Way to pick the spiciest line from the whole intro. 🤣

'Juridicalization takes over the very self-knowledge of the individual; for once I am prevailed upon to see myself as a bearer of rights, a living demand on others’ recognition, I quickly forget to see myself as an effective agent.' -Oliver O'Donovan, The Disappearance of Ethics

Can't wait to get my hands on one of these!

This is a compelling, common sense essay from Clare Morell and Brad Littlejohn about how both individuals and public officials should respond to the proliferation (and, increasingly, imposition) of smart phones into nearly every corner of our society.

Our Spring issue is now online! Featuring Dean Woodley Ball on regulating AI, Senator Marco Rubio on targeted industrial policy, Brad Littlejohn and Clare Morell on escaping the tyranny of smartphones, and much more. Happy reading! nationalaffairs.com

In just 17 years smartphones have gone from science-fiction to social passport. Parents are pushing back, but the market seems rigged.

Only forceful public policy can protect consumer choice--and our kids, Clare Morell and I write in National Affairs:
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How is it that Christians now shrug their shoulders in the face of vices that were not so long ago not merely immoral, but illegal?

My latest piece for WORLD, follows Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸 in calling evangelicals to recover the language of virtue and vice:
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This looks absolutely fascinating!
Would be there in a heartbeat if I could.

“Let not him who straps on his armor boast like him who takes it off,” runs the wonderful proverb. Until today’s NatCons or “realignment conservatives” can boast a long record of political successes, they should be slow to pooh-pooh those who can.

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'Fusionism, then, may have a bright future, but only if it ditches its confusing name. Between the partisans of individual liberty and the partisans of public virtue, there may often enough be overlap of practical goals, but never a fusion of fundamental goals.'

FUSION: In the Tradition of Liberty

Excellent words of wisdom from Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸 here. I think that in the age of social media, which relentlessly blurs the boundaries between personal and professional, it's easy for all of us to lose sight of these common-sense principles. I know I have at times.

This rule will suffice to decide all doubts about the union of natures in Christ: Between the two natures there is often a cooperation, always an association, but never any mutual participation by which the properties of the one are infused into the other
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