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The Intuitive Guide to Religious Liberty Law

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Common sense can tell us whether particular citizens should be exempt from certain government policies for religious reasons. Codifying such instinctive judgments into formal statutes is more difficult.
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A Tale of Two Trials: Karamazov and Zimmerman

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Trials are not the place for working out our social grievances and anxieties.
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Dostoyevsky the Prophet: The Trial of Dmitri Karamazov and the Redefinition of Family

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Dostoyevsky prophetically depicts the notion of family as determined not by nature but by consent—an idea that has come to dominate our modern society.
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What’s Wrong is Right: A Revolution in Rationalization

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Today, we face a movement to accomplish on a societal level what those who embrace morally condemned behavior have always sought as individuals: rationalization.
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Of Astrophysics and Atheism: Wherefore Religion in the Space Age?

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A future without religion will be a future diminished, for faith—but only a certain kind of faith—is absolutely necessary in the space age.
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How the United States Government Lost Its Liberalism

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Through executive orders and judicial overreach, American government has eroded the separation of powers and lost its commitment to liberal ideals. The second in a two-part series.
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In Praise of Metaphysics: Beyond Natural Science and the Humanities

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Taking philosophy and theology as the foundation of our knowledge elevates and unifies scientific and humanistic inquiry.
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Science and the Embryo

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Senator Rubio was on solid ground in saying science has settled the question of when a human being's life begins. Science does not need to wait on philosophy’s pronouncements to investigate what the human embryo is and when its life begins.
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Western Land Policy and Natural Property Rights

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The principles of natural law and the right to property could help overcome the dysfunction that has paralyzed land management in the western US.
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Marriage, Marketing, and Intimidation: “It is up to you, fearless reader, to act.”

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Proponents of same-sex marriage haven’t won in the arena of ideas—they have won through manipulation and intimidation. Those who oppose them must speak up.
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Religious Liberty and Economic Freedom: Intellectual and Practical Paradoxes

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The role of economic liberty in contributing to human flourishing and the common good remains deeply underappreciated, even by those who are dedicated to religious liberty.
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Twenty-Five Years After Tiananmen: China’s Fight for Human Rights

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A government that cannot face its own history is a government without a future. Memory and truth will give the Chinese people the courage to speak out for democracy, and Americans must join in the fight. Adapted from remarks delivered at the American Enterprise Institute.
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Can Science Tell Us When Life Begins?

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“Science” can tell us when life begins, provided that we already know what to look for. Empirical biology alone cannot tell us what that is. Once we establish a metaphysical account of life, then empirical embryology can tell us whether the relevant conditions are met.
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Building Strong Marriages, One at a Time

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If healthy marriage is the basis of a strong society, it is worth every effort to strengthen it. Marriage education should supplement other efforts to address social problems.
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The Supreme Court on Prayer

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Justice Kennedy’s opinion in Greece v. Galloway is the Court’s best piece of Establishment Clause work in decades—and a happy omen for religious liberty in our country.
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Brown v. Board of Education Turns Sixty

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The new world of civil rights turns the old one on its head.
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Fusionism As Foundation

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Fusionism is not merely a form of coalition building. It provides a common language for the broader conservative movement and a positive vision for the future of the country.
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Why Harvard Was Right Not to Ban the Black Mass

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A policy that disempowers university officials from prohibiting student events on the basis of the viewpoint they express demonstrates institutional genius.
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Marriage and Witness: What’s Going on at Notre Dame?

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The University of Notre Dame is unwilling to bear an “uncompromising witness,” as Pope Francis challenged it to do, to the moral truths of marriage and sexuality. This is a subtle but certain pastoral failure on the university’s part.
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Life on the Academic Animal Farm

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Dehumanizing others through censorship does not befit the academy, but the pigpen.
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Unintelligibility: The Starting Point for Discussing the Science-Humanities Relationship

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Paradoxically, to speak intelligibly about the matters that concern them, contemporary intellectuals must appreciate the unintelligibility of the world in which those matters take place.
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Premature Talk of Surrender on Same-Sex Marriage

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Conservatives must defend marriage for both principled and practical reasons. The Republican Party cannot surrender the cause of marriage without also surrendering the cause of life.
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Abortion, Slavery, and Constitutional Meaning

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Abolitionism provides the example for how to fight for a cause: underscore the humanity of those whose humanity is denied, provide compassionate care for those affected, name the lies that dehumanize and kill, and tirelessly argue for the truth about “who counts.”
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Marriage Equality and the Bible: Why All Forms of Marriage in the Old Testament are Not Equal

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The only form of marriage that existed before the fall was between one man and one woman. The narrative trajectory of the Old Testament shows that all other versions were the result of sin.
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