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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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Why America Needs Social Conservatism

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An America without social conservatism would be stripped of its conservative enlightenment roots and go the way of Europe via entitlements and centralized economic regulation.
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A Few Make a Rare Few Rarer: Reflections on World Down Syndrome Day

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Unless regulations and laws are changed, there will be fewer people with Down syndrome to celebrate on future World Down Syndrome Days, making this year the high water mark of lives with Down syndrome.
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After-Birth Abortion Still Kills People

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Whether we call it infanticide or after-birth abortion, ending the life of newborns kills human beings who are moral persons because they are rational beings.
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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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What Marriage Means in Today’s “New Normal”

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A detailed look at how working-class adults view marriage and the search for marital love.
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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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Form and Transcendence: A Reply to Micah Mattix

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The authentic story of modernism is not one of continuity and emulation, but of violent rupture and hostility to tradition. Art should be oriented toward beauty.
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Reproductive Technologies and the Quest for Immortality

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The fertility industry is booming because we desire genetic and memetic immortality—the preservation and reproduction of our bodies and ways of life.
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Equality versus Freedom?

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Lawmakers must look past the “equality versus religious freedom” standoff, and consider the substantive merits of each particular case.
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The Paradise of Sexual Revolution

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The sexual revolution puts forth a vision of paradise in which we rig up some nifty devices to guarantee infertility, consider neither holiness nor virtue, and believe in the blessings of no one and nowhere and nothing.
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Is Free Verse Immoral?

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Free verse does not simply express a “debased” yearning for freedom from tradition. Like earlier forms of metered poetry, it too expresses the trials of confining human thought to written language.
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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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Eudaimonism and Moral Absolutes

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A eudaimonistic ethical theory can show, without appeal to God, that certain actions are always wrong.
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To Teach and Delight

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Poetry establishes the polis, the ordered community, because poetry teaches men their “actual desires,” the desires that must be accommodated in any lasting and beneficial order. The second in a two-part series.
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The Meaning of Modernism

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Modernist poetry embodies the philosophical perspective of late liberal Western society, giving form to the conception of freedom divorced from essence, the theoretical primacy of the individual, and the broad skepticism towards any notion of a rational human nature. The first in a two-part series.
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Hosanna in the Highest!

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In a recent decision, the Supreme Court has held that the First Amendment provides additional and independent rights to religious organizations, beyond those to which non-religious groups are entitled.
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Religion and Freedom

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Threats to religious freedom endanger the health of religious institutions, enfeebling rather than enlivening the moral content of our culture—a content that we all, believers and non-believers alike, rely upon to exercise our freedom.
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Gingrich, Desegregation, and Judicial Supremacy

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Those who oppose judicial supremacy follow in the footsteps of Abraham Lincoln himself.
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Advocating Same-Sex Marriage: Consistency Is Another Victim

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If tradition is not a good reason to limit marriage to a man and a woman, it is also not a good reason to limit it to only two people.
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Profiling and the Constitution

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Though racial and religious profiling offends our better feelings, it is nevertheless constitutional.
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God and Moral Absolutes

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If appeals to God get ruled out, either by disbelief in his existence or reluctance to rely upon it, then it isn’t possible to demonstrate that there are moral absolutes.
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Contemporary Family Law: Divorcing Marriage from Children

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Family law has changed during the past 50 years to the detriment of child well-being, paving the way for the arguments in support of same-sex marriage. But there is a new strategy available to us to respond to this situation. The second in a two-part series.
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Traditional Family Law: Connecting Marriage with Children

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The Supreme Court was more right than it knew during the past two centuries as it identified the state’s interest in marriage as children and their formation. The first in a two-part series.
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