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problem of desire in a postsecular age by alexandra davis and luke burgis it s useful to heed the words of gabriel marcel when it comes to desire to paraphrase his life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived perhaps we could instead say desire is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived girard himself refers to desire as a mystery on numerous occasions i think he spent his entire life trying to understand that mystery january 4 2024 the human person january 4 2024 culture history interviews reality is discovered not made an interview with tara isabella burton by alexandra davis and tara isabella burton as this idea of self creation telling our own story self determination has become seen as the fundamental element of human life that means those of us who participate more fully in self creation are more human and those of us who participate less fully are in some sense less human december 7 2023 business economics december 7 2023 economics interviews tax taxes have consequences an interview with arthur b laffer and brian domitrovic by kelly hanlon gustavo alcantar arthur b laffer and brian domitrovic whenever you redistribute income you never actually redistribute income you destroy total income completely every revolution on planet earth has been fought in order to change the distribution of income not one of those revolutions has ever succeeded in redistributing income but all of them have succeeded in destroying the entire quality and quantity of total income november 23 2023 business economics sexuality family the human person november 23 2023 career family homemaking interviews flourishing in work and family life considerations for young women by alexandra davis erika bachiochi kelly hanlon april readlinger katy faust haley stewart and taryn delong six panelists share how they structure their lives in a way that allows them to pursue creative intellectually inspiring work while remaining open to life and faithful to the good work of the home october 26 2023 the human person october 26 2023 culture human dignity interviews polarization discovering the soul of civility an interview with alexandra hudson by alexandra davis and alexandra hudson politeness is manners it s technique it s etiquette it s behavior it s at the superficial external level alone but civility is a disposition of the heart it s a way of seeing others as our moral equals and treating them with the respect that they re owed and deserve september 28 2023 politics law the human person september 28 2023 conservatism interviews politics the history and future of conservatism an interview with dr george h nash by kelly hanlon dr george h nash and james de marcellus these desires freedom virtue and safety were the underlying impulses of the libertarian traditionalist and national security elements of the fusionist conservative movement during the cold war era and it seems to me that when you look at it this way you will recognize that these yearnings persist on the right to this day august 17 2023 sexuality family august 17 2023 culture interviews sexuality how gender activists defaced pediatric medicine an interview with miriam grossman md by devorah goldman and miriam grossman my book is based on a series of dangerous ideas that have led us to where we are now beginning with the insidious theories of john money these ideas progressed through the fields of psychology and psychiatry and eventually infiltrated our educational and legal systems corrupting many of the country s most powerful institutions july 20 2023 education culture july 20 2023 art christianity culture fine art interviews exploring the evangelical imagination with karen swallow prior by karen swallow prior and serena sigillito that s really what i want out of this whole project for us to see that it s all saying something whether it s a cheesy t shirt or a simple country church building or a medieval cathedral i want us to really pay attention and ask what is it saying what is true and good and beautiful in what it s saying and what is not view more interviews book reviews april 14 2024 education culture politics law the human person april 14 2024 book reviews catholicism papacy in the courts of three popes an insider s insight by charles j chaput faithfully living what we claim to believe as catholic christians shapes the future and the fact is we can no longer afford a sclerotic church a comfortable church a get along church we need to be a confessing church not just in our diocesan structures but in the pews and family homes of every parish april 3 2024 politics law april 3 2024 book reviews democracy politics the real mover of the civic bargain a review of manville and ober by allen c guelzo self interest in a democracy is not necessarily an evil it only becomes an evil when democratic government grows so intrusive in ordinary life that self interest can only be interpreted as a kind of dissent from a general but now all pervasive good march 17 2024 education culture politics law the human person march 17 2024 book reviews conscience protection disintegrating conscience in a fragmented age by francis j beckwith although one might find oneself disagreeing with smith as i have on occasion one will be better for it and i can say that with a clear conscience march 12 2024 sexuality family march 12 2024 book reviews chastity sexuality how to think about chastity by nathaniel peters chastity is a way of being more holistically directed toward our happiness regardless of the desires and attractions we experience march 5 2024 the human person march 5 2024 book reviews integralism all the kingdoms of the world by v bradley lewis vallier has done a valuable service by patiently pointing out all the moral and political problems entailed by any attempt to establish integralism the most important problem with integralism however is less in its conception of the state than in its conception of the church february 18 2024 education culture the human person february 18 2024 book reviews public discourse religion impossible but true a review of they flew a history of the impossible by carlos eire by peter harrison eire s absorbing and impeccably researched book invites us to at least ponder that alternative balancing act while reminding us of historian ethan shagan s apposite observation that every era is credulous but they are credulous in different ways february 13 2024 sexuality family the human person february 