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Weโ€™re All Rousseauians Now

Rodney Howsare

The relationship between Catholicism and liberal democracy has been, is and will always be a complex one. To say that the founding fathers of Liberal political thought were less...

Hating the Sinners at Penn State

Rodney Howsare

Modernity amounts to the gradual but steady emancipation of the political sphere from the religious sphere. This begins in America with simple non-establishment, but has grown into a more...

A Dangerous Freedom

Rodney Howsare

I have no wish to pile on the infamous Canadian couple who recently made headlines when they decided not to reveal the sex of their child in order not...