fbpx
Facebook Twitter Instagram Youtube Rss
Search
Close this search box.
Search Results For:

Search Results for: lash – Page 10

Public Discourse

An Originalist Critique of the Court’s Free Speech Tradition

By
Free-speech jurisprudence has reached a state where it is acceptable to abridge speech on matters of public concern, but not on vile or private speech. And the Supreme Court has usurped the authority of line-drawing from the people to empower itself.
Public Discourse

The National Bank: An Early Lesson in Constitutional Fidelity

By
The debate over the creation of a national bank reveals how Washington, Jefferson and Hamilton, despite profound disagreements, argued respectfully with prudence and fidelity to the Constitution. All three men offer valuable examples to today’s statesmen.
Public Discourse

Supreme Court Nominations and the Virtues of a Resolute Senate

By
Liberal activists claim that the Senate must consider an Obama nomination to the Court. In fact, it would be unprecedented for a Supreme Court justice to be confirmed under a divided government during a term-limited president’s final year in office.
Public Discourse

The Ideology of Anti-Poetry

By
A recent collection of essays on the nature and function of poetry gives a clear-sighted critique of the failures of contemporary poetry.
Public Discourse

No Longer Calm, But Alive: Robert Royal’s Catholic Humanism

By
Robert Royal makes the case that, despite a twentieth-century period of confusion and fragmentation, Christian humanism has been renewed and revitalized, so that today it is “as alive as it has ever been.”
Public Discourse

Shakespeare’s Critique of the American Regime: A Response to John McGinnis

By
Since understanding political life is essential to understanding human nature, and revealing human nature is the mark of a masterful poet, great poetry like that of Shakespeare necessarily reflects political principles.
Public Discourse

European Resistance to Cultural Suicide

By
Across Europe citizens are fighting back to protect faith, family, and freedom.
Public Discourse

No Room for Sanity at the Inn: Stifling Democratic Debate over Same-Sex Marriage

By
Democracy and common sense teach us to seek the truth by listening to one another. If we will not even provide a room for people who want to talk with one another because we do not like what they say, then democracy is impossible.
Public Discourse

Michel Houellebecq and the Islamist Future of Europe

By
A best-selling new novel taps into an angst that has become an obsession in Europe.
Public Discourse

Commercial Surrogacy: Stop It or Just Regulate It?

By
When motherhood becomes a mere avenue to a paycheck, both the woman and the child she carries are wronged. Surrogacy undermines the dignity of both women and children.
Public Discourse

Public Morality and the Lure of Profit

By
The liberal campaign to redefine marriage is not over. Attempts to secure constitutional rights to polygamy and polyamory are on the way. Conservatives must pursue a new strategy to thwart private corporations from undermining public morality if we hope to prevent further changes to the institution of marriage and protect other vital elements of public morality.
Public Discourse

Assisted Suicide and Our Society of Autonomy

By
The individualism required by a society of autonomy shuts down love, dependence, and self-sacrifice. To extinguish grief, we are told, we must extinguish the grieving.
Public Discourse

Slaying the Hydra: Can Virtue Heal the American Right?

By
The modern administrative state and our militant secular culture are like two heads of a single hydra. To destroy the beast, we must deal with the monster in its totality.
Public Discourse

For Baby, #AnotherBoy, and Millions More: Why I’m Speaking Out about Miscarriage and Abortion

By
Having carried life in my womb, I cannot look away. I cannot cloak reality in another name: early pregnancy loss is death, and willful termination is killing.
Public Discourse

Religion and the Republic

By
A true republic respects religious speech. Such speech represents a different authority from governing power and affirms its limited nature.
Public Discourse

Persecution, Past and Present: Candida Moss’s Unintentional Gift to Christians

By
Candida Moss’s book on the history of Christian persecution is a case study in how scholarship gives way to politicized polemic—but it’s also an important reminder for contemporary Christians.
Public Discourse

Correcting Six Mistakes from the Same-Sex Marriage Oral Arguments Last Week

By
Although there were many good arguments and questions at the Supreme Court last week, there were also some significant errors.
Public Discourse

Dear Monica: Cyberbullying Is Wrong – But So Is Adultery

By
Monica Lewinsky has reappeared on the national stage and is speaking out against cyberbullying. Perhaps she should consider addressing the breakdown of the American family instead.
Public Discourse

“A Rather Antinomian Christianity”: John Updike’s Religion

By
John Updike believed in a strange sort of Christianity that rejected the strictures of traditional faith, choosing divine comfort while rejecting divine commands. In other words, it was gospel without law, grace without repentance, the love of God without the holiness of God.
Public Discourse

God, Reason, and Our Civilizational Crisis

By
The way that a culture understands the nature of God shapes its conception of man, reason, and society. Though this presents enormous challenges for the Islamic world, it also has significant implications for the sustainability of Western civilization.
Public Discourse

The Oldest Trick in the Book Reviewer’s Book: On Misreading Conscience and Its Enemies

By
James M. Oleske’s “review” of my new book is no review at all. It’s an intellectually dishonest hit piece.
Public Discourse

Is Christian Teaching on Sexuality Psychologically Harmful?

By and
For parents with LGBT children, Christianity offers an alternative to false dilemmas of affirmation or abandonment.
Public Discourse

Challenging Unjust Laws Takes Prudence, Courage, and Common Sense

By
In the real world, human goods are often in conflict with one another. This reality forces us to make difficult choices and trade-offs that cannot be eliminated or adjudicated by following simple rules.
Public Discourse

Sex Education in America: How Yesterday’s Extremists Shaped Today’s Sex Ed

By
In order to influence the future of sex education, we must have a nuanced understanding of its colorful past.
Facebook Twitter Instagram Youtube Rss
Public Discourse © 2024 | All Rights Reserved