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.

Saturday, September 30, 2006

Michael Shermer's Darwinian Conservatism

The October issue of Scientific American has a short column by Michael Shermer on why Christian conservatives should accept Darwinian evolu...

Saturday, September 23, 2006

Adam Smith and the Neurology of Sympathy

In 1996, some Italian scientists studying the neural activity of macaque monkeys reported a remarkable discovery. They had been recording th...

Saturday, September 16, 2006

Darwinian Conservatism and Divine Command Theory

In the The American Conservative , Heather Mac Donald has expressed the frustrations of a "skeptical conservative" who cannot unde...

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Biblical Darwinism

Biblical believers (like Carson Holloway and John West) often criticize Darwin for promoting a materialist view of morality that is morally ...

Thursday, September 07, 2006

Has Anyone Seen Evolution?

Has anyone ever seen the evolution of a new species from ancestral species? This question points to the fundamental difficulty in Darwinian...

Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Peter Lawler's Review in MODERN AGE

Peter Augustine Lawler has written a review of Darwinian Conservatism in the summer 2006 issue of Modern Age . Unfortunately, that journal...

Monday, August 28, 2006

Was Charles Darwin Responsible for Adolf Hitler and the Columbine Killings?

To see the hysterical fear of Darwinian science, go here . James Kennedy of the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church has produced a television d...

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Biological Conservatism?

Many conservatives who object to Darwinian conservatism seem to be open to a biological conservatism that does not assume the truth of Darwi...

Monday, August 21, 2006

The Evasive Rhetoric of NCSE

The National Center for Science Education is the leading organization in the United States that defends the teaching of evolution in public ...

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Darwinian Liberal Education

We should all know what's wrong with higher education today. Teaching and research have become so specialized, fragmented, and incohere...

Thursday, August 10, 2006

Carson Holloway in SCIENCE & THEOLOGY NEWS

Carson Holloway's book The Right Darwin? is a general criticism of any attempt to ground morality in human biological nature. His main...

Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Do the Bible and the Koran Support Theocracy?

In his prophetic essay from 1990, Bernard Lewis warned that Islamic fundamentalism would bring a "clash of civilizations" with rad...

Friday, July 28, 2006

Strauss, Darwin, and the Bible

Heinrich Meier's new book-- Leo Strauss and the Theological-Political Problem (Cambridge University Press, 2006)--includes two unpublis...

Thursday, July 27, 2006

Interview by Jamie Glazov

Jamie Glazov has posted an interview with me. The interview along with many comments can be found at the Free Republic . The comments show...

Sunday, July 23, 2006

The Desire for War

Of the desires on my list of 20 natural desires, none is more controversial than the desire for war. On page 31 of Darwinian Conservatism ,...

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

American Political Science Association Convention Panel

The 2006 meetings of the American Political Science Association will be in Philadelphia, August 31 to September 3. At 8:00 am, August 31, I...

Sunday, July 16, 2006

Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, and Charles Darwin

I have been reading The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith , edited by Knud Haakonssen and just published by Cambridge. The concluding essay...

Friday, July 07, 2006

Spiritual Machines or Abolition of Man?

By the year 2045, we will have created robotic intelligence that will be one billion times more powerful than the biological intelligence of...

Thursday, July 06, 2006

George Gilder's Intelligent Design Creationism

The July 17th issue of National Review has an article by George Gilder, "Evolution and Me" . Gilder is a conservative economist ...

Friday, June 30, 2006

Harry Jaffa and Charles Darwin

The debate among American conservatives over Darwinian evolution is evident in some recent writing by James Q. Wilson and Harry Jaffa. Wils...

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