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Giving Judges the Boot

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Attempts to promote judicial restraint have failed to rein in a judiciary run amok. Is it time to consider more drastic measures?
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Same-Sex Marriage and the Assault on Moral Reasoning

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Even same-sex marriage advocates should recognize the bad logic in the ruling overturning Proposition 8.
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The New Path to Pro-Life Health Care Reform

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In order to protect the unborn, we need to recognize mistakes made in the past and work to remedy them in the present.
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A Concluding Argument about Abortion in Health Care

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Arguments have been aired. The facts are in. It’s time for all pro-lifers to acknowledge the shortcomings of the new health care bill.
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Small Steps Toward Justice

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A Review of Clark Forsythe’s Politics for the Greatest Good
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Conservative Folly on the High Court

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In a series of recent cases, the Supreme Court’s conservative justices have abandoned judicial restraint.
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The Gold Standard: A Principled Case

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In charting our future monetary policies, we should remember the trade-offs of competing alternatives.
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Marriage and the Reign of Judges

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The latest decision from our judicial overlords on same-sex marriage spells trouble for republican constitutionalism and the institution of marriage.
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Elena Kagan’s Living Constitution

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Kagan’s advocacy for a living constitution should kill her Supreme Court chances.
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How the New Health Care Law Endangers Conscience

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The new health care law has endangered longstanding protections on conscience. We must act to address them or risk creating a dangerous precedent.
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Health Care, Abortion, and the Call of Conscience

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Under the new health-care law, pro-lifers may have to accept inferior health plans, rather than wrongly pay into abortion providing ones.
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Fatal Attraction: Democracy and the Welfare State

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Expansive and expensive welfare programs have brought European social democracies to the verge of catastrophe. Now the dynamics of democracy may be an impediment to economic reform.
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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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Conservatives, Abortion, and Contraception

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More on the red-state blue-state abortion debate: a response to Koppelman, Carbone, and Cahn
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Toward a Renewed Culture of Building

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An adapted commencement address arguing that traditional building provides us with a durable and beautiful built environment, which in turn provides the best physical and spatial context for the inventiveness and daring that modern life demands.
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Politics and Principle

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The recent actions of New Jersey governor Chris Christie have stirred up a political storm, but they are a reminder of the principles that underlie our politics.
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The Dangerous Vacuity of Our Public Discourse

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Our failure to engage in substantive political debate can tempt us to write our opponents out of the political community.
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Remembering the Pill

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The fiftieth anniversary of oral contraceptives is a reminder of all the things the Pill lets us forget.
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Europe’s Monetary Sins

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The bailout of Greece is a stunning about-face that calls into question Europe’s commitment to a stable currency.
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Interracial Marriage and Same-Sex Marriage

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Why the analogy fails.
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On Markets and Morals: The SEC, Apple, and Internet Pornography

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The recent SEC scandal reminds us of the prevalence of pornography. Steve Jobs’ decision to ban pornography on the iPhone might provide a way forward.
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The New Maritainians

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Can Thomistic art theory provide an alternative to postmodern “Neutralism”?
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Liberalism and Higher Education

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Sometimes a defense of shared liberal values can become the partisan promotion of one of liberalism's strands.
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Health Care and the Abandonment of Pro-Life Principle

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In a first-time feature, the editors of Public Discourse respond to the editors of Commonweal.
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