Why can't our opponents be reasonable? In his new book, “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion,” social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of morality in our rapid and automatic moral intuitions.

The author argues that the gradual legalization of gay marriage can only strengthen the institution it wishes to expand.

Jonathan Rauch's Bradley Lecture.

Liberals love building highways and bridges, but loathe making it affordable to drive on them. This is just a small example of the Catch-22 liberalism has found itself in.

At this event, panelists discussed the expansion of government in the United States.

One of the few issues on which opinion has moved left over the last few years is same-sex marriage. Why? One reason is probably that as people learn that friends and relatives are gay, they become more sympathetic to gay rights. But increasing support for same-sex marriage causes problems for politicians.

Recent writings by the “new atheists”—Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens—present an ideal occasion for Michael Novak to return to his deepest philosophical passion: exploring a reasoned approach to questions about the nature and destiny of human beings.

Novak begins No One Sees God...

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Charles Murray, author of Losing Ground and coauthor of The Bell Curve, introduces his latest book, In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State (AEI Press, March 28, 2006)....