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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.
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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.
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Just War and the Iran Crisis

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It would be wrong for the United States to engage at this time in an attack on Iran or to participate substantially in an Israeli action.
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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.
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The Meaning of Modernism

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Modernist poetry embodies the philosophical perspective of late liberal Western society, giving form to the conception of freedom divorced from essence, the theoretical primacy of the individual, and the broad skepticism towards any notion of a rational human nature. The first in a two-part series.
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God Matters: Ethical Theory and Divine Law

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The construction of an ethical theory, as a general matter, inevitably implicates philosophical theology.
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Hosanna in the Highest!

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In a recent decision, the Supreme Court has held that the First Amendment provides additional and independent rights to religious organizations, beyond those to which non-religious groups are entitled.
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The Postmodern Pedophile

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Meet the academics who try to redefine pedophilia as “intergenerational intimacy.”
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Against the Architects of Empire

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Contemporary architecture is profoundly anti-natural.
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End Human Trafficking: A Contemporary Slavery

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A culture of exploitation and violence, especially sexual exploitation of children, is at epidemic levels here in the United States and around the world. The current Administration’s response is anemic and more must be done.
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A Realist Philosophical Case For Urbanism and Against Sprawl: Part Two

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Arguments for traditional urbanism are de facto truth claims about nature and human nature, and point to and are supported by the natural law. Why we can and should think normatively about our building patterns. Part two of two.
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The Family’s End

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The logic of contract and the movement to conquer nature have resulted in the triumph of autonomy and demise of the family. The first of a two-part series.
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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.
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From Heels to Wheels: American Zoning Laws and the End of Western Public Space

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Zoning codes used to favor settlement patterns scaled for human beings. No longer.
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Sexual Revolution: Defend It, If You Can

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Let the sexual revolution be justified on the grounds of the common good.
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Stem Cells: The Scientists Knew They Were Lying?

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Prominent bioethicists Arthur Caplan and Robert P. George on the danger of discounting ethics and overselling science.
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John Locke and the Evangelical Retreat from Marriage

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John Locke’s philosophy gives no support to those who would seek to endorse same-sex civil marriage.
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Why Lying is Always Wrong

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Lying, even for laudable reasons, is wrong.
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Marriage: Merely a Social Construct?

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A response to Northwestern Law Professor Andrew Koppelman.
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The Particular Appeal of Universal Principles

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Responding to a review of his most recent book, Hadley Arkes asks some questions about the nature of natural law.
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A Tale of Two Plazas

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The public spaces where we live and work and relax have a real, if subtle, impact on how each of us experiences and reflects on our world.
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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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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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