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To Whom Do Children Belong? A Defense of Parental Authority

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Parents have unique authority over their children because they bear non-transferable obligations toward their children. The state must respect the right of parents to fulfill their duties toward their children. The second in a two-part series.
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To Whom Do Children Belong? How Same-Sex Marriage Threatens Parental Rights

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Same-sex marriage further encourages the state to encroach on the domain of that indispensable pre-political community, the family. The first in a two-part series.
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Contra Mundum Pro Mundo: A Review of The Colson Way

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A new book captures the heart of Chuck Colson’s message: love your country, but love your God more.
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Joys, Struggles, and Scare Tactics: On Down Syndrome and Abortion

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It’s tempting to make neat calculations based on what we know in the abstract about Down syndrome. But once an actual child enters into the equation—with all of his strengths and foibles, quirks and habits—we don’t get the answer we expected at all.
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Donald Trump, George Will, and the Crisis of American Conservatism

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You can’t beat a flawed moral vision with no moral vision. This is not idealism but hard political reality.
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The Social Injustice Done to Adjunct Faculty: A Call to Arms

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The time has come. If senior faculty members don’t force the issue of justice for adjuncts, no one else will.
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What Science Doesn’t Know

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Perhaps it isn’t ignorance that keeps ordinary, non-scientific Americans from accepting what scientists tell them; perhaps it’s their knowledge of and experience with realities which they rightfully judge to be more important than the objects accessible to modern science.
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Doing Injustice to the Just Price

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An article in the Journal of Clinical Oncology on the just price of cancer drugs in the United States contains an odd reference to a nonexistent book by Aristotle. Unraveling the origins of this error reveals an almost farcical series of misinterpretations.
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The Practical Wisdom of Chief Justice Ellsworth: Reconsidering the Separation of Church and State

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If good morals are essential for a free republic to endure, and if a certain group of institutions successfully promote those morals, then it follows that a well-governed state may be friendly to those institutions—even if they are churches.
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Sustainability’s War on Doubt

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Sustainability encompasses not only a particularly aggressive form of environmentalism, but also a strong attack on market capitalism and a progressive vision of social justice.
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Don’t Use My Pain as a Weapon: Infertility and Same-Sex Marriage

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Infertility does not invalidate our marriage, but we constantly experience infertility as an inability to fulfill a basic aspect of marriage. It is a loss for us in a way that it can never be for a same-sex couple. Our relationship is ordered toward having children, even though it is frustrated and kept from this fulfillment.
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Public School LGBT Programs Don’t Just Trample Parental Rights. They Also Put Kids at Risk.

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No matter what well-intentioned teachers and administrators believe, LGBT acceptance programs designed by GLSEN and funded by the CDC are designed to encourage kids to question their gender identity and sexual orientation.
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Don’t Let Rhetoric Overwhelm Reason: A Response to David Bentley Hart

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If David Bentley Hart wants his arguments to be persuasive, he should offer a reasoned critique of the actual arguments of his opponents rather than continue to indulge what he admits is an “emotional” aversion to Thomism.
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What Creative Fiction Can (and Cannot) Do

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To engage and shape the culture, we must understand the power of storytelling—and respect its limits.
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Religious Freedom and Sexual Identity: A Proposal for Peace

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If law can declare certain reasons for a private business owner to refuse service—such as sexual orientation—invalid, then it can also designate other reasons as valid—such as religious convictions about the nature of marriage.
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Gender-Diverse Marriage Laws Do Not Infringe the Liberty of Gay and Lesbian Americans

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According to a recent amicus brief by scholars of liberty, same-sex marriage is not only counter to the Supreme Court’s long line of personal liberty cases, it may even be prohibited by them.
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Wolf Hall: Tudor History through an Anti-Historical, Anti-Catholic Lens

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Anti-Catholic animus or simple error disguised as history or art will not advance our understanding of a complex and divided period of conflict.
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David Bentley Hart Jumps the Shark: Why Animals Don’t Go to Heaven

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Thomists don’t believe that animals go to heaven, but not for the reasons that David Bentley Hart seems to think. Unlike human beings, non-human animals are entirely corporeal creatures—all matter and no spirit.
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The Paradox of Title IX: Fighting Sexual Assault on Campus

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In the fight against sexual assault on campus, Title IX is not so much powerful as it is pliable, subject to the competency of school officials and the potential for untruthfulness in either the accuser or the accused.
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Nature vs. Synthetics: What’s at Stake in the Dolce and Gabbana Controversy

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Dolce and Gabbana, whether they use the term or not, are strong advocates of natural law.
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True Paradox: Breaking Down the Barriers to Faith

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Christianity hasn’t been considered and found untenable. It’s presumed unreasonable and left unconsidered.
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Islam and the “Islamic State”: What Does the Quran Really Teach about Christianity?

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True Islam condemns the violence of the so-called “Islamic State.” Christians and Muslims must work together to achieve peace and justice.
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Hooked Up and Tied Down: The Neurological Consequences of Sadomasochism

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Neurons that fire together wire together. BDSM causes the neural networks controlling sexual arousal, aggression, and fear to become dangerously intertwined. An examination of the phenomenon of BDSM from the perspective of a psychiatrist.
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New Research on Same-Sex Households Reveals Kids Do Best With Mom and Dad

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Published research employing the New Family Structures Study (NFSS), the ECLS (Early Childhood Longitudinal Study), the US Census (ACS), the Canadian Census, and now the NHIS all reveal a comparable basic narrative, namely, that children who grow up with a married mother and father fare best.
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