Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, but Congress should make a law abridging the freedom of Pornhub.| Public Discourse
The whole world is God’s creation, an expression of his love. The truth about ourselves as dependent creatures who he loves, whom he sent his Son to redeem, is out there for us. We can blind ourselves to it, we can ignore it, but it’s very loud. And the more we help each other see it, the happier we will ultimately be.| Public Discourse
The latest elite orthodoxy threatens children’s minds, bodies, and family relationships. It is time for the high court to clarify that parents—not the government, unions, or advocacy groups—are the primary decisionmakers for children’s education, upbringing, and care.| Public Discourse
In the end, Siraganian’s seven theses mostly collapse from their own structural inadequacy as arguments. Sneers, exaggerations, false comparisons, and non sequiturs are what her theses have going for them. In these respects, she neatly illustrates the need for the intellectual challenge viewpoint diversity promises, on her own campus and others.| Public Discourse
Commitment to America as a whole must come one of two ways—as a “community of communities” in which one’s sympathy for the nation comes channeled through a commitment to locality; or through ideological abstraction.| Public Discourse
In a culture that has forgotten the sacred, to see with the eyes of moral imagination is a quiet revolution. And it is one my generation desperately needs.| Public Discourse
My generation needs help discerning what the good life truly is.| Public Discourse
I wish my elders knew that, in the face of what seems to be an increasingly frightening technocratic reality, we want to live free from deceit and as true humans.| Public Discourse
I have been strongly drawn to pick up several recent books of history and historiography that tackle anachronisms and reifications, because such clarifying works can keep us from making facile conclusions about the past—and about its effect on the present.| Public Discourse
If stillborn children could inspire one of the most-loved children’s books in the twentieth century, then maybe a grandpa with dementia will inspire one of the best stories in the twenty-first.| Public Discourse
Lewis is needed, now more than ever, to help men and women of faith move “further up and further in.” Jews will be much better off for the journey with him.| Public Discourse
If Augustine’s two cities can’t be neatly mapped onto the modern distinction between Church and State, how can his thought help illumine Church-State relations?| Public Discourse
The Holy Spirit is still reliably and certainly at work in aiding the selection of the successor to the Chair of Saint Peter. That the process of getting there often leans on friendships, acquaintances, impressions, hope, and trust should not concern us. We’re human, after all. It couldn’t be otherwise.| Public Discourse
The loving union of persons in even the best marriage is imperfect, temporary, partial, and prone to failure. To expect more than mortal love from marriage is to put a strain upon it that it cannot, and was not intended, to bear.| Public Discourse
Many of us find it difficult to be forced to revise our assumptions and change our views, but for Brown, it seems to be one of the great joys in life.| Public Discourse
Carl Trueman has delivered an invaluable explanation of Marxist critical theory, and of why it resonates with so many in our troubled times.| Public Discourse
Pro-union conservatives have raised real questions about the tensions latent in conservative thought. But they haven’t shown how unions can resolve those tensions.| Public Discourse
One of the film’s deeper provocations is a question we should all ask ourselves: How much time do we spend online? How much of our political outrage is merely performance—anger stoked by algorithms and designed more to entertain than to inform? How often do we confuse the trivial with the profound, devoting our attention to surface-level controversies while neglecting the slow, difficult pursuit of real knowledge?| Public Discourse
This background should prepare us for a more positive account of sexual morality that not only supports the right conclusions, but does so in a way that allows us to affirm the intrinsic goodness of sexual desire and sexual pleasure while connecting them to the great goods of marital friendship and procreation.| Public Discourse
As parents, may we each choose what is real, no matter the cost, that we may come to know real love and pour it out for our children.| Public Discourse
Interpreting the times requires a genuine historical sense as opposed to an unnatural amalgamation of philosophy and history exhibited in the modernist and traditionalist genealogies. This requires us to rediscover the Age of Enlightenment on its own terms.| Public Discourse
Culture, enriched by religion, is the genesis of historical epochs that would not exist without cultured societies. To that end, we can only hope that culture can continue to steer societies away from the desacralized “way of death” toward the sacralized “way of life.”| Public Discourse
For the conservative theorists of the poison pill, everything becomes about ideas. According to them, Ockham, Scotus, Bacon, Descartes, Locke—they are the important bad guys who determined the decadence of our time and the problems we should be talking about. But ideas don’t work this way; reality d| Public Discourse
The most important benefits the Christian religion can give to democracy is the awakening of conscience, the substance of ethics, and the rehumanization of society. It gives human freedom guidance, and the human spirit of toleration and forbearance. And it is the Christian religion that teaches a true equality—that of human dignity, on which an imperfect yet a more just society can be built.| Public Discourse
