In reponse to excellent questions and insights regarding my previous post, I’ve decided to offer a sequel. While Jim is certainly right that the whole of the Enlightenment can’t be reduced to its anti-religious premises, and there are surely important thinkers who don’t fit . . . . Continue Reading »
Much of the early modern project of mass Enlightenment was based on the dogmatic rejection of religious belief as the benighted detritus of pre-scientific consciousness. Similarly, even those who offered foundational critiques of Enlightenment principles during what Philipe Beneton and Chantal . . . . Continue Reading »
On the main page of CULTURE 11, Michael Brendan Dougherty has written an incisive if obvious criticism of the excellent TV show MAD MEN: It’s not a nostalgic or even balanced look at the greatness and misery of the white and prosperous urban American early . . . . Continue Reading »
When James t ells you to read Rorty , he’s not telling you to follow Matt Yglesias in reading the wrong part of Rorty . I’ve written before about Rorty’s nutty philosophy of language . While I won’t go as far as Richard Weaver in saying that nominalism is the root cause of . . . . Continue Reading »
On the main page today there is a symposium on what might benefit/damage Sarah Palin most in tonight’s debate. But what if she fails to take our advice? Well, thanks to the wonders of modern technology, there are ways of making her talk (the way we’d prefer) in the virtual world, . . . . Continue Reading »
What is a Postmodern Conservative view of economics? While a true postmodern conservatism is cognizant of the power of markets and the great advantages of the prosperity it generates (and the reliable incompetence of government in providing regulatory supervision), it is also aware of . . . . 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 »
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 »
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 »
Both Will and Helen, right here on this blog, have instructively discussed the difficulties associated with the often promiscuous assignment and declaration of rights in political discourse today. If we look at the American founding narrowly from the perspective of its Lockean influence, . . . . Continue Reading »
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