Darwinian Conservatism by Larry Arnhart

Traditionalist conservatives and classical liberals need Charles Darwin. They need him because a Darwinian science of human nature supports Burkean conservatives and Lockean liberals in their realist view of human imperfectibility, and in their commitment to ordered liberty as rooted in natural desires, cultural traditions, and prudential judgments. Arnhart's email address is larnhart1@niu.edu.

Friday, July 04, 2014

The Pursuit of Punctuation in the Declaration of Independence

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As we read the Declaration of Independence on this Fourth of July, we should pay special attention to its punctuation.  As a front-page arti...
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Sunday, June 29, 2014

Nordic Social Democracy as the Capitalist Welfare State

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  This is a chart from The Economist showing that by many of the standard measures of social health, the Nordic countries (Sweden, Den...
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Monday, June 23, 2014

The Marxist Critique of Socialist Anarchism

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Having surveyed the anarchist critique of Marxism in my previous post, I turn here to the Marxist side of this debate.  Then, in a third pos...
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Sunday, June 22, 2014

The New Communism and Socialist Anarchism

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The Haymarket Martyrs Monument with the Black and Red Flag of Anarchy in Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois Emma Goldman...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Darwin, Lincoln, and the Lost Cause of the American South

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John Barr has written a fascinating essay for the "U.S. Intellectual History Blog."  He suggests that proponents of the "Los...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Does the Moral Flynn Effect Support Flynn's Democratic Socialism or Murray's Classical Liberalism?

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I have written previously ( here , here , here , and here ) about what Steven Pinker in The Better Angels of Our Nature calls the "mor...
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Saturday, June 07, 2014

Does The American Black/White IQ Gap Refute Human Equality?

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For someone who is willing to risk provoking hostile reactions to his defense of the reality of race and the importance of racial difference...
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Tuesday, June 03, 2014

George Anastaplo and Hugo Black: Is the Right to Revolution Unconstitutional?

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In a few days, I will be participating in the Memorial Service for George Anastaplo.  Here's the program: Memorial Service for Georg...
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