Thomas More Institute

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What do we mean by 'A Secular Society'? - Neil Addison

In his contribution to a seminar entitled 'Religious Rights in a Secular Society', Neil Addison, barrister, explores the extent to which Britain can and should be branded 'a secular society'.

© ReligionLaw.co.uk

The Welfare State and the Meaning of Life - Greg Forster

In response to Charles Murray's 2009 Irving Kristol Lecture, it is here argued that only a moral perspective can oppose socialism while affirming legitimate state functions

© ThePublicDiscourse.com

Nations, Liberalism, and Science - Peter Augustine Lawler

Being a political being – part of a polis or nation – is part of the truth, though not the whole or the highest truth, about being who we are.

© The New Atlantis (Washington)

We Can't Let The Family Die - Kathy Gyngell

Successive governments are to blame for the demise of the traditional family. It will take a brave politician to save it now, says Kathy Gyngell.

© The Telegraph (London)

The Happiness Of The People - Charles Murray

A controversial American critique of the European model of social democracy, drawing on neuroscience and genetics.

© American Enterprise Institute (Washington)

Morality and Public Space - Roger Scruton

Decorum is not just an optional addition to the public sphere: it is the sine qua non of its existence.

© Standpoint Magazine (London)

John Rawls: On My Religion - Joshua Cohen and Thomas Nagel

How Rawls's political philiosophy was influenced by his religion.

© The Times Literary Supplement (London)

The Persistence of Ideology - Theodore Dalrymple

Ideologists remain with us. Grand ideas still drive history. Distinctions to be made.

'Theodore Dalymple' is the pen name of Anthony Daniels, a reitred psychiatrist who has written widely about culture, art, politics, education and medicine. A former prison doctor, he has witnessed the effects of drug use and other social pathologies on the lower rungs of society. He recently spoke at the Thomas More Institute on Our Culture and the Frivolity of Evil.

© The City Journal (New York)

The New Humanism - Roger Scruton

Old and new humanisms in Britain and the British Humanist Association's advertising on buses.

© The American Spectator (Virginia)

Putting Man Before Descartes - John Lukacs

A senior historian argues that human knowledge is personal and participant, placing us at the centre of the universe.

© The American Scholar (Washington)