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The vision of paired authorities, each constrained within its proper sphere, did more than offer a tidy theological symmetry. It carried decisive consequences for how secular power itself would be conceived, limited, and made answerable to a higher law.

We should dedicate part of our political efforts over the next twenty-five years to restoring the original understanding of the freedom of the press in American culture and constitutional law.

There is no guarantee that the bioethics of our future will live up to America’s founding promises and insights.

All things considered, one has to wonder if Huxley wasn’t more a prophet than a novelist.

thepublicdiscourse.com/2026/06/101310/ Perhaps something in the American tradition could help us Europeans out of the lurch: the ability to change, to realize what had been wrongly done and understand that they urgently have to undo it.

America’s Two Constitutions thepublicdiscourse.com/2026/07/101351/

thepublicdiscourse.com/2026/06/101296/ Two hundred and fifty years since our nation’s founding, the public conscience has begun to replace its fidelity to inalienable rights and religious freedom with a state-enforced commitment to radical human autonomy.

Immigration and the Declaration at 250 thepublicdiscourse.com/2026/06/101342/

"Just a person who's lived it, who's escaped it, and who's trying to pull other girls off the conveyor belt leading them gently and quietly to destruction." Grateful to @alex_e_davis for her generous review of GIRLS®: fairerdisputations.org/review-of-girl…

Many thanks to @FairerSexFD for publishing my positive review of GIRLS by @freyaindiaa — fairerdisputations.org/review-of-girl…

Recovering the First Amendment—and a Fuller Conception of Rights and Human Nature thepublicdiscourse.com/2026/06/101333/

thepublicdiscourse.com/2026/06/101275/ What unions need is more internal flexibility. Workers need a way to voice their displeasure with union politics. And if voice isn’t enough, they need a realistic way out.

Thrilled that @FairerSexFD included my piece on female fertility and athleticism from @PublicDiscourse!

Bioethics at America250 thepublicdiscourse.com/2026/06/101323/

thepublicdiscourse.com/2026/06/101268/ Perhaps the greatest lesson we can learn from the Olympian mothers is that women are more than their bodies, and that we are all called to integrated human excellence, body and soul.

thepublicdiscourse.com/2026/05/101104/ As a woman born in 1997—right on the cusp of the Millennial/Zoomer generational divide—who writes about culture for a living, I’ve not been able to overlook the latest cultural trend: men who yearn.

My latest for @PublicDiscourse: “Perhaps the greatest lesson we can learn from the Olympian mothers is that women are more than their bodies, and that we are all called to integrated human excellence, body and soul.”

Are These Truths Really Self-Evident? A Q&A with Rémi Brague thepublicdiscourse.com/2026/06/101310/

thepublicdiscourse.com/2026/05/101091/ Casual war gives politicians the best of all worlds—they don’t have to make a careful and deliberate case that war is necessary and justified; they can gain all the deference and unrestricted power that comes from wartime.

thepublicdiscourse.com/2026/06/101259/ Here’s what our editors are reading this summer.