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Stephen Douglas and Donald Trump’s America: Lessons from Lincoln

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Seeing in our contemporary politics the revival of Douglas Democracy in all its anxieties about freedom—and seeing it make such headway in Lincoln’s political party—is disheartening in the extreme. The imperative of learning from Lincoln, as Allen Guelzo’s work brings him to us, has never been stronger.

Dear Mr. Trump: If You Want to Make America Great Again, You’ve Got to Start with Marriage

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If you want to make America great again, you cannot afford to ignore the role stable marriage plays in motivating our labor force and in our nation’s economic growth as a whole.

The Problem of Character: Why Conservatives Must Reject Donald Trump

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The face that is emerging for the GOP is the ugly face we have always been accused of having—misogynistic, racist, and gratuitously authoritarian. If we assent to his nomination, how can we still consider ourselves the flag bearers of the attempt to harmonize virtue and the political life?

The Evolving HHS Mandate: A Play in Three Acts (So Far)

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A play in three acts, each consisting of a meeting between the CEO of a religious charity and the agent representing her health insurance company.

Global Capitalism versus Christianity? A Response to David Bentley Hart

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Christianity has never seen the pursuit of virtue as incompatible with private possession of wealth.

Women and Abortion: Getting to the Heart of the Matter

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Pro-abortion groups promote stories that present abortion as an empowering experience, but those in post-abortion recovery ministries know a different reality. Many women and men are deeply wounded by their experience of abortion.

Unnecessary and Inappropriate Constitutional Conflict in North Carolina

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If the federal government, via the interpretive activity of one of its executive departments, can issue mandates to the states regarding bathrooms, it is hard to imagine an area of local governance shielded from federal scrutiny.

Can Trump Be the Man Eisenhower Was?

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It’s time for another Morningside Heights Declaration.

The Politics of Passion: The Lesson of Thomas More

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If we want a just society, we must begin by recovering the right understanding of prudence. We must not commit the idealist’s error of making the best the enemy of the good.

Who Represents “We the People?”

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Political institutions force individuals to cooperate, to listen to opposing points of view, and to think about the decisions they are about to make. They delay and complicate the way that consent is expressed, but this is precisely why they are necessary: they help ensure that the public will is reasonable.

The Meaninglessness of Our Political Discourse: A Lesson from George Orwell

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If a slogan can mean anything to anyone, who could oppose it?

Valuing Full-Time Motherhood

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While most Americans respect and appreciate mothers on an individual basis, we as a society devalue their vocation.

The Right to Be Differently Excellent: Why Christian Colleges Should Be Allowed to Be Christian

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Vanderbilt is legally free to constitute itself as a non-religious university. The question is whether Gordon College will be left free to constitute itself as a Christian college. Will we have equal liberty, or only liberty for those who despise Christianity?

You Don’t Need “Meternity” Leave to Be Happy—You Just Need to Love Someone Else More Than Yourself

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Becoming parents shocks us out of our normal state of being. It compels us to love others more deeply and to act upon that love more fully.

The Gospel of Happiness

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Christopher Kaczor’s The Gospel of Happiness brings new insight to Christian practice by applying the lessons of positive psychology to it. His approach shows how both religious and secular seekers of happiness can learn and benefit from the other tradition.

Antonin Scalia, Persistent Champion of Constitutional Republicanism

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The students of Justice Scalia were not merely those who took his classes or served as his clerks. Through his opinions, he taught countless others the importance of the rule of law, republican self-government, and the virtue of courageous persistence in a good cause.

Why The Humanities Still Have Purpose

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The humanities have much to offer to professionals in every field, from science to law to finance—if only their defenders knew how to make a convincing case to the general public. Donald Drakeman’s new book offers several approaches to making that case.

Constitution 101: A Lesson for Donald Trump

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The American Founders understood that good government requires judicious “rigging.” Such rigging is only “crooked” if one wrongly assumes that consent alone is a sufficient condition for justice.

Renting Wombs is a Human Wrong, not a Human Right

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The Council of Europe has rejected a report recommending the legalization of surrogacy. This decision is a victory for human rights: Despite arguments that surrogacy is “compassionate,” its history of contentious litigation and documented human rights abuses make clear that it is a grave wrong.

Why Governments Haven’t, and Shouldn’t, Recognize Polygamy

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Despite the example set by the Biblical patriarchs, Western societies have traditionally outlawed polygamy, for reasons both religious and secular. In his recent book, John Witte Jr. gives a history of the arguments for and against polygamy, making a compelling case that polygamy should not be recognized today.

Federal Courts, Government Agencies, and Transgender Bathroom Policy

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A federal court has said a student’s subjective understanding alters the meaning of an unambiguous, federal law. And it alters the meaning of the law for everyone in the Gloucester County school district and, potentially, everyone who resides in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.

The Bard, the Bathroom, and the Common Good: Shakespeare’s Timeless and Timely Political Thought

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Whether we discuss the nature of marriage or the rules governing bathroom use, Shakespeare calls on us to remember who we are as human beings and how our nature should be reflected in our society’s mores and laws.

What’s Wrong With Rights?

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Rights in the modern world are meaningless, existing only at the will of a sovereign lawmaker. A return to “perfectionist jurisprudence,” in which rights are derived from plural authorities, at least some of which are higher that the human sovereign, and constructed on genuine human goods, would restore the structural integrity and normative currency of human rights.

The Ideological Diversity of the Pro-Life Movement

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Daniel K. Williams’s Defenders of the Unborn offers an in-depth history of the pro-life movement in the years before and after abortion’s legalization. Williams does his readers a great service by highlighting the ideological diversity of pro-life activists throughout the movement’s history.
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