The online journal of The Witherspoon Institute. R. J. Snell, Editor-in-Chief. @alex_e_davis, Managing Editor. @RyanTAnd, Founding Editor.
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thepublicdiscourse.com/2026/… The elimination of suffering will not produce joy. If we seek to be truly free, we must acknowledge our responsibilities to one another. We will flourish to the extent that we all can flourish.
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thepublicdiscourse.com/2026/… How do we resist evil without being seduced by power? How do we speak about justice without baptizing the nation’s will?
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thepublicdiscourse.com/2026/… Rather than consign him to the camp of the nihilists, I would think it is a more Christian thing to be grateful for his efforts to liberate and defend the soul and to fight so courageously against the ubiquitous “culture of repudiation.”
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thepublicdiscourse.com/2026/… Was the American Revolution an act of justified resistance, or a failure of obedience?
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The Imago Dei as History: A Review of Tomer Persico’s In God’s Image thepublicdiscourse.com/2026/…
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Nice, from Nick Aroney, on "constitutions" in the classical sense, into which category the US Constitution falls and is but one (late arriving) example. thepublicdiscourse.com/2026/…
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The elimination of suffering will not produce joy. If we seek to be truly free, we must acknowledge our responsibilities to one another. We will flourish to the extent that we all can flourish.
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thepublicdiscourse.com/2026/… The seminar cannot, by itself, heal our public life. No educational form can bear that burden alone. But if we want a society capable of civil disagreement, we will need to create and sustain places where we can safely learn it.
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Written Constitutions, Judicial Review, and the Limits of Constitutional Hope thepublicdiscourse.com/2026/…
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thepublicdiscourse.com/2026/… The immersive world flees embodiment and death. It embraces excarnation. But absent Incarnation, the world languishes and grows old, bereft of Eucharist.
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The Forgotten Foundations of Constitutional Law thepublicdiscourse.com/2026/…
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thepublicdiscourse.com/2026/… Atheism is at least as much an act of faith as theism is.
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Can We Humanize Our Brave New World? thepublicdiscourse.com/2026/…
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thepublicdiscourse.com/2026/… Government systems should be designed with care in mind, not weaponized to harm abortion-vulnerable women.
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thepublicdiscourse.com/2026/… For a generation that is marked by a noticeable gender split on political beliefs as well as by ever declining marriage rates, it would seem that young women still retain a desire for a specific vision of manhood. But what exactly is that vision?
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Roger Scruton: Philosophical Christian and Scourge of Nihilism Par Excellence thepublicdiscourse.com/2026/…
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thepublicdiscourse.com/2026/… We don’t know what unintended effects our well-laid plans may have, either abroad or at home, now or in the future. We do know the value of American lives, treasure, and reputation.
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The Seminar and the Recovery of Civil Discourse thepublicdiscourse.com/2026/…
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