Greg Forster

Remember the Atlas Shrugged movie from this spring? More than 100,000 copies are sitting on store shelves right now with a title card that reads “ AYN RAND’s timeless novel of courage and self-sacrifice comes to life . . . ” Because we all know Ayn Rand is all about self-sacrifice! . . . . Continue Reading »

My response to Sam Gregg on “Locke, Metaphysics and the Challenge of America” is up. What I’d like to stress is that this is not ultimately an argument about John Locke. It’s an argument about the deep methodological questions involved in critiquing a society from a . . . . Continue Reading »

A nasty shooting war over education is emerging between Education Secretary Arne Duncan and new presidential entrant Rick Perry. Although other issues are in the foreground, the broader backdrop is Duncan’s effort to set himself up as a one-man legislature versus Perry’s ferocious . . . . Continue Reading »

Samuel Gregg has a really great piece on The Public Discourse this morning, deconstructing my qualified defense of Locke here on First Thoughts. ( See also ) This is serious stuff and I’ll be composing a full-dress reply to run over on PD. In the meantime, let me thank Gregg for investing the . . . . Continue Reading »

In the Corner, Glenn Stanton comments on the juvenile snickering in some quarters about Dr. Marcus Bachmann, whose professional practice includes - as one thing among much else - helping people cope with unwanted same-sex desires. There’s no particular reason you would have heard of Dr. . . . . Continue Reading »

My first thought on reading the emerging discussion on David Brooks ’ column is: Obviously Brooks is thinking through the lens of a limited anthropology, but he’s an interlocutor worth engaging. Let’s pull apart some of what it says and see where it leads. For example: the . . . . Continue Reading »

In today’s Journal , Peter Berkowitz comments on the recent Supreme Court decision on selling violent video games to children. He doesn’t say explicitly what side he’s on (if any) but he does come off as much more in sympathy with the dissenters; at any rate he . . . . Continue Reading »

John Locke’s time is past , suggests Sam Gregg in The Public Discourse last week. Social contract theory has been the formative influence on American political thought, and our current debates can be broadly generalized as debates between the two poles of that tradition, with Locke on one end . . . . Continue Reading »

Attention theologians and philosophers: a critique of Augustine’s theology of time helps the school choice movement develop better political strategy . Special bonus: find out what America can learn from beauty queens about the best approach to teaching creation and evolution! . . . . Continue Reading »

Krauthammer’s column today is about immigration, but it’s also about political civility. It makes me wonder if the best way to become truly civil isn’t precisely to stop being “civil” as that concept is now defined, not by becoming uncivil but by striving for a . . . . Continue Reading »