Mortimer Adler on Plato, Legal Positivism, and Natural Law
Via George Anastaplo’s “In Re Antonin Scalia”, wherein we see Scalia as a legal positivist and no natural lawyer, more a “modern” than a Catholic conservative. But first, the great Mortimer Adler on...
View ArticleMe On Conservatism
Strictly speaking, “conservatism” only plays for a tie. In American conservatism, there’s a bit of revanchism, but only so much of a rollback is even possible: overturn Roe and the question reverts to...
View ArticleThe Limited Moral Case Against Wealth Inequality
Submitted for comment, the below is a portion of a long piece I’ve been working on for some time on the role of government in the modern U.S. economy, including its role in addressing the limited...
View ArticleLiberalism: A Post-Mortem
I lost half of yesterday afternoon obsessing over early election returns, the evening hours brooding about the GOP defeat, and much of this morning so far catching up on post-mortems. I’m providing...
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The Cliff: Fake Poll, Real Quote
“Look, if you taxed every person in successful small business making over $250,000 at a hundred percent, it’d only run the government for 98 days. If everybody who paid income taxes last year,...
View ArticleThe Fiscal Cliff and the Showdown Between Redistribution and Property Rights
…But first, Milton Friedman agreeing with a socialist: “One of the reasons why I am in favor of less government is because when you have more government, industrialists take it over, and the two...
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The Doomsday Provision
[Originally posted at the main page.] Why do we have the Second Amendment? Wait, let’s back up. Why do we have the First Amendment? Speech is important to happiness and flourishing, we can all...
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The Second Inaugural’s Attempt to Re-Found America
While repeatedly announcing his fidelity to America’s founding principles, President Obama’s second inaugural announces a very different vision of America. Near the beginning of his speech, the...
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Is Progressivism a Child of the Founding? Does It Matter?
In a recent interview with James L. Buckley at Uncommon Knowledge, Peter Robinson posed the following question: By the time I came along, the New Deal had been enacted. But you came along beforehand....
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The NSA and Privacy: Why Conservatives Should Not Be Sanguine
Defending the NSA’s program that collects information about the American public’s phone calls and emails, President Obama offered this bit of doublespeak: Well, in the end, and what I’ve said, and I...
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