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January 2014

January 01, 2014

Your predictions for 2014

Happy New Year's! It's time to look ahead on the year to come and to...

December 2013

December 23, 2013

Corporate assaults on freedom

When we think of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and other civil liberties, we...

November 2013

November 27, 2013

“They know not what they do”

We just celebrated the last Sunday of the Church Year--some call it the Sunday of...

November 26, 2013

Four Dangerous Ideas

Hear them all (from Dan Savage, Germaine Greer, Peter Hitchens, and Hanna Rosin). HT: Aaron...

November 22, 2013

Happy Lewis/Huxley/Kennedy day!

Today is the 50th anniversary of the death of C. S. Lewis, John F. Kennedy,...

November 19, 2013

Two kinds of libertarianism

A writer who goes by the nom de plume "Hamilton" says that both Republican and...

October 2013

October 16, 2013

Homosexuaity as a social construct

Michael W. Hannon reminds us that postmodernist philosopher Michel Foucault, himself a homosexual, has maintained...

October 08, 2013

Self-interest vs. ideology

Is it better in the realm of politics to stand on principle or to pursue...

August 2013

August 27, 2013

The Lutheran roots of Radical Orthodoxy

Not long ago we posted about the theological and philosophical movement known as Radical Orthodoxy,...

August 20, 2013

Triumph of the Will

In my book Postmodern Times, I write about how the will has replaced reason in...

August 19, 2013

The Chris Christie path vs. the Rand Paul path

Washington Post political columnist Chris Cillizza has written an interesting column saying that the Republican...

August 16, 2013

Lack of belief as an identity

Brendan O'Neill himself does not believe in God, but he has written a piece entitled...

August 14, 2013

The Six Types of Atheists

Christians have their different theologies. Conservatism comprises a number of different ideologies. Now studies are...

August 12, 2013

Radical Orthodoxy?

What are we to make of "radical orthodoxy"? This isn't people who are orthodox getting...

August 09, 2013

Is God different than we are?: The ontological controversy

Consider this quote from Timothy George, in our recent Christianity without the Atonement post: The problem...

July 2013

July 26, 2013

Why today’s political ideologies are pretty much the same

James Kalb has published an article that explains (1) why Democrats and Republicans (also Libertarians,...

July 23, 2013

The First Amendment is going out of style

According to a recent study, more and more Americans--on some issues a majority of them--no...

July 15, 2013

Edmund Burke’s version of conservatism

The (liberal) E. J. Dionne discusses Edmund Burke: The First Conservative by British lawmaker Jesse...

July 05, 2013

Christian apologist in the news

The Chronicle of Higher Education has a remarkably sympathetic article on William Lane Craig, the...

July 04, 2013

Truths no longer self-evident

Part of the genius of the Declaration of Independence, whose passage we celebrate today, is...

July 01, 2013

Do conservatives need to be Catholics?

According to some circles, in order to be a consistent conservative, you really need to...

May 2013

May 23, 2013

Why relativism leads to totalitarianism

I'd like to spin off from our reflection a comment Lars Walker made, as we...

May 09, 2013

Our partnership with the dead, the living, and the unborn

Peter Wehner quotes British journalist Charles Moore, reviewing Jesse Norman's new biography of the 18th...

May 01, 2013

Anti-human philosophies

In my book Modern Fascism, I explore the way various still-respectable strains of modern and...

May 01, 2013

Workers of the world, it’s your day

This is the first of May, celebrated as a spring festival in many cultures as...

April 2013

April 30, 2013

Lutheran libertarians

I keep running into conservative, confessional Lutherans (including on this blog) who, in their political...

April 19, 2013

Chrysostom predicts the 21st century

Thanks to Bob Miller for showing me this quotation from John Chrysostom (c. 347-407) from...

February 2013

February 20, 2013

Unchecked righteousness

Charles Lane of the Washington Post comments on the electric car fiasco, discussing the multiple...

February 07, 2013

The new left’s doctrine of “repressive tolerance”

It has long been observed that advocates of tolerance can be quite intolerant when it...

February 06, 2013

Liberals are not relativists (unfortunately)

Conservative intellectual and Princeton Professor Robert George points out that liberals are not relativists at...