Freedom isn’t just the bare ability to do something; it is the ability to act under the influence of properly functioning cognitive faculties.

The Libertarian Case for Drug Prohibition by Timothy Hsiao  Freedom isn’t just the bare ability to do something; it is the ability to act under the influence of properly functioning cognitive faculties. If you value freedom, then you should oppose the legalization of recreational drugs. Orestes Brownson, Being Catholic, and Being American by Nathan J. Beacom The writings of Orestes Brownson can help contemporary Catholics make sense of the American Founding. Can We Stop Fighting Over Schools? by Charles L. Glenn  Most other nations with advanced levels of universal schooling provide public support to faith-based schools with no evident harm to their social fabric and with considerably less conflict over schooling. The time has come for the United States to adopt principled pluralism as the fundamental and equitable structure of our education system Casualties of a Social, Psychological, and Medical Fad: The Dangers of Transgender Ideology in Medicine by Daniel Payne  Dr. Paul McHugh is optimistic that the ascendency of transgender ideology is a passing fad. Yet the damage that transgender ideology can wreak in even just ten or fifteen years—the hormones, the surgery, the irreversible decisions, the mutilated bodies—is considerable. The Philosophical Contradictions of the Transgender Worldview by Ryan T. Anderson  The thinking of transgender activists is inherently confused and filled with internal contradictions. Activists never acknowledge those contradictions. Instead, they opportunistically rely on whichever claim is useful at any given moment.