Peter Lawler

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So I’m going to be speaking at Hampden-Sydney Thursday night at 7:30 on what remains my view on the change we can actually see. I still see two basic Lockean movements against BIG GOVERNMENT: The first is the implosion of all the safety nets—from pensions and unions and tenure to . . . . Continue Reading »

So someone just send me this . It portrays me as the southern Stoic gentleman opposed to the Snopesy (or the money-grubbing populist) governor. But the opposition is overdrawn, of course. I don’t think anyone should major in gender studies or most stuff ending in studies either. Still, . . . . Continue Reading »

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I have received a good number of emails on Tom West’s friendly criticism of our dogmatically Straussian Locke. Here’s one from our friend Ivan Kenneally: The thread on Locke is a provocative one. I think West is half right—the absence of any epistemological access to natural . . . . Continue Reading »

Last night on Downton Abbey , the Earl of Grantham’s aristocratic vices were shown not only to be threatening the way of life of the people for whom he’s responsible but were the cause of his daughter’s quite unnecessary death. His middle-class son-in-law has been discovering how . . . . Continue Reading »

1. First off, I call your attention to Carl’s fine statement in the thread. It’s the outline of the big book of Carlism that would be the equivalent of the big book of Ralphism (Hancockism) that appeared not so long ago. Carl needs to turn that into a separate post. 2. Next, I want to . . . . Continue Reading »

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So it turns out that Tom West (who vindicated the Founders, among other things) reads postmodern conservative. He sent this note, which cries out for your comments: Peter, You keep repeating the same mistakes about Locke on your blog. You really need to read my article on “The Ground of . . . . Continue Reading »