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Liberty, License, Gratitude

Robert Royal: If we’re to have a civil public square, we’ll need gratitude for the foundations that made America exceptional in human history.

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The Antidote to Social Despair

Randall Smith: Of the virtues, the one that often gets the least attention is that one in the middle of the three theological virtues: hope.

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Loud Live the Dogma

“The world has heard enough of the so-called ‘rights of man.’ Let it hear something of the rights of God.” — Pope Leo XIII Like all the philosophers of the Enlightenment, John Locke believed that morality could be justified on purely rational grounds. Like all the philosophers of the Enlightenment, he was also wary of […]

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Retreat and Engage: Towards a Conservatism for the Common Good

Christians are in uncharted political territory. Once a formidable force in our politics, the Religious Right is now effectively irrelevant, undermined as much by its own hypocrisy and short-sightedness as by growing secularism. Until recently, most conservative Christians have subscribed to a philosophy known as fusionism: a combination of free-market economics, social traditionalism, and foreign-policy […]

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