fbpx
Facebook Twitter Instagram Youtube Rss
Search
Close this search box.
Search Results For:

Search Results for: branch – Page 9

Public Discourse

Time for a Return of Fusionism

By
Conservatives and libertarians must rediscover the things that bind them together. A return to Frank Meyer’s philosophy of “fusionism” could provide a roadmap to unity.
Public Discourse

Why Easy Stem Cells Raise Hard Ethical Questions

By
A surprising new method for making stem cells offers scientists an easy alternative to destroying human embryos. But there is a disturbing possibility that the technique may create not stem cells but actual cloned embryos.
Public Discourse

Conservatives and the Constitution

By
Conservatives must resist the temptation toward “big-government conservatism.” Easy acceptance of extra-constitutional federal powers betrays the philosophical roots of the conservative movement.
Public Discourse

Complicating Conception: The Desires of Parents and the Rights of Children

By
Infertile parents who desperately seek a child might see anonymous sperm donation as the solution to their fertility difficulties. But as the stories in the Anonymous Us collective reveal, the difficulties faced by donor-conceived children are just beginning.
Public Discourse

How to Avoid an Unconstitutional War: A Beginner’s Guide for Presidents and Congresses

By
Without authorization from Congress, American presidents can only start unconstitutional wars, even if they are motivated by good intentions.
Public Discourse

The DOMA Decision and the Inscrutable Anthony Kennedy

By
When Justice Anthony Kennedy writes a majority opinion for the Supreme Court, he is famous for baffling his fellow justices (particularly Justice Antonin Scalia) as well as lower court judges.
Public Discourse

Abraham Lincoln, the Supreme Court, and the Defense of Marriage Act

By
Just as Lincoln rejected the Supreme Court’s reasoning in the Dred Scott decision, so too conservative leaders need to reject the Court’s faulty reasoning about DOMA. Anti-democratic judicial activism has become habitual only because our elected leaders have declined to respond to it with Lincoln’s clarity and firmness.
Public Discourse

Sexual Assaults in the Military: Porn is Part of the Problem

By and
If our military is to lower its rate of sex crimes, it must limit its members’ consumption of pornography and educate them about its risks.
Public Discourse

Evolutionary Theory and Reality: A Response to Seagrave

By
Darwin’s evolutionary theory doesn’t ask us to “overlook” how we usually “behold the face of nature,” but instead asks us to consider more carefully what we do see.
Public Discourse

Kermit Gosnell and the Logic of “Pro-Choice”

By
Kermit Gosnell has been the equivalent of the American slave-dealer—someone who has done work rendered absolutely necessary by the twisted laws of his regime, but who has nevertheless been ignored or regarded with unease, and even repulsion, by his fellow citizens.
Public Discourse

Same-Sex Marriage and the Abyss of Nihilism

By
We cannot embrace same-sex marriage and live in continuity with our past as a civilization. To embrace it is to deny that tradition, revelation, reason, and nature have any authority over us.
Public Discourse

Forty Years Later: It’s Time for a New Feminism

By
A feminism that promotes abortion as the key to women’s freedom does not help us flourish, preserve our dignity, or protect us from evils. We must support women so that the “choice” between life and abortion is no longer difficult because life is the natural choice.
Public Discourse

Lessons from France on Defending Marriage

By
Unlikely characters, including gay men, are leading the French people in protest against redefining marriage. A repeating refrain is “the rights of children trump the right to children.” Americans should follow their example of mobilizing across party lines.
Public Discourse

Moral Neutrality, Marriage, and the Supreme Court

By
A recent ruling in the United States District Court in Hawaii reveals a rational basis for the Supreme Court to rule on a morally neutral basis that marriage can be enshrined in law.
Public Discourse

Medicine’s Dance with Death

By
A physician-philosopher argues that modern medicine is oriented toward the dead body because it is no longer informed by an ultimate purpose for human existence.
Public Discourse

George Washington’s Legacy as a Foreign Policy Guide

By
Washington’s life suggests that prudence, flexibility, and moderation both in personal and national pursuits of power should guide our leaders in their foreign policy strategies.
Public Discourse

Poverty, Abortion, and Budgets: Democrats for Life Need Better Arguments

By
A recent address encouraging Democrats for Life to re-elect President Obama is marked by flawed reasoning and misleading statistics.
Public Discourse

Will the Obamacare “Tax” Trump Religious Liberty?

By
Though the Supreme Court has long been hostile to tax exemptions for religious reasons, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the Establishment Clause should give religious organizations reasons to hope that they won’t be penalized by the Obamacare “tax.”
Public Discourse

In Defense of John Roberts

By
The Supreme Court should be an apolitical institution dedicated to enforcing the minimal and clear requirements of the Constitution.
Public Discourse

Chief Justice Roberts and the Changing Conservative Legal Movement

By
The clash between Chief Justice Roberts’ opinion and that of the joint dissenters is best seen as a clash between two visions of judicial restraint, and two eras of the conservative legal movement.
Public Discourse

Casey: Enduring, Entrenched, Intentionally Evil Egregious Error

By
Casey is not a sound exposition of the Constitution, and its authority should be repudiated by all other actors in our constitutional system The second in a two-part series on the deadly significance of Planned Parenthood v. Casey
Public Discourse

Planned Parenthood v. Casey at Twenty: The Worst Constitutional Decision of All Time

By
In its effects, methodology, substantive doctrine, conception of the judicial role and of judicial authority, and conception of what constitutes the rule of law, Casey is terribly significant and terribly wrong. The first in a two-part series on the deadly significance of Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
Public Discourse

Why Sexual Integrity Isn’t Out-of-Date

By
A book about sex by J. Budziszewski uses natural law arguments to persuade young adults of the moral benefits of purity.
Public Discourse

Self-Government and Judicial Review

By
Liberals and conservatives alike often complain hypocritically about judicial activism. If we are to avoid letting judicial activism become rule in favor of whatever causes justices approve, then we should make the presumption of constitutionality a basic principle of judicial review.
Facebook Twitter Instagram Youtube Rss
Public Discourse © 2024 | All Rights Reserved