The online journal of The Witherspoon Institute. R. J. Snell, Editor-in-Chief. @alex_e_davis, Managing Editor. @RyanTAnd, Founding Editor.
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While Nidal Hasan deserves capital punishment, it would have been wrong to livestream his execution, and Trump was right to reverse that decision. The Church Fathers and St. John Henry Newman show us why, as I explain in an article at @PublicDiscourse thepublicdiscourse.com/2026/…
Here at PD, we are thrilled to welcome Nat Brown as a contributing editor! Nat is a former deputy web editor of Foreign Affairs and former deputy managing editor of National Review. His work has been published in the Washington Examiner and First Things. He brings a wealth of experience to PD and we're so glad to have him. Welcome, Nat!
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My latest @PublicDiscourse on higher ed, where it went wrong, and the prophetic nature of Buckley’s “God and Man at Yale” 75 years later. thepublicdiscourse.com/2026/…
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America's Two Constitutions
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#ConstitutionDay
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In my latest Bookshelf column @PublicDiscourse, I discuss books by @MaryanneWolf_ and @j_amesmarriott — thepublicdiscourse.com/2026/…
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Awfully nice of Joshua Sohn, a progressive-leaning attorney writing from DC, to mention @LeahLibresco, @matthew_loftus, @kathrynlopez, @PatrickDeneen, @AmSolidarity, and myself as helping the pro-life movement chart a path forward in his essay for @PublicDiscourse
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Thanks to @PublicDiscourse for publishing my article
"Connectivity still stirs the human mind to dream of new ways to trade with distant markets, and this can fuel the growth of whole cities—sometimes nearly from scratch, as Dubai [illustrates]."
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"It is with those 'who work especially with their mind' that the development of AI technologies brings into sharper focus the dangers and opportunities for tools to either degrade or enhance human dignity as expressed in work."
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"The gay program, now actually operating as 'queer pride,' is built on an intentionally radical and incoherent anthropology. It cannot cohere because it set out...to challenge the most fundamental truth of being human..." @PublicDiscourse
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There's still plenty of time to enter our essay contest! #youngwriters #youngvoices
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The most interesting piece I've seen yet on Nolan's Odyssey is this one by @beatrixscudeler @PublicDiscourse — thepublicdiscourse.com/2026/…
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'Very tellingly, Nolan’s Odyssey ends not with Odysseus’s triumphant return to rule Ithaca, but with his abdication to Telemachus and his decision to go on a self-imposed exile with Penelope to expiate his guilt about the war.'
My review of the Odyssey for @PublicDiscourse 👇🏼
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In an overstimulating world, attention-grabbers shape the narrative... The Attention Economy has us in its grips.
"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
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There’s a way between the rule of an unaccountable bureaucracy and the reign of a king: constitutional government.
My latest, on Trump v. Slaughter and the removal power, at @PublicDiscourse:
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AI and tech are on everyone's minds right now. Here is a short playlist for your commute this week: PD authors weigh in on the many ways AI and tech are reshaping the human mind and soul:
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Calling all high school students! Submit your essay to the @publicdiscourse Essay Contest for a chance to be published and win an honorarium. Link in bio.
