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The Witherspoon Institute announces its Fall 2020 Seminars

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The Witherspoon Institute is pleased to announce its seminars for Fall 2020 on cultural revolution, philosophy of education, Plato and the meaning of words, Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, beauty & aesthetics, and economics & friendship. Some seminars will be held online, and some will be held in person with appropriate social-distancing measures. We are eager to continue offering opportunities for rigorous discussion and authentic friendship to the Princeton University community.

Find out more about each of our seminars here.

Work of Mark Regnerus continues to make an impact: American Journal of Psychiatry retracts overreaching claims

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The work of the Austin Institute and Mark Regnerus, contributing editor to The Witherspoon Institute’s online journal, Public Discourse, and professor of sociology at UT-Austin, continue to pay dividends in the social science of sex and sexuality. You may be aware that it was Mark’s efforts that led to the retraction of a study about the harmful influence of antigay stigma on the mortality of sexual minorities. Robert P. George wrote about it in the WSJ a year ago. We recently learned that Mark has aided in yet another victory–a “correction” just issued in the American Journal of Psychiatry that tempers the overreaching claims about the mental health benefits of surgery performed on patients with gender dysphoria. He spotted the problems first, late last year in Public Discourse. Other critics followed, offering their complaints to the journal editor, who in turn asked the study’s authors to re-analyze their data. In the end, the surgical benefits vanished, and the surgery even prompted greater anxiety in such patients. This is obvious evidence of how a small number of committed scholars, keeping up pressure on a massive group of pro-LGBT activists, researchers, and journal gatekeepers, continue to yield fruit beyond their numbers.

Sen. Marco Rubio Writes for Public Discourse on Death of George Floyd and Racism in America

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Sen. Marco Rubio published a piece in the Witherspoon Institute’s online journal, Public Discourse, observing,

The murder of Mr. Floyd at the hands of law enforcement officers was an outrageous crime that has shocked this nation. But it would be a mistake to conclude that the unrest of the last two weeks is only about his death or relations with the police.

At its core, this unrest is about the question of what kind of society we are, and what kind of society we want to be.

Read the whole article here.

Public Discourse Welcomes Its New Contributing Editor, Andrew T. Walker

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Andrew T. Walker, Associate Professor of Christian Ethics and Apologetics at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Executive Director and Fellow of the Carl F. H. Henry Institute for Evangelical Engagement, has joined The Witherspoon Institute’s online journal, Public Discourse, as its new contributing editor.

Dr. Walker researches, writes, and speaks about the intersection of Christian ethics and public theology with particular focus in the areas of anthropology, natural law, and church-state studies.

The editor-in-chief of Public Discourse, Ryan T. Anderson, recently interviewed Dr. Walker on how the publication has formed him over the years and his hopes for the future. Read their discussion here!

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