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Slowly Eroding Christianity

Christianity has been under secular attack (as opposed to Islamic attack) for more than three centuries now, ever since the…

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The Pursuit of Happiness

Michael Pakaluk: “Happiness” is an essentially contested idea, but we’re far from able to peremptorily declare the Founders misguided.

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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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On the Moral Alchemy of the Political Party

Hadley Arkes: It is a mystery that in 2020 so many failed to see that two Administrations had differences both systematic and morally momentous.

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Reason, Revelation, and the American Regime

Hadley Arkes: The American Founding was ultimately Catholic because it invoked natural law and natural rights to justify the cause of liberty.

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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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Iconoclasm – and Us

Eduardo Echeverria: If “white” equates to “racist,” our institutions, though democratic, reflect determinism, and empty our actions of moral responsibility.

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