Peter Lawler

BIG THOUGHTS HERE . . . . Continue Reading »

!. So, as you can see on the thread below about PHILOSOPHICAL SECTARIANISM, the blog is pretty good way of learning about philosophy. The conversation is enhanced by the fact that you can read (or not just hear) what others have to say and take your sweet time before responding. Please join in. The . . . . Continue Reading »

1. So H.T., in the Ivan the K thread below, says that the writings of Leo Strauss are “utterly trivial.” And he so certain he’s right that he says that the burden is on others to prove him wrong. But “we Straussians” (even we lapsed Straussians) shouldn’t be . . . . Continue Reading »

BIG THOUGHTS HERE . . . . Continue Reading »

Ivan the K has a lot to say. . . . . Continue Reading »

So the blog is dead, says THE NEW REPUBLIC , ANDREW SULLIVAN, etc. Spontaneous emanations have moved mainly, of course, to TWITTER. And so many blogs are now really magazines or daily journals or whatever—see LAW AND LIBERTY, THE IMAGINATIVE CONSERVATIVE, MINDING THE CAMPUS, PHILANTHROPY . . . . Continue Reading »

. . . for winning the BRADLEY PRIZE. Someone is to be praised for giving the award to someone who’s actually up and coming, and to someone who thinks outside (in some ways) the Bradley box. You would think the various potential Republican candidates would be lined up around the block hoping . . . . Continue Reading »

The April-June edition of America’s leading journal of political science—PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICAL SCIENCE—is out. There’s a symposium on the retirement of Father James Schall (who was America’s best teacher of political science) and articles on Roberto . . . . Continue Reading »

Some postmodern yet conservative thoughts by ME here , with a link to a good article by our friend Sam Goldman. . . . . Continue Reading »

So Mary reminds us of the seemingly bad news that the demographic “crisis” has made welfare states worldwide unsustainable. The good news, in her opinion, is that the welfare state has the main cause of the erosion of proper responsibility for and dependence on the family. Maybe . . . . Continue Reading »