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Perry, Prayer, and Politics

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Rick Perry’s prayer rally engendered accusations that he wrongly crossed the church-state divide. But great leaders in American history have long held that religion is a necessary basis for public morality.
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Pornography and National Security

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The frequency with which terrorists are found with pornography raises important questions about the possible effects of pornography on our national security.
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The Balanced Budget Amendment: What Would Hamilton Say?

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The balanced budget amendment would rob the federal government of an essential power.
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Republican and Classically Conservative in 2012

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An important book from the 1980s can teach today’s Republican presidential candidates the importance of classical conservatism.
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The Debt Ceiling and the Constitution

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The attempts by both the right and the left to politicize our Constitution must be firmly rejected for the sake of our nation’s health and prosperity.
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John Locke and the Inadequacies of Social Contract Theory

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John Locke is an illustration of how social contract theory distorts sound political reasoning.
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One Man, One Woman, and the Common Good: Marriage’s Public Purpose

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The state should uphold the Defense of Marriage Act, because the state’s interest in marriage is fundamentally about public, not private, purposes for marriage. Adapted from testimony delivered before the United States Senate.
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Philosophy, Marriage, and Moral Grandstanding

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In a discipline whose point is dispassionate reasoning and discourse, some would shut down debate and silence dissenters on a deep and complex moral-political issue. And the view they would anathematize, far from irrational, is more coherent and more compelling than their slippery and ill-defined 'default'.
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The Two-Biological-Parent Family and Economic Prosperity: Where to Go From Here

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Five suggestions for how our nation can regain a healthy marriage culture and the economic prosperity and personal flourishing that comes with it. The second in a two-part series.
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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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Employment and Social Justice

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When we debate problems of social justice, we must keep our shared principles separate from the means we advocate to recognize them. Failure to do so produces unfruitful discourse and misdirected charges.
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A Realist Philosophical Case For Urbanism and Against Sprawl: Part Two

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Arguments for traditional urbanism are de facto truth claims about nature and human nature, and point to and are supported by the natural law. Why we can and should think normatively about our building patterns. Part two of two.
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Is Sex Just Like Race?

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Race and sex play qualitatively different roles in our interactions with each other, making sex rationally relevant to our social and political policies in a way that race is not.
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Islam Will Find Its Own Way to Freedom

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With extremism losing momentum, there is hope that the Muslim Middle East is beginning once again to embrace the liberalism of early 20th-century Islam.
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Sexual Revolution: Built Upon Sand

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The body has a language of its own, and the sexual revolution is founded upon a lie.
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The Family: What Is to Be Done?

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Marital love implies dependence on another instead of autonomy, and it shows that certain goods (sex and procreation, love and marriage, marriage and parenthood) are connected. We must recover the language of self-giving. The second in a two-part series.
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The Family’s End

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The logic of contract and the movement to conquer nature have resulted in the triumph of autonomy and demise of the family. The first of a two-part series.
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Who’s Afraid of Metaphysics?

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Metaphysics provides the crucial foundation for natural law, and our current intellectual climate is ripe for embracing metaphysical foundations once again. The third in a three-part series.
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What Does it Mean to be a ‘Political Animal’?

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A notion of “social practice” should guide the way we think about morality and politics. The first in a three-part series.
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From Heels to Wheels: American Zoning Laws and the End of Western Public Space

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Zoning codes used to favor settlement patterns scaled for human beings. No longer.
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War and Moral Sanity: Nuclear Attacks

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An exploration of how war affects people, and what it does to their natural moral instincts. The second in a two-part series.
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God and Democratic Diplomacy

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We can no longer afford to hang on to secularization theories as we design policy for nations from Libya to Egypt, Iran to Pakistan, Nigeria to Indonesia, and the numerous other societies being reshaped by the partisans of God in the 21st century. The second in a three-part series.
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God and Political Science

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The view of global politics taught by political scientists is the poorest possible preparation for the era of global politics in which we now live. As we address central geopolitical challenges, we must delve into the details of religion and religious actors. The first in a three-part series.
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Dismal Science Redeemed: Where to Go from Here

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How and why considering distribution will yield a complete economic science. The second in a two-part series.
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