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Ethics of Leadership and Ethics of Teaching

Kevin L. Flannery

John Keown spoke recently about the ethics of nuclear weapons. In his lecture, “The Pope and the Bomb: The Ethics of Nuclear Deterrence,” Keown argued that the aiming of...

Voting Conscience

Kevin L. Flannery

Law’s Virtues: Fostering Autonomy and Solidarity in American Society
 by cathleen kaveny
 georgetown, 304 pages, $29.95 Emerging from that end of the political spectrum grown rather short lately on...

Roger’s Versions

Kevin L. Flannery

The Philosopher on Dover Beach: Essays by Roger Scruton St. Martin’s Press, 350 pages, $24.95 Unusually for a philosopher trained in the Anglo-American “analytic” tradition, Roger Scruton has read...