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Structural Realism Has No Clothes

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What is remarkable is that, despite decades of scholarship and change, today’s structural realists have revised or changed almost none of their views.

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Modernity’s Projects and the Loss of Human Dignity

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Remi Brague shows how the modern person has made the human rather than nature the measure of all things.

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Ordered Liberty and the Demands of Law

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Self-governing people make—design, craft, and promulgate—law to govern their own and others’ choices and actions.

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Pierre Manent on Machiavelli, Luther, and the Eclipse of the Natural Law

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We go off track when we conceive human rights as representing freedom, and the natural law as representing oppression.

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What Are the Real Fault Lines Dividing Americans?

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Our most bitter political disagreements are often more symbolic than substantive.

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Championing Mankind at the Expense of Real Human Beings

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Daniel Mahoney on why substituting “the love of Humanity for the love of God” has had such inhumane consequences.

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The Road to Compromise

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This book makes an excellent case that we can better protect LGBT rights without forcing citizens to choose between their job and their religious faith.

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The Constitutional “Moments” You Can Believe In

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Did the apparent losers—Anti-Federalists, Andrew Johnson, and Barry Goldwater—impede the full development of our constitutional tradition?

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A Compelling and Compassionate Book about Epilepsy

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Our knowledge of the human brain is limited, but neuroscientist Suzanne O’Sullivan’s observation of her patients yields astute insights.

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Andrew Roberts Takes the Measure of the “Populist” Aristocrat, Churchill

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Yes, there is something new to be learned about Winston Churchill, and it's in the new 1,105-page biography by Andrew Roberts.

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