Martin Sheen—known to be a left handed hitter politically—has a radio ad out against the assisted suicide legalization initiative, I-1000. This is important because despite the broad and diverse coalition against legalizing assisted suicide that cuts diagonally across the nation’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Commenter Paulie wants to know. Well, there’s no denying that postmodern theory is intimately intertangled with the "hermeneutic of suspicion." Ricoeur helped us level against Habermasian liberal thinkers the complaint that ideologies could become so clever that what appeared to be . . . . Continue Reading »
P.J. O’Rourke at the Los Angeles Times offers a hilarious yet meaningful reflection on his encounter with cancer and how the experience has given him a healthy appreciation of death: I looked death in the face. All right, I didn’t. I glimpsed him in a crowd. I’ve been diagnosed . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s something I say in "Natural Law, Our Constitution, and Our Democracy,’ MODERN AMERICA AND THE LEGACY OF THE FOUNDING (ed. Pestritto and West, 2007): . . . in Locke’s ‘Of Property, the frequent references to God disppear once money is invented—with . . . . Continue Reading »
Arnold Schwarzenegger, who alas is my governor, was elected to produce fiscal responsibility in California. Well, that didn’t work out: This year alone, we are about $17 billion in the hole and counting.That aside, Schwarzenneger first violated his fiscal responsibility raison d’ etre . . . . Continue Reading »
Contra Ivan, Nick Troester levels a miniature defense of Locke. There is definitely an ‘anti-natural law’ aspect of Locke which actually remains fairly powerfully Aristotelian. If Aristotle was right that the political relationship was fundamentally different in kind from other sorts of . . . . Continue Reading »
Alan Jacobs over at the American Scene has asked whether it’s really true that all libertarians believe human nature is fundamentally good. He seems to think one can pull off being a libertarian who believes in original sin—"you just have to believe that our inevitable corruption . . . . Continue Reading »
If you’re as impressed as I am that so many non-insane people are not only willing to identify themselves publicly as Pomocons but cogently explain how and why, you may enjoy a trip to your local library or Vastly Anonymous But Clean and Convenient Megachain Bookstore. If so, add these to the . . . . Continue Reading »
Now available online for your listening pleasure: First Things features editor R.R. Reno interviews two authors featured in our October issue, Bruce D. Porter and Gerald R. McDermott, on their answers to the question “Is Mormonism Christian?” Both interviews can be heard below, and the . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s something from my "Christian American Political Realism (in CHRISTIANITY AND POWER POLITICS TODAY, ed.. E. Patterson (2008): "As Harvey Mansfield writes, our ‘manly’ desire to display our nobility as indispensably important, transcendent beings is . . . . Continue Reading »
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