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Is Originalism Dead?

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In his latest book, law professor David A. Strauss attacks the idea of originalism and champions the “living Constitution.” Matt Franck explains why he’s wrong.
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Tea Party Metaphysics: Where Do We Go From Here?

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Social conservatives must understand and embrace America’s traditional economic culture before they can contribute to its renewal. Economic conservatives must expel the infection of shallow anthropology, vulgar utilitarianism, and metaphysical blindness that they picked up from progressivism in the 20th century.
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Tea Party Metaphysics: Economics and First Principles

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The Tea Party taps into the full social and cultural power of transcendent moral appeals in a way that social conservatives have never been able to do. The first in a two-part series.
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Elitism and Judicial Supremacy

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Faced with an increasingly democratic political system, American elites have turned to the courts as an alternate means of enacting their political and constitutional agenda.
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Religion, Journalism, and the New American Orthodoxy

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In an address delivered today before the Religion Newswriters Association, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Denver commended America's journalists of religion and challenged them to approach their important work with integrity, fairness, and humility.
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Distracted by the Mosque

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The controversy over the so-called “Ground Zero mosque” cannot be understood apart from the history of other communities and their struggles to overcome religious intolerance. And no one should exploit such fears for quick partisan gain.
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Fiat Money and Public Debt

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The government’s ability to print money at will is a nearly unquestioned feature of today’s economic order, but recent crises have highlighted its hazards.
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Stephen Hawking’s Creation Confusion

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Scientists have begun to doubt whether there was a “Big Bang.” But in claiming that this disproves the existence of a Creator, they confuse temporal beginnings with origins.
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American Empire for Liberty

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We shouldn’t worry about America becoming an empire—a new book explains that it has been one for a long, long time.
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The Abiding Significance of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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Americans must still wrestle with what it means to take the lives of innocent civilians intentionally.
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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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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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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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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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The New Maritainians

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Can Thomistic art theory provide an alternative to postmodern “Neutralism”?
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Arizona, Congress, and the Immigration Mess

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Illegal immigration is a national problem, but Arizona’s solution is not the answer. We need to secure our borders, allow a more generous pathway to citizenship, and create a guest worker program.
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Morality, Rationality, and Natural Law

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We should prefer natural law thinking to utilitarianism -- here's why.
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Health Care Reform, Progressivism and ‘Making History’

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The claim that health care reform “made history” highlights how fully the political debate hinges on ideas of progress.
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Putting Ethics Back Together Again: A British Perspective

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Much of our moral confusion comes from our failure to find a replacement for the Judaeo-Christian outlook that once animated the West. We need, and generally now lack, a philosophical understanding of human life.
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Beauty as a Conservative Birthright?

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A recent series by James Matthew Wilson highlights the connection between conservatism and beauty.
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Beyond Sovereignty: Money and its Future

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Is it time to consider internationalizing or privatizing our money supply?
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