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The Perils of Polygamy

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Recent empirical research suggests that, in virtually every respect, polygamy is socially detrimental—to society in general, to men, to women, and to children.
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Liberalism Is Bad for Literature

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Jeffrey Eugenides shows what happens to the novel when courtship and marriage lose their binding character.
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The Libertarian Double-Face and the Case for Conservatism: A Reply to Wenzel

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Conservatives value individual liberty as much as libertarians, but they deny that freedom from coercion is the only form of liberty.
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Privatizing Marriage Is Unjust to Children

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The primary business of the state is justice. Because children cannot be autonomous, adult society has an obligation in justice to provide institutional structures that protect their most basic interests.
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Privatizing Marriage Will Expand the Role of the State

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Libertarians are being taken in by rhetoric that sounds libertarian but, in fact, will lead to a dramatic shift in the balance of power between the state and civil society, indeed between the state and the natural order itself.
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Privatizing Marriage Is Impossible

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We cannot escape the fact that marriage is an intrinsically public institution. We can’t avoid making collective decisions about its meaning and purpose. If we don’t do it explicitly, we will end up doing it implicitly.
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Disability: A Thread for Weaving Joy

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While some people resent the imperfection, the inconvenience, and the expense of persons with disabilities, others see in them an invitation to learn how to love deeply without counting the cost. God will demand an accounting. Adapted from remarks delivered at the Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life.
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The Great Recession: What Will You Tell Your Grandchild?

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Economic, political, and ethical principles that encourage limited government must interact in our effort to secure long-term economic stability.
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Contemporary Family Law: Divorcing Marriage from Children

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Family law has changed during the past 50 years to the detriment of child well-being, paving the way for the arguments in support of same-sex marriage. But there is a new strategy available to us to respond to this situation. The second in a two-part series.
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An Economic Case for More Kids?

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Bryan Caplan’s latest book argues that we don’t need to over-invest time and money on our kids, because our lasting influence on their characters is negligible, while their contribution to our material well-being is significant.
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A Modest Proposal to Reduce Unnecessary Divorce

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A new proposal for reducing unnecessary divorce gets to the heart of the problem: the current system seeks to meet a divorcing couple’s every need—except for time and education on reconciliation.
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Empower Parents: Restore the Constitution by Returning Educational Policy to the States

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Presidential candidates in the 2012 election must be prepared to protect the interests of parents and children nationwide by rolling back the progressive education agenda and returning to the states their constitutional power to make decisions about education.
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Defend Our Laws: Justice Matters

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In developing their positions on Supreme Court appointments and the Department of Justice, presidential candidates should 1) welcome the battle over the Supreme Court, 2) determine to fight hard for high-quality justices, 3) frame the argument for why abortion policy should be restored to the democratic processes, 4) support the Defense of Marriage Act, and 5) commit to select senior legal leaders who fully embrace their goals and priorities.
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Defend Marriage: Moms and Dads Matter

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Presidential candidates in the next election should uphold marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
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Liberty, Justice, and the Common Good: Political Principles for 2012 and Beyond

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Introducing a Public Discourse symposium on the 2012 election.
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40 Years Later: How to Undo the Autonomy Argument for Abortion Rights

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In response to pro-choice appeals to autonomy in support of abortion, we feminists should advocate that parents—both mothers and fathers—have binding duties to their unborn child as the product of their life-giving sexual act.
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Sex Ed Mandates and Children’s Innocence

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New York’s new sex education mandate excludes abstinence-only options and forces all city school children to learn about “safe sex” in the sixth and seventh grades.
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The Two-Biological-Parent Family and Economic Prosperity: Where to Go From Here

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Five suggestions for how our nation can regain a healthy marriage culture and the economic prosperity and personal flourishing that comes with it. The second in a two-part series.
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Planned Parenthood’s Lawless Policies

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Planned Parenthood must account for its disregard for the law if it wishes to retain state funding.
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That’s Entertainment: Free Speech and the Moral Regulation of the Arts

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A recent Supreme Court case reveals a division amongst conservatives over the moral foundations of the law.
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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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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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What Marriage Has Become

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Marriage is fundamentally a pre-political institution.
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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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