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Dear Friend of the Witherspoon Institute,
Welcome to the first issue of our new, seasonal newsletter. Here you can find short news items about our fellows and recent activities, links to announcements on our web page, links to select articles from our online journal Public Discourse, and links to other articles of note by our staff and fellows.
If you do not wish to receive this letter, you may unsubscribe at the bottom of this email, though we encourage you to read on.
The Institute sends best wishes to all those who recently celebrated Chanukah and to all who will celebrate Christmas soon. A prosperous New Year to all!
Faithfully,
Luis E. Tellez
President
The Witherspoon Institute
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 Highlight articles from Public Discourse
(Now publishing Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)Swastikas and Burning Crosses
Hadley Arkes
Why the First Amendment does not protect certain kinds of speech that are by their very nature harmful according to the logic of human language. The Other F-WordJohn FinnisA defense of the personal dignity of unborn children and a criticism of the attitude implied in speaking of "the moral status of the fetus." Adapted from a talk at a recent conference on abortion at Princeton University.
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Witherspoon Around the Web
What Is Marriage?
Sherif Girgis, Robert P. George, and Ryan T. Anderson
Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy
The principled case for why marriage must be the exclusive union of one man and one woman.
To the Tea Partiers: End Imperialism; Take the Money Back,
Luis Tellez The Daily Caller
On the need for more fidelity to the principle of subsidiarity in the fiscal and monetary policies of modern governments. The debut public article of Luis Tellez, President of the Witherspoon Institute.
The Generation That Can't Move On Up,
W. Bradford Wilcox and Andrew Cherlin The Wall Street Journal
On the growing divide in marital and religious practice in America between those with a college education and those without one.
Religious Respect and Civility a Two-Way Street,
Jennifer Bryson and Robert P. George The Philadelphia Inquirer On the need for respect in the Ground-Zero mosque controversy both for the principle of religious freedom and for the psychological wounds of victims of the September 11th attacks.Back to Table of Contents
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Dr. Matthew Franck Joins the Institute
Dr. Matthew Franck arrived at the Witherspoon Institute in July as the Director of the Center for Religion and the Constitution. He is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Radford University in Virginia where he taught constitutional law, American politics, and political philosophy from 1989 to 2010. For more information on Dr. Franck and his accomplishments, please click here.
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William H. Jeynes Named Senior Fellow
The Witherspoon Institute has named Professor William H. Jeynes one of its Senior Fellows. Jeynes is a Professor of Education at California State University at Long Beach. He holds graduate degrees from Harvard University and the University of Chicago. For more information on his accomplishments, please click here.
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Haldane Made Chairman of Royal Institute
The prestigious Royal Institute of Philosophy of Great Britain has elected Senior Fellow John Haldane as its new Chairman. For details, please click here. Back to Table of Contents
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George Awarded Canterbury Medal
The Becket Fund has awarded Senior Fellow Robert P. George the Canterbury Medal for the defense of conscience and religious liberty. For details, please click here.Back to Table of Contents
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The 2010 Summer Seminars
At the Moral Foundations of the Law Seminar the Witherspoon Institute was honored to host as a guest speaker Judge Diane Sykes, a sitting member of the United States Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
Finally, please keep an eye on our website for announcements about the 2011 Summer Seminars.
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Conscience Protection Task Force Meets
The Center for Religion and the Constitution's Task Force on Conscience Protection, headed by Prof. Helen Alvaré (George Mason University Law School; she is also a Senior Fellow of the Institute) met in Princeton in early June 2010, spending about eight hours over the course of two days identifying legal and philosophical questions deserving closer study and analysis, including ways to understand conscience as part of the common good rather than as a field of adversarial politics. For a closer look at the kinds of questions being deliberated by the task force, please click here to read an article by Professor Alvaré on the new federal health care law .
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Monetary Reform Consultations
Deficits, bankruptcies, and bailouts: the financial news today might not inspire confidence about the fiscal soundness of the global economy. The Witherspoon Institute, however, has been thinking about the deeper issues behind our economic problems for some time now through a series of conferences beginning in 2006.
On November 3rd and December 15th, the Institute brought together scholars and experts on monetary policy at two open consultations called Human Flourishing, the Economy, and Monetary Reform. These gatherings represented our latest attempt to combine insights from philosophy, historical reflection, economic theory, and practical public policy, focusing particularly on the question of the fitness and practicality of some kind of reform of currency.
We are hopeful that these discussions will open the way for future, larger social debates to effect substantive reforms. For details, please click here.
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The Witherspoon Institute is a 501(c)(3) non-profit. Donations to it can be made by mail-in check or online by credit card or a PayPal account. For instructions, please click here.Back to Table of Contents
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