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Trust-Busting and Trusting in the Administrative State

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The Obama administration’s efforts to regulate the cellular-phone service market through a decades-old trust-busting ideology is at odds with the courts’ more recent “new learning” approach to market competition. And there are lessons here for pro-lifers.
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A Life of Passion: Progressive Eugenics and Planned Parenthood

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A new biography of Margaret Sanger fails to confront the Planned Parenthood founder’s ideological commitment to eugenics and population control.
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George McGovern’s Book of Un-Reckoning

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In his new book, George McGovern refuses to acknowledge his role in fusing a Democratic coalition of lifestyle liberals and the public costs this has entailed.
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Advocating Same-Sex Marriage: Consistency Is Another Victim

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If tradition is not a good reason to limit marriage to a man and a woman, it is also not a good reason to limit it to only two people.
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Conservatives and Social Justice

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Conservatives shouldn’t ignore or attack social justice, but must articulate sound principles of social justice.
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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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Post-Kinsey: Is There Anything Normal About Pornography?

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An “adaptationist” approach to pornography is dangerous because it ignores widespread research showing that pornography harms society at many levels.
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A Bully-Free World?

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New Jersey’s new anti-bullying legislation is misguided and unrealistic, seeking to eliminate conflict rather than resolve it.
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Flogging: The Best Hope for Our Broken Prison System?

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A new book argues that flogging may be a more humane, efficient, and just punishment than incarceration.
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Contracepting Conscience

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The new, pro-contraceptive recommendations by the Institute of Medicine endanger the health and well-being of women.
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The Two-Biological-Parent Family and Economic Prosperity: What’s Gone Wrong

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Research shows the positive economic effect of two-biological-parent families on our society. Single parenthood and other alternative family structures not only hurt our economy, they hurt our children, those who care for them, and those for whom our children will care later in life. The first in a two-part series.
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Same-Sex Marriage and Human Fulfillment

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Public recognition of unions contrary to human flourishing will hurt, not help, the happiness of those who participate in them.
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Political Responsibility and Exceptionless Moral Norms

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What exceptionless moral norms are we willing to discard for the sake of a good cause?
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When Speaking Falsely is Right

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All lying is immoral, but not all false utterances are lies.
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Why Lying is Always Wrong

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Lying, even for laudable reasons, is wrong.
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Health, Safety, and Morals

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Whether the case involves pornography or genocide, there are times when authorities must intervene to protect human interests.
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Kant the Bogey Man

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Kant was right: we need principles to guide our judgments.
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The Argument Against Gay Marriage: And Why it Doesn’t Fail

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A response to NYU Law Professor Kenji Yoshino.
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The Ambitions of Natural Law Ethics: A Reply to Arkes

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What's unnatural about the Kantian take on natural law.
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The Particular Appeal of Universal Principles

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Responding to a review of his most recent book, Hadley Arkes asks some questions about the nature of natural law.
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The Gulf Oil Spill and Eco-nomics

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Are market economies friends or foes of the environment?
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Is Divorce Good for America’s Women?

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An article by sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox raises the question of how divorce hurts and helps women.
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Higher Education and the Political Regime

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All education is moral education, because it carries an understanding of the things worth knowing—and a hierarchy of the things more or less worthy of being known. Moral education must also point to a certain end: an understanding of the ways of life that are better or worse for human beings. It must point to a certain kind of political regime in providing the cast of our lives: the laws that protect the integrity of families and the professions, and the terms of principle on which a decent people deserve to live. The following article is adapted from the Commencement Address Arkes delivered at Hillsdale College on May 10, 2009.
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