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A New Conversation on Marriage?

David Blankenhorn thinks the gay marriage debate has reached a dead end. He wants it to go in a new direction. Thus “ A Call for a New Conversation on Marriage ,” a manifesto of sorts from the Institute for American Values. Blankenhorn wants to form a coalition of the willing to renew the . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 1.31.13

Russian “Old Believers” Cut Off from Society for Forty Years Mike Dash, Smithsonian Zero Dark Thirty : It’s Time to Get Dogmatic About Torture Slavoj Zizek, Religion & Ethics Jane Austen, Moral Philosopher Thomas Rodham, Philosophy Now The Reformation, Rooted in Tradition . . . . Continue Reading »

Three Marriage Links

“Pope: Easy Annulments Undercut the Value of Marriage,” USA Today: Pope Benedict XVI says granting annulments too easily is undercutting the value of lifelong marriage. In a speech Saturday, he asked the Vatican’s highest appeals court to consider reviewing church rules on marriage . . . . Continue Reading »

Architecture and Solidarity

A friend wrote recently. He was responding to my observations about the role of public spaces in sustaining a robust sense of solidarity. Good architecture is a public good, he writes, and “bad architecture is regressive. There will always be bad buildings because there will always be budget . . . . Continue Reading »

On the Square Today

Jon A. Shields on debating Roe ’s legacy : In response to recent claims (including my own in First Things ) that Roe aided pro-lifers in unexpected ways, Daniel Williams argues that such views are mistaken. The decision, according to Williams, neither hurt pro-choice momentum nor breathed new . . . . Continue Reading »

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