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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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Does Marriage, or Anything, Have Essential Properties?

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A reply to Northwestern Law Professor Andrew Koppelman's second critique of "What is Marriage?"
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The Fatal Position

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A new, supposedly objective book on the abortion debate relentlessly tips the scale against life.
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The Useless University

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The ancient tradition of pursuing knowledge for its own sake is slowly, quietly making a comeback.
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Incest and the Degradation of Our Vocabulary

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What’s wrong with a prominent professor’s incestuous relationship with his daughter.
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Designer Genes

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One scientist’s flawed argument for flawless humans.
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Marriage: No Avoiding the Central Question

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A reply to NYU Law Professor Kenji Yoshino’s second critique of “What is Marriage?”
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Marriage: Real Bodily Union

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A response to FamilyScholars Blogger Barry Deutsch.
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Marriage: Merely a Social Construct?

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A response to Northwestern Law Professor Andrew Koppelman.
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Christmas and Western Civilization

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Though Christmas is a religious holiday, secularists should appreciate its great contribution to Western Civilization: the lesson that all men are equal in their fundamental human dignity.
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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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Polyamory in the 21st Century

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A book on the polyamorous community by a “participant observer” provides a window into a weird, confused, and growing world.
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Socialism and Solidarity

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It is at our own peril that we ignore the nexus between moral convictions, the institutions in which they are realized, and our economic culture.
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Arsenic and the Meaning of Life

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The problem with reductionist accounts of life.
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William Brennan and the Creation of a Right to Abortion

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One man’s biography becomes the story of jurisprudence when constitutional interpretation is governed by personality and politics.
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The Moral Frontiers of Stem Cell Research

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Though recent progress in induced pluripotent stem-cell research may reduce reliance on embryonic stem cells, it is no moral panacea.
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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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Illegal Immigration and the Rule of Law

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Laws regulating immigration are analogous to those requiring the payment of taxes or the licensing of physicians. Granting amnesty to illegal immigrants is not in itself unjust, but it may be imprudent.
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Just the Facts, Ma’am

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When a woman claims to be a man, should the university and the press play along?
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The Shock of Recognition

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Newly defined and vigorously enforced rights have proliferated even as they are uprooted from any philosophic grounding.
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Pro-Lifers and “Repeal and Replace”

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We need a healthcare law that is not only pro-life but that also addresses our healthcare system’s persistent problems and looming challenges.
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No Such Thing as a “Muslim World”

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In Jakarta President Obama spoke astutely about Muslims, but he engaged in dangerous obfuscation regarding al-Qaeda.
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Constitutional Illusions

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A new book by Hadley Arkes draws attention to the contradictions and ambiguities of the republic’s jurisprudence.
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