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War in Libya

I’ve given a little (not enough) thought to the issues surrounding our intervention in Libya.  There seem to me to be three questions. First, is this a prudent exercise of American military power?  The best consideration of this question that I’ve seen is Adam . . . . Continue Reading »

Evangelicals and Natural Law, Con’t

Responding to Matthew Anderson’s new CT article, Joe Knippenberg kicked off an interesting conversation on evangelicals and natural law. If you want to see a fair test case of evangelicals and Catholics working to figure out how to talk to each other about this, check out the comment thread. . . . . Continue Reading »

More on Fascism Today

The comments below are right insofar as I joined into Dr. Pat Deneen’s polemic against Fascism. Nonetheless, it’s true that Brad Thompson does pretty much call Strauss and some Straussians at least something close to Fascists. The allegation amount to this: Anyone who promotes personal . . . . Continue Reading »

The Lonely Campaign Trail

In this morning’s On the Square, Russell Saltzman recalls his time working on a friend’s political campaign, the pain of voter rejection—even when not a rejection of you personally—and concedes the possibility of a noble politician: Did I learn anything? Yes, a few things. I . . . . Continue Reading »

We Are All Theologians Now

Thaddeus Kozinski considers the recent debate between Hadley Arkes and Matthew O’Brien—which he views as presenting competing eudaimonistic and deontological theories of moral philosophy—and offers an alternate theological-traditionalist account of ethics : As I said at the outset, . . . . Continue Reading »

The 2011 Tournament of Novels Winner

And the winner is . . .   Pride and Prejudice By a margin of 55 to 44 percent, Pride and Prejudice beat The Hobbit —and 62 other contenders—to win the second annual Tournament of Novels. Thanks to everyone that participated. Beginning next March we’ll once again take . . . . Continue Reading »

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