Reshaping the Marriage Debate
Applying Insights from Brain Science and Narrative Theory to Sharpen Marriage Advocacy This primer is for anyone involved in pro-marriage advocacy: nonprofits, pastors, churches, and academics. This is...
View ArticleWhat is The Statesman?
Introducing the new flagship journal of the John Jay Institute Center for a Just Society. The professional political class gives us headaches almost daily, whether we live glued to Fox News or MSNBC....
View ArticleWhat We Can Learn from How Americans Justify War
Americans have always valued defensive wars, as presidential rhetoric—if not reality—has consistently revealed. What can today’s leaders draw from their history about how to approach conflict? In...
View ArticleAn Alternative to the Celebrity Pastor
What the modern religious leader can learn from the old country parson. There is a line of work in which grown men dress as Darth Vader and Transformers robots to drive home their points, where they...
View ArticleThree Things Conservatives Could Learn From Richard Hooker
For those of us who still self-identify as “conservative” but who have a bit of appreciation for history, modern “conservatism” presents a pretty sorry spectacle. The great tradition of Burke,...
View ArticleWhy No One Wants to Be an Engineer
“We all have different parts to play, Matthew, and we must all be allowed to play them.” –Lord Grantham, Downton Abbey Education in the “hard” sciences has been a national concern, if not a major...
View ArticleThe Fatal Flaw of American Charity
It’s time to reinvent American civil society. If you’ve opened a direct mail solicitation from an unfamiliar nonprofit, chances are I know a few things about you. One, you’re over 50 years old,...
View ArticleRide the High Country: An Elegy on Leadership
If you want to know what made the statesman and military leader George Catlett Marshall (1880–1959) great, then watch Ride the High Country (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), and you will receive a taste of that...
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Mosque in the Shadow of the Church
What can the modern West learn from the ancient East’s legacy of interfaith dialogue? American interfaith engagements between Muslims and Christians often vacillate between well intentioned...
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C. S. Lewis On Power
The potential tyranny of big government is not the only constitutional danger facing Western democracies. In Norman Maclean’s fly fishing novella, A River Runs Through It, Maclean suggests (echoing...
View ArticleReverse Feminism in Eastern Europe
Many women in eastern Europe are seeking “the good life” in a way that would startle many Western feminists. Many East European1 women appear to be bucking today’s feminist trends, preserving a...
View ArticleThe Janus-Faced Oracle: A Response to Postell
Understanding the principles upon which the American constitutional order is founded requires understanding how experience was used. Joe Postell is to be highly commended for his incisive essay, if...
View ArticleAre We Founded on Principles or on Experience?
The Federalist Papers and the future of American leadership. July 4 is an annual occasion to celebrate Independence Day, but of course we celebrate much more than our independence from Great Britain....
View ArticleWhy Congress Should Rethink Impeachment
Is It Opening Pandora’s Box to Reconsider the Impeachment Powers? Separation of powers is once again in the news with the perennially heralded claim that an imperial presidency threatens to destroy our...
View Article2014: What’s Worth Conserving?
Conservative Leadership for the Future What should conservatism look like in 2014 and beyond? Thoughtful American conservatives are aware of the philosophical roots and political history of their...
View ArticleConservative Revolutionaries?
Is there a role for the conservative statesman at a time of momentous change? Sixty years ago Russell Kirk penned his magnum opus, The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot. Kirk argued that American...
View ArticleThe Origins of Our Growing Class Divide
Insights from James Madison, Alexis de Tocqueville, and the Anti-Federalists A number of recent studies have demonstrated how far apart Americans are growing—Republican from Democrat, rich from poor....
View ArticleSin and the Separation of Powers
How two Founding Fathers’ understanding of man influenced the Constitution. Increasing numbers of Americans have been self-identifying as irreligious or atheistic, especially among my fellow...
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An Introduction
Welcome to our article symposium on Christian Imagination! This is our theme. Starting today and continuing through the next two weeks, our writers will be sharing their thoughts on the theme: Having...
View ArticleThe World Behind Stories
Moviegoers question what is real: the world or the story. Guillermo Del Toro tells us the response must be “both.” Robert Coles’ The Call of Stories (1990) changed how I taught. His first chapter,...
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