Peter Lawler

tricky reflections here ALSO: Happy Birthday to JOHN PRESNALL! . . . . Continue Reading »

HERE . It, of course, features a long chapter on me that might also have been called Rawls and Transhumanism. . . . . Continue Reading »

Jean wrote this morning. I haven’t gotten her permission to post her astute comments. But I will mention a couple of points: Jean is right that it’s pretty misleading to lump LOCHNER with ROE and DRED SCOTT as substantive due process evildoing. The issue in LOCHNER is something over . . . . Continue Reading »

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So having read Bob’s post and Carl’s very thorough and elegant response, let me offer a somewhat different view on the relationship between the progessive TR and our (new kind of) progressive Justice Anthony Kennedy. So TR and TK are both about constitutional development, that’s . . . . Continue Reading »

Here is Bob’s spirited reponse to all the Teddy bashing we’ve had on this channel: It came as no surprise that my interlocutors in a recent Claremont Institute symposium, following in the tradition of Leo Strauss, are no fans of Theodore Roosevelt. But things went a little far when the . . . . Continue Reading »

So AFTER MIDNIGHT last might, I got emails from those two SEATON BROTHERS—Paul and Gary. Gary sent the good news that MARILYNNE ROBINSON has won the NATIONAL HUMANITIES MEDAL—the same award given (under Republican administrations) to Walker Percy, Tom Wolfe, and Harvey Mansfield. And of . . . . Continue Reading »

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Our friend Ivan is a bit over-the-top here, but there’s a lot to think about. From a Darwinian point of view, it’s better to have kids while you’re young. And student loans (in the context of YOUR EDUCATION in general), become an excuse not to do so. (I’m not exempting . . . . Continue Reading »

Here is a conversation on the Claremont Review site . It’s basically Jean and Scott Yenor (who wrote a great book on the family and modern political philosophy) vs. Bob Patterson (former editor of the impressive journal THE FAMILY IN AMERICA). To repeat myself, I’m with Jean that . . . . Continue Reading »