Peter Lawler

. . . That underrated community likes my view that Darwinian natural rights is an oxymoron. This post is double-down shameless self-promotion, insofar as it also includes a way of getting to an article of mine in the great NEW ATLANTIS. I myself am not a member of the intelligent design community, . . . . Continue Reading »

contributed to by me. Another touching request by a Berry graduate. . . . . Continue Reading »

1. The president’s incompetence in the debt-ceiling pro-wrestling fake crisis was rather stunning. 2. He said the Republicans were acting irresponsibly by provoking default to get one-sided policy/budgetary reform with no real popular or legislative deliberation. There is something to that . . . . Continue Reading »

from one of my former students . . . . . . . Continue Reading »

George Will , in reflecting on the nature of the American regime, notices that Michele Bachmann reads von Mises at the beach (well, better than Rand by far) and that the young, raised on the huge and unregulated menu of choice that is the internet, are basically libertarians. The libertarians, as . . . . Continue Reading »

Here’s my contribution to the Weil dimension of Grant studies in response to Jason Hanson’s just criticism in the thread below. And now that the trauma is over (I’m no saint or hero) I can announce that yesterday was my 60th birthday. . . . . Continue Reading »

George Grant and stuff—another report from the ISI honors front . . . . . Continue Reading »

ISI day two, described by ME . Next year, we need to invite Professor Carl Scott, of course. . . . . Continue Reading »

No, I haven’t been singing that horrible song from HAIRSPRAY (in truth, not bad as a whole) when I go outside here in the city of endless row houses. But, here’s my first report on the ISI honors week. Paul Seaton—who lurks in our threads and is Baltimore’s most . . . . Continue Reading »

I will be at the ISI honors program this week at the Admiral Fell hotel in Fell’s Point, Baltimore. Tomorrow afternoon I will speak on Lockean America, etc. Among other things, I will explain why the road to serfdom never gets to serfdom and why I am right about the Tea Party. And everything . . . . Continue Reading »