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Health, Safety, and Morals

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Whether the case involves pornography or genocide, there are times when authorities must intervene to protect human interests.
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Does Marriage, or Anything, Have Essential Properties?

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A reply to Northwestern Law Professor Andrew Koppelman's second critique of "What is Marriage?"
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The Useless University

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The ancient tradition of pursuing knowledge for its own sake is slowly, quietly making a comeback.
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Marriage: No Avoiding the Central Question

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A reply to NYU Law Professor Kenji Yoshino’s second critique of “What is Marriage?”
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Marriage: Merely a Social Construct?

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A response to Northwestern Law Professor Andrew Koppelman.
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The Argument Against Gay Marriage: And Why it Doesn’t Fail

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A response to NYU Law Professor Kenji Yoshino.
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The Moral Frontiers of Stem Cell Research

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Though recent progress in induced pluripotent stem-cell research may reduce reliance on embryonic stem cells, it is no moral panacea.
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Just the Facts, Ma’am

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When a woman claims to be a man, should the university and the press play along?
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No Such Thing as a “Muslim World”

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In Jakarta President Obama spoke astutely about Muslims, but he engaged in dangerous obfuscation regarding al-Qaeda.
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Campus Political Correctness and the Costs of Free Speech

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It is difficult to speak up and defend certain unpopular truths on today’s college campuses. But it is also urgently needed and greatly rewarding.
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Arranged: Happily Wholesome in a Brooklyn World

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A recent film follows two women whose shared values offer an unexpected opportunity for friendship.
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Unemployment and the Minimum Wage

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To stimulate job creation, Democrats favor government spending and Republicans favor tax cuts, but is there a more direct way?
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Where in the Constitution is “Separation of Church and State”?

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Misleading talk of "separation of church and state" obscures the true meaning of the First Amendment.
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Pornography and Socially Responsible Investing

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The practice of socially responsible investing, often associated with opposition to apartheid or support for environmental causes, can also be a way to battle the harms of pornography.
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Intellectuals and the Masses

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Intellectuals have failed to recognize the real character of the Tea Party.
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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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Swastikas, Burning Crosses, and “God Hates Fags”

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It’s time for conservatives and liberals alike to remember that certain words by their very utterance inflict injury.
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Times of Clear and Present Danger

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A new book by Gabriel Schoenfeld examines the dangers and difficulties inherent in keeping state secrets.
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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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Same-Sex Marriage and Public Opinion: Spirals, Frames, and the Seinfeld Effect

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Americans appear to accept same-sex marriage more than they really do, perhaps because they believe it to be more widely accepted than it really is.
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Obama’s Illegal Stem-Cell Policy

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Obama’s stem-cell policy is not only contrary to sound reason and good science, it violates the law.
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The Stealth Abortion Pill

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The so-called “week-after pill” is an abortion drug hidden under the guise of contraception.
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How the New Health Care Law Endangers Conscience

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The new health care law has endangered longstanding protections on conscience. We must act to address them or risk creating a dangerous precedent.
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