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The online journal of The Witherspoon Institute. R. J. Snell, Editor-in-Chief. @alex_e_davis, Managing Editor. @RyanTAnd, Founding Editor.
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Whether Beethoven ought to be understood as a Catholic composer is no longer the difficult question, but how and when he is Catholic in his music will, I suspect, frame many discussions to come.
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Whether Beethoven ought to be understood as a Catholic composer is no longer the difficult question, but how and when he is Catholic in his music will, I suspect, frame many discussions to come.
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Changing the Subject: Hidden Assumptions in Justice Sotomayor’s Defense of Gender Transition Medicine
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Justice Sotomayor’s analysis depends on many assumptions that she does not articulate or defend. This lack of clarity leads to unnecessary confusion and inconsistency. In more ways than one, Justice...
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McConnell will be the deciding vote for fifteen more months. That’s the countdown for a retirement-eligible judge who wants to be replaced by a conservative.
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McConnell will be the deciding vote for fifteen more months. That’s the countdown for a retirement-eligible judge who wants to be replaced by a conservative.
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Christ and the End of the Scapegoat
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Christians need to realize that there is no scapegoat on this earth that can be sacrificed to bring us a peaceful end to the evils we encounter.
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Our frequent contributor @DixieDillonLane was featured on @AveAfternoon, a production of @EWTN, yesterday to discuss her recent piece on school choice. Link to her original piece is in the comments. Congratulations, Dixie!.
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RT @DixieDillonLane: I enjoyed talking with @AveAfternoon about my recent piece on school choice @PublicDiscourse . If your local public s….
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Whatever the political discussion, it seems reasonable to expect that parental pressure for school choice will only increase.
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Whether state and federal governments will support school choice remains to be seen; there seems to be considerable political pressure in both directions. But on the social level, while we may...
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The natural law cannot save us. But it can guide us. It can preserve the fragile bonds of civil life if we commit to reasoning together.
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We must rely on natural law, even as we confess that it cannot bear the full weight of moral resolution. Why? The natural law is not enough, yet the natural law is all we have as denizens of a...
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The Myths in our Midst: On the Teaching of the History of Science and Religion in K–12
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Teachers are doing the best that they can. At the same time, I want to be clear that the conflict thesis is about as out of step with our current historical knowledge as scientific creationism is...
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In order to break the cycle of partisan polarization in this country, both sides will have to play their part.
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President Trump plays extreme hardball by American standards, some of it blatantly authoritarian. Conservatives lose credibility when they deny this. But Trump’s election and reelection were, in...
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Separate but Complementary: Tocqueville’s Counsels for Church–State Relations
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Some today think religion and politics should be more intertwined. Alexis de Tocqueville would have thought just the opposite.
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Monasteries teach us two important lessons for our culture today.
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Social conservatives have long recognized the civilizational value of the quotidian work of parenthood. In an analogous way, we ought to recognize that it is in the small acts of local participation...
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As you can see from the quotations I’ve chosen, Voegelin was capable of striking turns of phrase and bold arguments. It is easy to see what was attractive about his work for a Christian conservative like Bill Buckley.
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Voegelin was capable of striking turns of phrase and bold arguments. It is easy to see what was attractive about his work for a Christian conservative.
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