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Leon Kass is the Madden-Jewett Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and Professor Emeritus in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.

April 2, 2018|American Citizenship, biotechnology, Facebook, Leading a Worthy Life, Leon Kass, Liberal Arts, marriage, Millennials, Silicon Valley

Leading a Worthy Life in a Scattered Time: A Conversation with Leon Kass

by Leon Kass|

Leon Kass discusses Leading a Worthy Life.

Stuck With Decadence

A discussion with Ross Douthat

Ross Douthat discusses with Richard Reinsch his new book The Decadent Society.

Can the Postmodern Natural Law Remedy Our Failing Humanism?

A discussion with Graham McAleer

Graham McAleer discusses how postmodern natural law can help us think more coherently about human beings and our actions.

Did the Civil Rights Constitution Distort American Politics?

A discussion with Christopher Caldwell

Christopher Caldwell discusses his new book, The Age of Entitlement.

America, Land of Deformed Institutions

A discussion with Yuval Levin

Yuval Levin pinpoints that American alienation and anger emerges from our weak political, social, and religious institutions.

The Just Restraint of the Vicious

For some contemporary criminal justice reformers, devotion to ideology leads to illogical conclusions about human nature and character change.
by Gerard T. Mundy
Too Immature to be Punished?

When I look back on my own life, I think I knew by the age of ten that one should not strangle old ladies in their beds.
by Theodore Dalrymple
A Badge of Discrimination

The British National Health Service has spoken: Wear the badge or declare yourself to be a bigot.
by Theodore Dalrymple
A Judicial Takeover of Asylum Policy?

Thuraissigiam threatens to make both the law and the facts in every petition for asylum—and there are thousands of them—a matter for the courts.
by Thomas Ascik
The Environmental Uncertainty Principle

By engaging in such flagrant projection, the Times has highlighted once again the problem with groupthink in the climate discussion.
by Paul Schwennesen

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