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December 2014

December 04, 2014

In Defense of Looting

Willie Osterweil (a white punk rocker) has written a defense of the looting in Ferguson,...

December 02, 2014

The Pope and the Koch brothers

Philanthropists John and Carol Saeman explain why they support both Pope Francis's concern for the...

November 2014

November 26, 2014

Postmodern riots

Back in August, a police officer shot a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri. According to...

October 2014

October 20, 2014

Liberty and Equality

In the times of the Greek democracy, the Roman republic, the American founding, and most...

October 09, 2014

The Catholic debate over liberal society

Rod Dreher describes what happened at a conference sponsored by First Things on the future...

September 2014

September 25, 2014

Vocation and Epistemology

More and more Christians are discovering, or re-discovering, the doctrine of vocation, and the richness...

September 09, 2014

The space between the individual and the state

Rep. Paul Ryan (R, Wisconsin), in his new book entitled The Way Forward, discusses "the...

September 04, 2014

Is democracy for everybody?

American political theory tends to believe that democracy is based on universal human values and...

August 2014

August 27, 2014

Christianity’s relationship of opposition

The Orthodox Rod Dreher, who quoted Bonhoeffer in an essay on Christians separating themselves from...

August 20, 2014

The Third Form of Atheism

In responding to a Contemporary Christian musician who came out as gay, saying that she...

August 14, 2014

Are freedom and democracy obsolete?

The Prime Minister of Hungary has said what many people around the world have been...

August 11, 2014

The political roots of atheism

Atheists are always invoking science, but notice how often their arguments and rhetoric use political...

June 2014

June 27, 2014

A Christian case against Natural Law

As we posted earlier, many Christians are approaching moral issues in terms of natural law...

June 26, 2014

Natural Law reconsidered

Natural law as a grounding for morality is basic to Roman Catholic ethics, though it...

June 16, 2014

Catholic, Calvinist, and Libertarian

David Brat, the Virginia economics professor who overthrew House Majority leader Eric Cantor in the...

May 2014

May 23, 2014

Natural law vs. nominalism

Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon, an Orthodox priest, gives a lucid explanation of the difference between...

May 23, 2014

Anti-American conservatism?

Conservative think-tanker Peter Wehner cites recent speeches by Wayne La Pierre, Ben Carson, and Michelle...

May 22, 2014

Putin as conservative?

The word "conservative" means different things in the United States and Europe. American conservatives tend...

May 19, 2014

Maximum wage

Journalist Michael J. Totten visits Havana to see how things are going in still-Communist Cuba:...

April 2014

April 29, 2014

Adolescent Arguments

In the context of an article criticizing President Obama, George Will says that the president...

April 18, 2014

Even secular humanism depends on Christianity

Theo Hobson, in the British Spectator, critiques the New Atheist insistence that we can have...

April 14, 2014

Totalitarian discourse

Charles Krauthammer gives the name for handling disagreements by silencing and punishing those who hold...

March 2014

March 28, 2014

Defining dissent as violence

First you define the expression of ideas that you disagree with as a form of...

March 24, 2014

“National Bolshevism”: Russia’s new ideology

Vladimir Putin's speech annexing the Crimea echoes the language of a new political ideology being...

February 2014

February 12, 2014

Conservative liberalism vs. progressive liberalism

Edmund Burke is considered the father of modern conservatism, while his contemporary Thomas Paine is...

February 10, 2014

Pro-American vs. Anti-American conservatives

Political theorist Patrick J. Deneen notes two different and conflict schools among Roman Catholic conservatives: ...

January 2014

January 16, 2014

Policy lessons from the Beatles

The Beatles are hailed as icons of the Sixties counter-culture. But in a lot of...

January 10, 2014

Reducing religion & morality to what is “useful”

More from Daniel Schwindt on de Tocqueville, this time about how Americans--because of their rationalism...

January 09, 2014

American rationalism and individualism

Alexis de Tocqueville, writing in the early days of the republic, was one of the...

January 07, 2014

Religious freedom vs. human rights?

The rise of religion globally threatens human rights, according to British academic Stephen Hopgood in...