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What Opponents Can Learn from Assisted Suicide Advocates

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A playbook exists for reversing the slide toward death on demand. It’s time to use Compassion & Choices’ tactics against it.

Republican Voters Are Not “Moving On” From Marriage

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Rank and file Republican activists and voters revere marriage and will act to defend it. GOP candidates should understand that failing to defend marriage can come at a very high price.

Picking a Justice Who Can Resist the Lure of the Liberal Side: Recommendations to the Next Republican President

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In evaluating potential nominees to the Supreme Court, Republican presidents should seriously consider state supreme court justices. Their independence gives a clearer indication of how they would behave if appointed to the high court.

Can the Pope Change Catholic Teaching?

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Some people hope that Pope Francis will change the Church’s teaching on contraception. He won’t. He couldn’t even if he wanted to—as Church history and Scriptures show. Part two of two.

The Historic Christian Teaching Against Contraception: A Defense

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The Catholic Church’s teaching on contraception, common to all Christian denominations for 1900 years, is not arbitrary. It reflects a moral truth. And the Catholic Church can never revise it. Part one of two.

Now Is the Time: Why We Must Refuse to Vote for the Lesser of Two Evils

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Anyone who hopes to see a major shift among the major parties has to ask himself: when am I going to stop voting for them? If not during the year of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, then when?

Why Autonomy Cannot Explain Marriage and Family Life

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Radical autonomy does not capture the webs into which we are born, our experiences of deep neediness and equally deep love, our embodied nature, our reaction to tragedies and unforeseen obstacles, or our response to our children once they arrive. Autonomy resists the dependence at the heart of loving relationships.

Homosexuality and Bad Arguments

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Historically, the modern liberal position has lacked a robust philosophical argument in favor of homosexual activity. A new book by Chris Meyers attempts to provide one.

Reagan vs. Trump on the Constitution, Freedom, and Conservative Statesmanship

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The conservative should not act the ideologue in order to attack the demagogue, because the simplistic thinking of the ideologue is just as hostile to true statesmanship as the angry passions of the demagogue.

Abortion as a Positive Good: How the Abortion Movement Echoes Radical Slavery Rhetoric

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Like John C. Calhoun, who famously embraced slavery as a “positive good,” the abortion movement of 2016 has shifted from seeing abortion as a “necessary evil” to celebrating it as good for women and society.

President Obama’s Sex-Driven War on Science

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President Obama has sacrificed the well-being of our nation’s youth on the altar of ideology.

A Call for Partisan Consistency

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Only when we are willing to hold our own party to the same standards to which we hold the other party will we be able to improve our national politics.

George Washington’s Constitutional Morality

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In the age of Clinton and Trump, we need the principles and ideals that animated America’s first president more than ever.

Dietrich von Hildebrand’s Battle Against Hitler

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Dietrich von Hildebrand’s memoir of resistance against the Nazis compels us to wonder how we would have responded in the face of similar evils. Would we have the courage to speak the truth in love? Or would we sit back silently in fear?

A Vote’s Consequences and a Voter’s Conscience

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Vote as if your ballot determines nothing whatsoever—except the shape of your own character.

Adam Smith, Economic Nationalism, and the Case for Free Trade

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As economic nationalism enjoys a resurgence across the developed world, Adam Smith reminds us of how much we stand to lose—and not just economically.

The Problem with Gender Studies

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If gender studies is to serve as a helpful guide, it must abandon its invented dualisms of sex and gender, nature and nurture, embodiment and social construction. Gender sociologists need to study the way human beings actually live rather than the way they wish we would live.

William Shakespeare and the Socratic-Christian Heritage

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Though he certainly finds fault in distorted versions of Christian ideals, Shakespeare pays tribute to the truth, beauty, and goodness of genuine Christian virtue.

A Psychiatrist Looks at Personal Identity, Family Structure, and Identity Politics

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If we ever hope to rid our country’s political discourse of the poison of identity politics, we must begin by rebuilding the psychological foundations of healthy identity formation in our children.

Congress Should Protect Conscience Rights for Medical Students Like Me

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Congress should pass the Conscience Protection Act to send a message to the entire nation that our freedom of speech and religious freedom are protected and valued.

Stump Speech for a New Candidate

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Who is willing—and able—to step up and be this candidate?

It’s Possible: Gays and Lesbians Can Have Happy Marriages

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Same-sex marriage is not the only option for gays and lesbians who seek the personal fulfillment and familial happiness that is the universal desire of the human heart.

Texas Lawmen and the Lawless Court

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The Governor and Attorney General of Texas should obey the law, not the Supreme Court’s ambiguous abstractions. They should continue to secure the fundamental liberty of vulnerable Texans and make the abortion industry assert its super-claim-rights in court.

A Pledge Betrayed: The Obama Administration Nullifies Conscience Rights

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The Obama administration not only enforces but unilaterally expands some civil rights laws, such as when “sex” became “gender identity” in Title IX. Yet it promotes exceptions, loopholes, and countervailing arguments for other civil rights protections, such as conscience rights for those who oppose abortion.
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