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End the Drug War: The American People are Not the Enemy
This article is the first installment in the symposium “What’s Wrong With Drugs?” Matthew Feeney weighed in with a discussion of self-ownership and drug use. Gavin McInnes argues that drugs are bad,...
View ArticleReading Faster, Reflecting Less
Recently, my Facebook newsfeed, the contemporary equivalent of a town crier, has been abuzz about a new app that helps people read faster. Slate and The Jesuit Post have both produced articles on the...
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Normality and Morality: Is Either Even Desirable?
What does normal mean? We all know. What does it mean to be normal? That’s much trickier. We have trouble with the second question because what’s normal is always changing. What’s normal is so...
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The Ballad of the Spineless Society
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen “Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never...
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Gay Marriage and Religious Freedom: Roommates or Stalemates?
My colleague Ben Riggs has written a thoughtful piece arguing that conservatives should acknowledge that religious freedom and gay marriage can peacefully co-exist in a secular democracy like ours....
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The (Reality) Problem of Evil
This week for my Film and Literature Seminar I read Joyce Carol Oates’s “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” It’s a latter-day “Young Goodman Brown” set against a backdrop of burger joints, pop...
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The Moral Implications of Global Thinking
Robert Kaplan argued in December for “The Virtue of Amoral Foreign Policy,” (originally published at Stratfor): “When we think seriously about foreign policy we think amorally.” I would suggest when...
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Warming the Cold Imagination
Image by SplitShire via Pixabay. When is the last time you heard a song on the radio and searched for it on YouTube? Did you find the song you were looking for? What was it that made you look for that...
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What Aristotle and Psychiatric Drugs Reveal about the Charleston Shooting
Image by Piotrg255 via Pixabay. Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show and popular political comic, made a humorless appearance on his show last week after nine congregants were shot dead in their Church...
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Are You a Philosopher or a Filing Cabinet?
Image by Scott Beale via Flickr. Although most of us do not spend our days sitting in forums and academies contemplating and debating metaphysical theory, we all think and act according to certain...
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