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Support the Work of Public Discourse 22 Aug 2013 | 06:45 am
A note from the editor. Public Discourse exists to fill a void in the internet publishing world. When we launched five years ago, I put it this way: We live in a sound-bite age. Rhetoric often repla...
Grounding Our Right to Religious Freedom 21 Aug 2013 | 05:45 am
Our right to religious freedom is best grounded in the universal duty to seek ultimate truth, and not in human autonomy. Do rights protect autonomy or duties? Answers to that question drive our curre...
Now That We’re All Haters… 20 Aug 2013 | 05:11 am
To defend marriage, we must reframe the narratives that shape our culture and our minds. In a recent conversation with a dozen well-educated young social conservatives, I found that hardly any held t...
Why Is It So Difficult to Discuss Marriage? 17 Aug 2013 | 05:08 am
Redefining marriage will bring profound and perhaps unintended consequences for the ways in which we think of ourselves as men and women, and for the kind of society we live in. Adapted from the Forew...
Jean Bethke Elshtain: Gifted Thinker and Courageous Woman 16 Aug 2013 | 06:15 am
Jean Bethke Elshtain, our editorial board member and Witherspoon Institute Senior Fellow, fearlessly pursued truth irrespective of the prevailing orthodoxies in the academy and the broader intellectua...
Losing My Religion: Faith, Family, and the Real Story of Secularization in the West 15 Aug 2013 | 05:11 am
In her new book, Mary Eberstadt argues that the West started losing God when it started losing the natural family. If she is right, then churches need to encourage and promote family formation, and re...
Dissecting Political Correctness 14 Aug 2013 | 05:36 am
To resist the manipulative forces of political correctness, we must speak out and overcome the social isolation that breeds silence. Victory in the war of ideas often hinges more on the conditions of...
A Pulpit for Bullies 13 Aug 2013 | 04:55 am
To campaign against the bullying of LGBT people as if disagreement with the gay lifestyle were an evil is itself a form of bullying. On June 19, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Mich...
Collaborative Reproduction and the Things We Should Not Do 10 Aug 2013 | 06:26 am
The city council of Washington, DC should consider the psychological damage to children that would come of a new bill legalizing surrogacy contracts. The Washington, DC, city council is currently con...
Principled Entitlement Reform: Private Ordering Needs Room to Grow 9 Aug 2013 | 06:53 am
Private, not public, law enables healthy dependencies by carving out space for communities of people to deliberate together about what to do with the resources available to them. Yesterday’s essay ex...
