Get over your Moralityphobia
Knowing history as I do – I’m betting that we’re as capable of coming up with a working moral code on our own as we are of instituting the laws of chemistry or physics or gravity.
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Homosexuality: Let’s Talk About What We’re Talking About
The political left benefits every time someone on the political right ignores the basics when it comes to the debate over so-called “homosexual rights” or same-sex “marriage.” This column has spent some time on…
Read MoreMorality and the ‘Homosexual Rights’ Debate
The subject of “homosexual rights” is controversial for many reasons. Too many Americans, in spite of all their supposed enlightenment and tolerance, can’t handle the voicing of certain strong opinions particularly if those opinions include talk about morality.
Read MoreHow civilizations fall
By Kenneth Minogue: Camille Paglia famously said that if we had waited for women to invent civilization we should still be living in grass huts.
Read MoreInconvenience Lives
By Robert H. Bork: The question of whether abortion is the termination of a human life is a relatively simple one.
Read MorePedophilia Chic, Part 2
By Mary Eberstadt
Read MorePedophilia Chic
By Mary Eberstadt: If you thought sex with children was taboo–think again.
Read MoreAn update on the culture wars
By Roger Kimball: Moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and vice is the opposite. —Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
Read MoreA New Order of Religious Freedom
By Richard John Neuhaus: In his draft of the “Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom,” Jefferson wrote: “The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.”
Read MoreRonald Reagan’s 1977 CPAC Speech
By Ronald Reagan: We know today that the principles and values that lie at the heart of conservatism are shared by the majority.
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Ronald Reagan’s ‘A Time for Choosing’ Speech
Click here for the transcript.
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