest, what it means to be a conservative in the modern world.
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From the Editor’s Desk: Public Discourse’s Monthly Roundup, March 2024

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The truth lurking inside the great morass of opinions, questions, and fears about the human condition is that a confluence of factors leads to greater personal, familial, and communal flourishing.
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From the Editor’s Desk: Public Discourse’s Monthly Roundup, February 2024

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Reflections on right reason plus a roundup of this month's essays
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From the Editor’s Desk: Public Discourse’s Monthly Roundup, January 2024

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Reflections on hope, plus a roundup of this month's essays
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The 2023 Public Discourse Book List

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Our reading recommendations from a year of contemplation and enchantment. 
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From the Editor’s Desk: Public Discourse’s Monthly Roundup, November 2023

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Tension is something we at Public Discourse strive to handle well. Ours is a voice of reason, moderation, and calm even as storms swirl around us. The kind and thoughtful operation of reason always leaves peace, not awkwardness, not lingering tension, in its wake. 
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From the Editor’s Desk: Public Discourse’s Monthly Roundup, October 2023

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Such technocratic management, incapable of moral action, is, I suggest, what Magerman notes at Penn. But, alas, it is true of far too many of our institutions and those who manage them. Not so at Public Discourse, however, and not so for those educated in older, richer, wiser traditions of moral reflection and judgment—and thus of action. Our essays this past month are full of such riches.
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From the Editor’s Desk: Public Discourse’s Monthly Roundup, September 2023

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Back-to-school reflections, plus a roundup of this month’s essays
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From the Editor’s Desk: Public Discourse’s Monthly Roundup, August 2023

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Reflections on college drop-off and the centrality of kids to the human experience - plus, a roundup of this month's essays
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For the 2024 Election, We Must Relearn to Be Citizens

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As 2024 approaches, there will be tremendous temptations to go still further in taking the gloves off in an attempt to prevail by any means necessary. There will be power at stake, but also tremendous profit as the purveyors of opinion seek to build audiences and sell advertisements. But we are not helpless. We can be more fair to each other and thus create the conditions for a more fruitful discourse.
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From the Editor’s Desk: Public Discourse’s Monthly Roundup, July 2023

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A welcome from the new managing editor, plus a review of this month’s essays.
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From the Editor’s Desk: Public Discourse’s Monthly Roundup, June 2023

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Rather than sandlot games and diving contests, June is, for us, a month of contested visions about the body, about sex, gender, race, birth, and death. Perhaps the poet was wrong in declaring April the cruelest month—perhaps that title should go to June. 
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From the Editor’s Desk: Public Discourse’s Monthly Roundup, May 2023

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Nature has to be understood and respected for people to be happy.
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From the Editor’s Desk: Public Discourse’s Monthly Roundup, April 2023

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Public Discourse continues to believe that a free and flourishing society is possible. But it depends on the hard work of strengthening our roots—marriage, families, communities, and institutions. We do this work not because we want things to be fixed in place, but because without healthy roots we’ll be thwarted in the task of lifting our sights to the true and the good.

From the Editor’s Desk: Public Discourse’s Monthly Roundup, March 2023

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At Public Discourse, we intend to play the role of moderation and calm. We know our society is in the middle of a Revolution—and not a good one—and we know conservatives are experimenting and fracturing in their responses. We try to read and understand all the trends, all the possibilities, and stay calm and reasonable as we host debate and conversation about the best way forward.
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The Bookshelf: Enter 2023 Laughing

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There is a lot of mileage to be gained out of mockery, and nowhere more than in satire and parody. But successful parody depends on close study, intimate familiarity with the target, and that can often produce a certain gentleness and sympathy in the result.
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Treatise or Tweet? A Review of Stephen Wolfe’s The Case for Christian Nationalism (Part 2)

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A call to repentance or prayer would not preclude action, but it would certainly force necessary and prudent reflection about the very problems Wolfe diagnoses and what the first response should be. Creating a deplorables basket of enemies on the political Left, while ignoring spiritual enemies, makes the project more political for sure, but not more Christian.
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