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Life Worthy of Life: Down Syndrome, Equality, and My Son Silas

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Those of us blessed by the love of someone with an extra twenty-first chromosome look forward to October. October invites me, along with all other parents of children with Down Syndrome, to proclaim loudly that our children live lives worthy of life.

Markets, Catholicism, and Libertarianism

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Supporting markets as the economic arrangements most likely to help promote human flourishing doesn’t necessarily mean you accept libertarian philosophical premises.

Calling All Electors: Throw the Election to the House, and You Just Might Save Our Country

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The Electoral College was conceived for just the kind of national leadership crisis we now face.

2016 and the Future of the Supreme Court

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What would happen if a justice with the judicial philosophy and record of Justice Ginsburg were to replace Justice Scalia on the Court?

The Future of Pro-Life Legislation and Litigation

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In her landmark 1971 paper, Judith Jarvis Thomson tried to defend abortion by appeal to norms of justification consistently applicable in a range of other cases. By contrast, the courts in and after Roe and Casey have treated the right to abortion as an unquestionable legal principle. This inverted approach is doomed to fail as it continues to reveal the anomalous character of abortion rights.

No, We Should Not Legalize Recreational Marijuana Use

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Legalizing recreational marijuana use would hurt not only those who smoke—it also hurts children and society as a whole. As a country, if we encourage and profit from this vice, we will be undermining the very foundations of our government.

If Tim Kaine Wins, the Catholic Church Loses

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Many high-profile Catholics like Tim Kaine publicly dissent from Catholic teaching and promote offenses against human dignity. When their actions go unrebuked by Church leaders, it harms both the Church as a whole and the faith of individual Catholics.

Hijacking Science: How the “No Differences” Consensus about Same-Sex Households and Children Works

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The claim that there are no differences in outcomes for children living in same-sex households arises from how scholars collect, analyze, and present data to support a politically expedient conclusion, not from what the data tend to reveal at face value.

Pronouns, Ordinary People, and the War over Reality

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Do not dismiss the pronominal wars as nonsense or assume that its warriors are merely daft.

The End of the Utilitarian Argument for Trump

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If you have been tempted by the utilitarian, lesser-of-two-evils argument for Donald Trump, then you must appreciate how his latest and most serious scandal changes that calculation.

We Abandon Social Conservatism at Our Own Peril

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Fiscal conservativism cannot exist without social conservatism. Strong families form the foundation of healthy societies and strong economies.

Love, Not Power: Diagnosing our Body Politic

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The deepest wellspring of human action is not power but love—the appetite to love and care for others and to be loved and cared for. Any healing of our broken political system must proceed on the basis of this basic truth about its parts.

Autonomy or Worthiness? How to Find Dignity in Death

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There is dignity in living and dignity in dying, because the concept of “dignity” is inseparable from our humanity. Even when our autonomy is lost, all people can still undergo suffering and death with a noble and dignified serenity.

Betrayed by Our Leaders: A Young Conservative Responds to Endorsements of Donald Trump

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The leaders of organizations that have shaped a generation of young conservatives are now endorsing Donald Trump, a man who is the antithesis of the values held by each of these institutions.

Collaborative Greatness: The Lesson of George Washington and Alexander Hamilton

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We need to reflect on and learn from Washington and Hamilton’s lesson in collaborative greatness. Their alliance forged our nation, and we will need similar alliances to preserve it and ensure its flourishing.

On Wealth and the Bible, The First Christians Were Not Like David Bentley Hart

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Neither the New Testament nor the writings of early Christians support the idea that material wealth is intrinsically evil.

Toward a Deeper Discussion about Diversity

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Diversity is complex—much more so than our popular treatment of the subject suggests. Shallow thinking about diversity lends itself to a number of fallacies. If we desire a fruitful conversation about diversity, we first need to recognize—and reckon with—this complexity.

How Christianity Created the Free Society

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While many Christians have undermined human liberty, a new book of essays shows just how much of our contemporary freedom we owe to the Christian church, Christian thinkers, and Christian practice rather than liberals and liberalism.

SOGI Laws: A Subversive Response to a Nonexistent Problem

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Now is not the time for proponents of religious freedom to partner with proponents of sexual orientation and gender identity legislation in hopes of catching a few crumbs of liberty that fall from the table.

Transgender Identities Are Not Always Permanent

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Transgenderism is based on feelings that can change over time.

Advice for Donald Trump

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If Donald Trump becomes our president, can he become a truly conservative leader? If so, how?

Ancient Wisdom in Barren Times

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Far too many of us, even the most tender and gentle, have absorbed the hypothesis that a refusal of life is the condition of love.

All Death is Death Without Dignity

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Advocates for “death with dignity” seem to deny reality, since no human death is truly dignified—even if a person chooses or accepts it. Instead, what ultimately gives death dignity is the kind of life that preceded it.

Religious Freedom: The Basis for Human Rights . . . and the Survival of Christians in the Middle East

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It is time for the international community to respond to the plight of Christians in the middle east. Adapted from an address delivered by the Patriarch of the Syriac Catholic Church of Antioch to the 134th Convention of the Knights of Columbus.
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