13 2024 book reviews gender what s at stake in sexual difference a review of trouble with gender sex facts gender fictions by alex byrne by rachel m coleman until everyone including byrne sees that the point of gender ideology is to change our understanding of human being our arguments and clarifications will ultimately be impotent february 12 2024 politics law february 12 2024 book reviews conservatism liberalism polarization politics why liberalism needs piety by lee trepanier according to nichols aristotelian human flourishing requires piety the acknowledgment that humans are akin to the divine but cannot be divine themselves the task of the political community is to support the life of piety january 30 2024 sexuality family the human person january 30 2024 book reviews culture parenthood and children transgender it s time to think about the irreversible damage of shoddy sciences a review of hannah barnes by devorah goldman barnes repeatedly emphasizes the many parents or clinic employees who had tried to sound the alarm but whose warnings were ignored by clinic authorities but barnes is loath to draw any firm conclusions from these stories her cautious wording and frequent qualifiers undermine some of the book s most important points and questions view more book reviews long reads april 4 2024 politics law april 4 2024 long reads polarization politics sociology in the age of trump the clash of deep stories on the left and right by jesse smith if the stories can change it stands to reason that they can improve or deteriorate responsible cultural elites of the left and right alike would do well to consider not only what claims they make explicitly but what kinds of stories underlie those claims and whether these are the right stories to tell march 14 2024 politics law march 14 2024 israel just war long reads war the west has forgotten why collateral damage is morally justified by shlomo m brody ultimately the defeat of these terrorist groups is the primary ethical imperative this will benefit not only israel but also the gazan civilians who suffer longer under their terrorist leaders and the continuous warfare that they breed there is a moral cost to not acting decisively and a strategic cost to forgetting the moral justification for killing in war february 11 2024 education culture politics law the human person february 11 2024 free speech institutions long reads should universities protect campus anti semites by yoram hazony perhaps the time has finally come for anti marxist professors to concede that the liberal theory of the university as a neutral forum is too far removed from reality to be feasible instead anti marxist liberals and conservatives should be defending a theory of the university as an educational institution that has no choice but to uphold at least minimal standards of substantive decency january 18 2024 politics law january 18 2024 2024 election constitutional law long reads politics is donald trump disqualified from the presidency a response to matthew j franck by michael w mcconnell people have a right to protest supposed electoral fraud even if they are obviously and verifiably wrong they do not have the right to commit violence no one has the right to commit violence in a political cause but not all political violence is insurrection january 11 2024 politics law january 11 2024 2024 election constitutional law long reads politics is donald trump disqualified from the presidency by matthew j franck the country is divided many people support donald trump and many revile him whatever is decided on his eligibility or his criminal culpability in federal and state prosecutions large numbers of people are going to be very unhappy november 9 2023 politics law the human person november 9 2023 disability human dignity long reads the curious rise in disability how changing language alters the nature of reality by rachel roth aldhizer by using such a broad understanding of disability and therefore limiting conversation about other social environmental or economic factors the state can both absolve itself of needing to provide real policy solutions and proclaim itself the protector of a victimized class october 5 2023 the human person october 5 2023 culture long reads modernity religion life in the ruins keeping faith within the immanent frame by r j snell there is no romance without the real presence of god no sacramental imagination without the sacraments and the wonders of fantasy cannot be asserted of primary reality itself september 7 2023 the human person september 7 2023 long reads religion the liberal anti liberal on john henry newman s political thought by austin walker for newman the discovery of any reasonable political settlement would first require what both the letter to the duke of norfolk and the oxford movement had hoped to do prepare the public imagination for an apostolic church an institution in which obedience without mental slavery was married to liberty without self will august 3 2023 education culture august 3 2023 education history liberal arts long reads the past as enemy country why teachers of great books should be teaching history too by james hankins we need to study history as a subject in its own right acquiring a deep appreciation for the story of western civilization with all its abysses of failure and all its deservedly celebrated achievements we need to help our students understand old texts at a deeper level in less anachronistic ways above all we need to arm them against the hostility to their own tradition that has become such a destructive force in our culture view more long reads newsletters april 6 2024 april 6 2024 public discourse from the editor s desk public discourse s monthly roundup march 2024 by alexandra davis the truth lurking inside the great morass of opinions questions and fears about the human condition is that a confluence of factors leads to greater personal familial and communal flourishing march 2 2024 march 2 2024 public discourse from the editor s desk public discourse s monthly roundup february 2024 by r j snell reflections on right reason plus a roundup of this month s essays january 27 2024 january 27 2024 public discourse from the editor s desk public discourse s monthly roundup january 2024 by alexandra davis reflections on hope plus a roundup of this month s essays november 24 2023 november 24 2023 public discourse from the editor s desk public discourse s monthly roundup november 2023 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