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The second pillar of a decent society is the institution of the family, which is built upon the comprehensive sexual union of man and woman. No other institution can top the family’s ability to transmit what is pivotal—character formation, values, virtues, and enduring love—to each new generation.

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Political Responsibility and Exceptionless Moral Norms

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What exceptionless moral norms are we willing to discard for the sake of a good cause?
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When Speaking Falsely is Right

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All lying is immoral, but not all false utterances are lies.
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The Grounds of Our Judgments

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Wrapping up an exchange on judgment and morality.
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Commercialized Sex and Human Bondage

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The American sex trade—strip clubs, prostitution, and the booming pornography business—feeds on and fuels modern-day slavery.
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Sex Gone Wrong

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On the dualism of degrading desire.
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Marching on the Right Side of History

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Defenders of marriage should draw hope and courage from the pro-life movement’s success.
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The Pride of Silence

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Speaking out requires humility as well as courage.
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Natural Law, Natural Rights, and American Constitutionalism

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Announcing the preview of a new online resource from the Witherspoon Institute
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Health, Safety, and Morals

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Whether the case involves pornography or genocide, there are times when authorities must intervene to protect human interests.
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Does Marriage, or Anything, Have Essential Properties?

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A reply to Northwestern Law Professor Andrew Koppelman's second critique of "What is Marriage?"
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Incest and the Degradation of Our Vocabulary

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What’s wrong with a prominent professor’s incestuous relationship with his daughter.
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Marriage: No Avoiding the Central Question

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A reply to NYU Law Professor Kenji Yoshino’s second critique of “What is Marriage?”
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Marriage: Real Bodily Union

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A response to FamilyScholars Blogger Barry Deutsch.
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Marriage: Merely a Social Construct?

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A response to Northwestern Law Professor Andrew Koppelman.
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Moral Principles and Human Happiness

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Moral principles should be derived from experience about what makes people happy, not from logic.
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Kant the Bogey Man

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Kant was right: we need principles to guide our judgments.
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The Argument Against Gay Marriage: And Why it Doesn’t Fail

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A response to NYU Law Professor Kenji Yoshino.
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The Ambitions of Natural Law Ethics: A Reply to Arkes

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What's unnatural about the Kantian take on natural law.
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The Particular Appeal of Universal Principles

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Responding to a review of his most recent book, Hadley Arkes asks some questions about the nature of natural law.
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Campus Political Correctness and the Costs of Free Speech

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It is difficult to speak up and defend certain unpopular truths on today’s college campuses. But it is also urgently needed and greatly rewarding.
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Unemployment and the Minimum Wage

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To stimulate job creation, Democrats favor government spending and Republicans favor tax cuts, but is there a more direct way?
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Pornography and Socially Responsible Investing

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The practice of socially responsible investing, often associated with opposition to apartheid or support for environmental causes, can also be a way to battle the harms of pornography.
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Marriage and the Law of Tradition

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Custom and tradition, far from being necessarily irrational, are often the vehicles of guiding and binding reason.
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Don’t Defend, Don’t Tell

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The Obama Administration has chosen to place political considerations over a proper defense of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell law.
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