Leo Strauss for Believers

by Ralph Hancock

Leo Strauss reminds us that Christians are not exempt from the deeply political responsibility of reason. Continue Reading »

30 Jan 2014

Carl’s Rock Songbook #26: The Three Stages of Modernity

by Carl Scott

The Songbook inevitably has to analyze modernity, precisely because it is interested more in what rock reveals about our overall sociological and spiritual situation than it is in rock itself.  So what follows are two organizing posts concerning this.  Here, I’ll quickly lay out my . . . . Continue Reading »

19 Nov 2011

More Darwinian Conservatism and the Whole Human Person

by Austin Stone

Larry Arnhart provides this characteristically astute response to my post below about Darwinian Conservatism. Instead of offering a genuinely postmodern view, he criticizes me for adopting a "distinctly modernist assumption of transcendendalist dualism" that traffics in the . . . . Continue Reading »

11 Dec 2008

Post-Modern Conservatism: A Draft Manifesto (continued)

by Austin Stone

Bowing to relentless and overwhelming demand from postmodern-leaning lovers of truth and virtue waiting somewhere out there in cyberspace, I offer this extended version of the Draft Manifesto from a few weeks ago.  (I include the previously published first 8 points here, so you won’t . . . . Continue Reading »

17 Oct 2008

Background Reading for POMOCONS

by Austin Stone

I have heard your requests made for reading that might provide some background to the ideas I’m working out, and I gladly comply.  I have mentioned Martin Heidegger and Leo Strauss - but the former is almost impossible (and evil, by the way, but also indispensible) and the latter himself . . . . Continue Reading »

26 Sep 2008