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God and Terror

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Whether or not one likes religious actors, they are here to stay. The issue is not whether but when and how religious actors will enter public life and shape political outcomes. The third in a three-part series.
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God and Democratic Diplomacy

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We can no longer afford to hang on to secularization theories as we design policy for nations from Libya to Egypt, Iran to Pakistan, Nigeria to Indonesia, and the numerous other societies being reshaped by the partisans of God in the 21st century. The second in a three-part series.
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God and Political Science

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The view of global politics taught by political scientists is the poorest possible preparation for the era of global politics in which we now live. As we address central geopolitical challenges, we must delve into the details of religion and religious actors. The first in a three-part series.
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Thoughts About Oughts

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The requirements of natural reason in the pursuit of goods provide a more adequate starting point for moral reflection than the theological considerations in which moral reflection should come to its fruition.
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Closing the Door on Education Innovation

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The feds are working behind the scenes to nationalize K-12 curriculum, including a national test. This would be bad for schools, and disastrous for the culture.
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Dismal Science Redeemed: Where to Go from Here

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How and why considering distribution will yield a complete economic science. The second in a two-part series.
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Dismal Science Redeemed: What’s Gone Wrong

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A new book challenges us to rediscover the missing element of our economic science. The first in a two-part series.
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The Abolition of Marriage

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New conceptions of marriage threaten to make “traditional marriage” not only unfashionable but also inaccessible.
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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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Against Divorce: David Hume Defends Traditional Marriage

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Learning from a religious skeptic’s rejection of polygamy and easy divorce.
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Suffer the Little Children: Cohabitation and the Abuse of America’s Children

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Cohabitation does not serve the “best interest” of children, regardless of what the courts say.
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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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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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Politics and the Devil

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A healthy democracy depends on people of conviction working hard to advance their ideas in the public square—respectfully and peacefully, but vigorously and without apologies. We cannot simultaneously serve the poor and accept the legal killing of unborn children.
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Terry Jones’ Lethal Recklessness

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A person bears moral responsibility for the foreseeable side effects of his reckless actions.
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Hadith and Apostasy

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The part of the Muslim tradition usually cited in support of killing apostates has been gravely misunderstood.
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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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Marriage and Procreation: The Intrinsic Connection

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There is an intrinsic link between marriage and procreation, but this does not mean that infertile couples cannot really be married.
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What Marriage Has Become

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Marriage is fundamentally a pre-political institution.
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Democracy, Foreign Policy, and American Values

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America has an obligation to look after its own interests.
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On Aristotle’s Wide Applicability

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Aristotelian virtue ethics has very little to say about what is a good political structure or economic system.
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Defending Alasdair MacIntyre’s Economics

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Alasdair MacIntyre may be wrong about the details of finance, but he is right on the largest questions of political economy.
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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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The Progressive Case for Conscience Protection

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Have progressives abandoned the liberty of conscience?
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