Public Discourse

Public Discourse

Public Discourse is the digital journal associated with the Witherspoon Institute, a nonprofit research organization based in Princeton, New Jersey. Our mission is to improve public awareness of the ethical principles that support free societies by sharing the research and insights of our scholars with a wider audience.

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  • 4 days ago | thepublicdiscourse.com | Marc O. DeGirolami

    Editors’ Note: In recognition of the 100th anniversary of Pierce v. Society of Sisters, this article is published as the third in a three-part series on religious freedom. What can the minority in a democracy reasonably expect from the majority?

  • 1 week ago | thepublicdiscourse.com | Xavier Symons

    Elon Musk’s family life and views on procreation are making the news, including in a recent exposé in the Wall Street Journal interviewing several women who have borne his children. The picture that has emerged is ugly, messy, and weird. This is not just a story about a talented but morally flawed Silicon Valley visionary. Musk’s is an attitude of detached posthuman nihilism that enables him to evade the norms of familial relationships in the pursuit of creating more and better babies.

  • 1 month ago | thepublicdiscourse.com | Patrick Brown

    What did y’all think a working-class realignment meant? Vibes, papers, essays? The conventional wisdom heading into 2024 was that the race between sitting Vice President Kamala Harris and the once and future President Donald Trump was going to be close. Instead, it was a clean sweep for the Trump-Vance campaign—every battleground state swung red, and Republicans even held onto a majority, albeit a historically narrow one, in the House.

  • 1 month ago | thepublicdiscourse.com | John Doherty

    Not long ago, Marxists and feminists called conservativism “patriarchy” as a slander. Now many conservatives embrace the label. The author of Rules for Retrogrades proposes returning to “familial patriarchy” to save civilization.

  • 1 month ago | thepublicdiscourse.com | Edward Feser

    Nowhere do I say, nor would I say, that differing prudential judgments about immigration should be “shielded from objective moral scrutiny.” In no way would I place this area of public policy “outside the realm of things one can objectively morally evaluate.”

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