A Sure Sign of Old Age
by Carl R. TruemanTransgender ideology depends upon a distinction between the genders, even while denying the only grounds for maintaining that distinction. Continue Reading »
Supreme Incoherence: Transgender Ideology and the End of Law
by Jeff ShaferDoes the federal law prohibiting “sex discrimination” forbid us to countenance the category of “sex”—and thus of “sex discrimination”? Can the rule of law survive a yes answer to question one? Continue Reading »
The Body of Evidence
by Carl R. TruemanTransgenderism, rather like abortion, puts the law in a contradictory position on the nature of personhood in our contemporary world. Continue Reading »
Time for Parents to Resist Transgender Activism
by Emily ZinosWith public schools fast becoming incubators of gender ideology, parents need to cast off their fears of entering the fray. Continue Reading »
Gnostic Liberalism
by Robert P. GeorgeThe idea that human beings are non-bodily persons inhabiting non-personal bodies never quite goes away. Although the mainstreams of Christianity and Judaism long ago rejected it, what is sometimes described as “body-self dualism” is back with a vengeance, and its followers are legion. Whether in . . . . Continue Reading »
Transgender Conformity
by Katherine KerstenNova Classical Academy, a K–12 charter school in St. Paul, Minnesota, is the sort of school that most parents seeking a first-rate education for their children can only dream about. Founded in 2003, the school teaches the classical curriculum of grammar, logic, and rhetoric. Students read the . . . . Continue Reading »
Defending Conscience Rights at Hacksaw Ridge and in the HHS Cases
by Matthew KacsmarykFrom the colonial period through the twenty-first century, federal, state, and territorial governments have an unbroken tradition of protecting conscientious objectors who cannot abide the government’s mandate to kill, cut, or medicate another human being. Continue Reading »
We Need to Win the Aesthetic, Not the Argument
by Carl R. TruemanPro-life success is a cause for rejoicing, but it may not offer a paradigm of hope for opponents of the current sexual revolution. Continue Reading »
Burrowing In
by Peter J. LeithartThe next president will have troops of civil rights attorneys poised to enlighten the ignorant masses and to punish states and school districts for treating boys as boys and girls as girls. Continue Reading »
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