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.

Monday, August 24, 2020

Was John Locke's Liberalism Proslavery?

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In August of 1619, the English settlers in Jamestown, Virginia, bought 20 or more African slaves from English pirates, who had stolen them f...
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Thursday, August 20, 2020

Nicholas Christakis' Biological Sociology of the Good Society

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My review of Nicholas Christakis' book Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society  has just been  published  by Law & Lib...
Wednesday, August 12, 2020

COVID-19 in the Evolutionary History of Infectious Diseases (2): The Accidental Animal Origins of SARS-CoV-2

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At about 7 p.m. on the evening of December 30, 2019, some samples from hospital patients in Wuhan, China, arrived at the Wuhan Institute of ...
Friday, August 07, 2020

COVID-19 in the Evolutionary History of Infectious Disease: Will It Kill Liberal Globalism?

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Will the COVID-19 pandemic kill liberal globalism?   According to Curtis Yarvin, writing for the Claremont Institute's blog  American Mi...
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Thursday, July 30, 2020

Darwinian Conservatism, Darwinian Liberalism, and the Welfare State: A Reply to Govert Schuller

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During my teaching career at Northern Illinois University, I was privileged to have many smart students who taught me a lot.  I designed my ...
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Thursday, July 23, 2020

Mary Trump on Donald Trump: The Man and the Myth Created by Fred Trump

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One of Donald Trump's favorite statements is "Nobody knows more about [fill in the blank] than me." Trump receives a ...
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Wednesday, July 15, 2020

What Jane Goodall Has Taught Us About Biopolitical History

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s  n Yesterday was the 60th anniversary of Jane Goodall's arrival at the Gombe Stream Preserve in Tanzania on July 14, 1960.  There ...
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