Over at Powerline , Paul Mirengoff makes a sensible argument against Black History Month, echoing calls from an NRO writer. Normally, I’d be at least open to the argument, would sincerely wonder what Shelby Steele would say about it, and would be interested in discussing Mirengoff’s . . . . Continue Reading »
So the Texas State Legislature is considering a law allowing conceal and carry of firearms on the campuses of public schools. Faculty, students, administration, and staff would be eligible to conceal and carry. If the law passes, I’m considering taking the license for myself, even though I . . . . Continue Reading »
So someone just send me this . It portrays me as the southern Stoic gentleman opposed to the Snopesy (or the money-grubbing populist) governor. But the opposition is overdrawn, of course. I don’t think anyone should major in gender studies or most stuff ending in studies either. Still, . . . . Continue Reading »
BY ME (Thanks to Ivan the K for letting me know that I originally mislinked.) . . . . Continue Reading »
Finally, as an example of such vision of substantive goods (as evoked by Roger Scruton, above), let me share a tidbit from an important essay against same-sex marriage (made world famous by the Pope’s high praise) authored by France’s chief Rabbi Gilles Bernheim. I have just . . . . Continue Reading »
(This is a continuation of a post from yesterday; it will make most sense in that context.) When Maggie Gallagher answers John Corvino’s individualist argument for “gay marriage” (in Debating Same-Sex Marriage ), she relies mainly on a good and important argument for man-woman . . . . Continue Reading »
Tom West – who, I want to make clear at the outset, can easily run circles around me in his knowledge of Locke’s writings – does well to remind us of the (now) conservative, pro-family conclusions that Locke draws from his very modern philosophical premises. And these . . . . Continue Reading »
BIG THOUGHTS HERE . . . . Continue Reading »
I have received a good number of emails on Tom West’s friendly criticism of our dogmatically Straussian Locke. Here’s one from our friend Ivan Kenneally: The thread on Locke is a provocative one. I think West is half right—the absence of any epistemological access to natural . . . . Continue Reading »
Last night on Downton Abbey , the Earl of Grantham’s aristocratic vices were shown not only to be threatening the way of life of the people for whom he’s responsible but were the cause of his daughter’s quite unnecessary death. His middle-class son-in-law has been discovering how . . . . Continue Reading »
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