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International Religious Freedom Policy and American National Security

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The Obama administration has failed to advance the cause of international religious liberty, and that failure has endangered American national security. But there are concrete steps Congress can take to improve implementation of the International Religious Freedom Act. Adapted from testimony delivered before the National Security Sub-Committee of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, September 18, 2014.
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Jewish Praise of Truett Cathy: Chick-fil-A Founder and Sabbath Observer

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In a society in which the profit motive tends to make all other interests subordinate to the almighty dollar, Chick-fil-A’s founder declared that the store would not be open on the Sabbath.
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Scientific Education: Do We Love Our Children?

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To love our children well, we must equip them with a strong education in the sciences as well as the liberal arts.
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Happiness at Yale

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College students, like everyone else, want to be happy. Educators should help them ground this desire for happiness in acts of virtue.
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A Tale of Two Fathers: Silas Marner on the True Meaning of Fatherhood

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At a time when many children grow up without the love of their biological father, the sacrificial love of the men who willingly fill that void demands recognition.
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The Illusion of Neutrality

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The secular state cannot be neutral in matters of religion.
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Hooking Up, Shacking Up, and Saying “I Do”

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Despite the lack of cultural support for positive practices that help couples toward healthy marriage relationships, the good news is that individuals have control over their relationship choices.
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Sexual Assault and College Practices

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To effect a real change in behavior, colleges must not only change the messages they send—they must establish new patterns for college life.
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Naked Consent: Why Personal Speech Codes Won’t Curb a Social Problem Like Sexual Assault

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Speech codes won’t fix what ails a relationship marketplace that aggravates—rather than relieves—the risk of sexual violence. California’s proposed law will simply multiply accusations, legal proceedings, and judicial headaches.
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Prudence and Moral Absolutes

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Refusing to make exceptions to absolute moral norms is not unrealistic, imprudent, or inhumane. The purpose of norms is to promote human flourishing and protect what is good
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The Global Citizen without a Country?

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Today’s global citizenship movement emphasizes human rights disconnected from the history of any particular nation and without a clear conception of human nature.
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The Renaissance of Hope: Dissidence, the Polish Church, and the End of Communism

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The totalitarian temptation can never be entirely overcome, and there is always a possibility that barbarism will return. Thus, we must ceaselessly strive to pursue love, dignity, and freedom.
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What Reason Can Know and What Government Should Legislate: A Rejoinder to Arkes

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The existence of objective moral truth that is knowable by reason does not imply that people generally, much less particular public officials, will in fact know and embrace that truth. Very often, they won’t, and that is why systematic limits on government power, such as the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, are good laws.
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Judging Beliefs and Shaping Laws: A Reply to Robert Miller

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Legislators and judges not only can but must gauge the moral justification of every law.
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Driving to Nebraska: Cinema, Human Dignity, and the Elderly

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At times, cinema succeeds where philosophy fails. Films like Nebraska show us the importance of honoring our elderly parents and remind us of the unique dignity of every human person.
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Professor Arkes and the Law

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When the law limits the courts’ power to inquire into the truth or reasonableness of religious views, this is not because the law is assuming that religious beliefs lack rational foundation. Rather, it’s because allowing courts to exercise this power on a large scale would be too dangerous.
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Journey to Baby Gammy: How We Justify a Market in Children

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Materialism, relativism, and consequentialism are at the heart of the arguments in favor of third-party reproduction.
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Scholastic Metaphysics: Edward Feser’s Introduction

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Edward Feser’s latest book gives readers who are familiar with analytic philosophy an excellent overview of scholastic metaphysics in the tradition of Thomas Aquinas.
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Traditional Religion in Space

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Traditional religion, with its reliance on an authoritarian God, its understanding of humans as sinners, and its grounding in particular times and places, provides the only stable foundation for affirming the sanctity of human life and enabling human flourishing in new cosmic situations.
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The Pleasures of Prudence: How Over-Regulation Hurts Doctors, Teachers, and All Workers

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Workers must have the freedom to develop real expertise and to exercise this rational mastery in pursuit of good ends. Only in the pleasures of prudence can we truly realize those excellences of which human beings are capable.
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Obamacare: Text and Intention

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Confronted with its legislative weaknesses, defenders of Obamacare are appealing to the law’s intent instead of its text. This is a dangerous approach that the founders clearly rejected.
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Tracking Christian Sexual Morality in a Same-Sex Marriage Future

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Churchgoing Christians who support same-sex marriage are more likely to think pornography, cohabitation, hook-ups, adultery, polyamory, and abortion are acceptable. And it’s reasonable to expect continued change in more permissive directions.
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The Santa Barbara Killings: When Envy Becomes the Deadliest Sin

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The writings and videos of mass murderer Eliot Rodger reveal a young man eaten up by envy and demonstrate the reality of evil.
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