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The Occupy Movement’s Vacuous Critique of Inequality

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The Occupy Movement should be an occasion for the American left to rethink its own moral crusades, which turn out to be morally corrosive and hence incompatible with any serious commitment to social justice.
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Libertarianism: Not So Wrong, After All! A Reply to Nathan Schlueter

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Libertarianism offers the best defense of individual rights that government can employ.
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Pepsi, Proxies, and Pro-Life Respect for the Rule of (Corporate) Law

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Social activists opposed to the use of HEK-293—a kidney cell line derived from an aborted baby—in PepsiCo products should not respond with shareholder activism, because it wreaks political and economic havoc.
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A Guiding Principle Revealed

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The state should never force anyone to perform an action he or she believes to be wrong, unless it has a good reason, not merely to have the action performed, but to insist that even those who find it wrong perform it.
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Conservatism or Liberty?

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Conservatism is misguided, arbitrary, inconsistent, and ultimately inimical to liberty and human flourishing. Libertarianism allows for human flourishing and harmony from respect and cooperation.
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Vanderbilt’s Right to Despise Christianity

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Vanderbilt University has decided that campus student religious groups may not require that their leaders accept the core beliefs of the religious group they would lead. Ironically, Vanderbilt’s right to do so rests on the same freedom it denies to these groups—a group’s freedom to define what it stands for and the views it expresses.
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Grave Evil and Political Responsibility

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Morally responsible, prudent voting seeks to defend the common good to the extent realistically possible, even if that means only preventing further damage to an already highly degraded culture.
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A Tale of Two Sex Hormones

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Artificial testosterone and estrogen use harms both individuals and society.
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Landscapes of Nothingness

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The fundamental question of why there is something rather than nothing is a metaphysical and theological question—and with respect to such a question the natural sciences necessarily have nothing to say.
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Obama’s Contraception Cram-down: The Pork Precedent

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An ancient example of resistance to a tyrant’s attempt to coerce violations of religious conscience provides an interesting perspective on resistance to the Obama administration’s recent healthcare coverage mandate.
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Justice Kennedy, Abortion, and Same-Sex Marriage

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If marriage is to be preserved in the present struggle, our task is to sort through the influential kinds of arguments about same-sex marriage and abortion that have been introduced by Justice Kennedy.
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President Obama, the Right Not to Do Wrong, and the Politics of Ruse and Delay

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No one can be rightly coerced by the state to be directly complicit in the commission of a wrong. This goes for any businessman, employer, insurance company, or individual, regardless of faith.
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Tax Romney, not Corporations

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It’s time to end the corporate income tax: it strains job-creating businesses, punishes workers rather than capital owners, encourages wealthy companies to find loopholes in the tax system, and allows some of the richest among us to pay strangely low personal income tax rates.
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The Importance of Dignity: A Reply to Steven Pinker

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From its ancient Stoic origins to its modern Kantian formulations, human dignity is an important concept for sound ethical thinking. We must distinguish dignity as attributed, dignity as intrinsic worth, and dignity as flourishing.
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Disability: A Thread for Weaving Joy

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While some people resent the imperfection, the inconvenience, and the expense of persons with disabilities, others see in them an invitation to learn how to love deeply without counting the cost. God will demand an accounting. Adapted from remarks delivered at the Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life.
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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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No Intentional Killing of the Innocent: A Response to Miscamble and O’Brien

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The absolute prohibition of intrinsically evil acts is the limit on one’s positive obligations.
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Monetary Possibilities for a Post-Euro Europe

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The eurozone’s current crisis is an opportunity for Europe to explore new monetary options that challenge the hitherto dominant vision of the European Union’s economic future.
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The Most Controversial Decision: Challenging Pro-Life Witness

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The tradition of common morality does not permit us to excuse the atomic bomb as a “necessary” evil.
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Against the Architects of Empire

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Contemporary architecture is profoundly anti-natural.
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Protest and Reason

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In order to stop our present decline, we must transcend our natural tendency to retreat into factions and instead begin to sacrifice for the common good.
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Mandating Our Religious Freedom

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People of faith must reclaim their religious freedom, granted by the Creator and protected by the Constitution.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Government Worker

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The conditions that inspired "The Scarlet Letter" highlight the gap between public employment and civic motives.
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The Reckless, Profitable Elimination of Down Syndrome

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A new Down syndrome test raises important questions.
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