Peter Lawler

HERE! I found the 40-year-old virgin impossible to believe, because he wasn’t obviously repulsive and had the burning desire to be devirginized. But the virginal and beautiful Olympic track star at 29 has a great story to tell about taking herself seriously in a world where everything is . . . . Continue Reading »

Let me begin by expressing my admiration for all the fine recent posts. They all deserve a much wider audience. One way to get that, Kate remind us, is to click the facebook like when you read a post. That even goes for the author of the post. Carl’s musical knowledge would charm just about . . . . Continue Reading »

The fabulous blogger Walter Russell Mead observes that studies show that the more likable candidate almost always win. That’s why Bush the younger, for example, beat Gore. So far the president is more much liked than Romney. One reason for that is that we don’t know Mitt very well as a . . . . Continue Reading »

BIG THOUGHTS HERE . . . . . Continue Reading »

BIG THOUGHTS HERE . . . . . Continue Reading »

BIG THOUGHTS by a traitor here. . . . . Continue Reading »

Here’s what Daniel Larison says at THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE. He’s not completely wrong: The claim about American’s capacity to project power is an empirical one, and it is informed by the experience of the last decade. Many, if not all, realists acknowledge that the U.S. is in . . . . Continue Reading »

A BIG THINKING EXPERIMENT BY ME. So I’m working with Marc Guerra on Descartes, Locke, and Darwin and the modern science of virtue, and the result will be many annoying thought experiments such as this one. . . . . Continue Reading »

Here’s an email I got on Jim’s path-breaking article. I’ve added, very quickly, a couple of my own comments: It seems the one main lacuna in his argument is that he has no conception of heresy. So, for example, the intrusion of Hegelian ideas in the Social Gospel imperialists is . . . . Continue Reading »

Our Jim has the lead essay in the new journal AMERICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT. That journal is not as good as PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICAL SCIENCE, but it is worth reading. Jim’s essay is actually quite innovative and brilliantly thought-provoking. Question raised by Jim: Does American have not only . . . . Continue Reading »