This is the second part of a four-part series which began with “What If? What If? Why Shouldn’t?” on Friday, 03-07-2014.
Touchstone (June/July, 2005).
Touchstone 16:7 (September, 2003)
Certain questions tend to come up whenever I teach about natural law. They don’t always come up in words, much less in these words, but they often lurk beneath and between the lines. What if our nature had been different? What if we changed our nature? Why shouldn’t we transcend our nature?
First Things 241 (2014)
If neutralism is impossible, then bias is inevitable. So what am I saying? Should laws and rules and policies embrace bias? Is bias good?
Toleration is a virtue. But it is a puzzling one, because the whole point of it lies in putting up with some things that are immoral, offensive, erroneous, in poor taste, or in some other sense bad.