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On the Bipartisan Inadequacy of Governing Elites: A General Theory of Trump’s Victory

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A bipartisan record of inadequacy by governing elites incapable of admitting their failures led to the election of Donald Trump. Thankfully, America is vast, diverse, and free enough to give itself a new governing elite if the old one can’t learn.

Checking the Court: What Can Be Done to Rein in the Supreme Court?

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Michael Stokes Paulsen has identified six courses of action that might effectively curb the Supreme Court’s abuse of judicial authority.

The Liberalism of the Founding Fathers Is Not to Blame for Our Current Problems

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If today we see ill effects of individualism, it does not mean that we should blame them on the founders. Our problem is a cultural one, not some deep, all-encompassing flaw in our political system.

Giving Thanks for Eight Years of Public Discourse

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This Thanksgiving season, Public Discourse will continue to commit itself to the peaceful and rational persuasion of our fellow man in the cause of the common good. Will you join us?

The Decline of Movement Conservatism and the Rise of the Alt-Right

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Donald Trump’s election has made one thing clear: right-wing politics, conservatism, and the Republican Party are not interchangeable.

The Promise and Peril of Making America Great: On Trumpism and Hamiltonianism

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Donald Trump’s approach to politics has real roots in American political history. Yet, as Alexander Hamilton warned, it is very dangerous to undermine a democratic people’s confidence in their own governing classes.

Tea Party Elegy

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Our Constitution alone will not be adequate protection if we allow the left to sweep through our mainstream culture and our institutions.

The Double Mommy Trap: Two Mothers and No Rights for Junior

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The double maternity two-step is a forced march. The intended destination seems to be greater personal fulfillment for adults. But if we arrive there, what will be left of the rights of children?

Unmasking Liberalism

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A new book reveals the crumbling foundations of the myth of liberalism and urges the challenging task of rehabilitating virtue.

Markets, Catholicism, and Libertarianism

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Supporting markets as the economic arrangements most likely to help promote human flourishing doesn’t necessarily mean you accept libertarian philosophical premises.

Calling All Electors: Throw the Election to the House, and You Just Might Save Our Country

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The Electoral College was conceived for just the kind of national leadership crisis we now face.

2016 and the Future of the Supreme Court

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What would happen if a justice with the judicial philosophy and record of Justice Ginsburg were to replace Justice Scalia on the Court?

The Future of Pro-Life Legislation and Litigation

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In her landmark 1971 paper, Judith Jarvis Thomson tried to defend abortion by appeal to norms of justification consistently applicable in a range of other cases. By contrast, the courts in and after Roe and Casey have treated the right to abortion as an unquestionable legal principle. This inverted approach is doomed to fail as it continues to reveal the anomalous character of abortion rights.

Betrayed by Our Leaders: A Young Conservative Responds to Endorsements of Donald Trump

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The leaders of organizations that have shaped a generation of young conservatives are now endorsing Donald Trump, a man who is the antithesis of the values held by each of these institutions.

How Christianity Created the Free Society

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While many Christians have undermined human liberty, a new book of essays shows just how much of our contemporary freedom we owe to the Christian church, Christian thinkers, and Christian practice rather than liberals and liberalism.

SOGI Laws: A Subversive Response to a Nonexistent Problem

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Now is not the time for proponents of religious freedom to partner with proponents of sexual orientation and gender identity legislation in hopes of catching a few crumbs of liberty that fall from the table.

Poetic Naturalism and the Way Things Are

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Sean Carroll’s new book, The Big Picture, proposes an apparent middle ground between an exclusively materialist account of reality and one that includes non-physical components.

Same-Sex Marriage vs. the Real Thing: A Gay Man’s View of the Big Picture

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We are engaged in an epic spiritual battle.

The Promise and Peril of Conservative Principles

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The failure of movement conservatism to connect principles to policies that speak to current challenges has rendered it increasingly irrelevant to most Americans—and even to most Republicans.

The Best of Both Judicial Worlds: Why State Justices Are Not Enough

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When picking a Supreme Court justice, the next Republican president should look to federal appellate judges who have also served on a state supreme court.

Mother Teresa’s 1994 Message to the Supreme Court on Abortion

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Mother Teresa of Calcutta was canonized yesterday by Pope Francis. In 1994, she submitted an amicus brief, filed by her counsel Robert P. George, pleading with the United States Supreme Court to reverse its decision in Roe v. Wade. The text of her brief appears below.

The Trouble with Solidarity

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Calls to unify the fractured Republican Party and reach out to disillusioned Trump voters will never succeed without a comprehensive vision for the future.

Dissent Will Not Be Tolerated: What the Case of a Wyoming Judge Means for All of Us

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When judges are prohibited from speaking publicly about their most deeply held convictions, how long will it be before everyone is?

Restoring the Political-Moral Center

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Politicians should return to the common-denominator universal ethical values embraced by Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
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