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, June 02, 2014

Human Biodiversity (7): Rising IQ in Developing Nations

What exactly is the relationship between IQ scores and wealth? Individuals with high IQ scores tend to be wealthier than those with lower I...

Thursday, May 29, 2014

Taming Ourselves: The Genetic Evolution of the Bourgeois Virtues Through Self-Domestication?

MAKING FRIENDS Beginning in 1959, researchers on a farm outside the city of Novosibirsk in Siberia selectively bred silver foxes to enco...

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Loathing Lincoln and Executive Prerogative

I enjoyed a pleasant day Saturday in Chicago with John and Susan Barr. We met at the Abraham Lincoln Bookstore, where John was being interv...

Friday, May 23, 2014

Human Biodiversity (6): Would the Recent Genetic Evolution of Human Beings Subvert Darwinian Natural Right?

The most provocative claim of Nicholas Wade's Troublesome Inheritance is that "human nature changes over time" (151). Of cour...

Friday, May 16, 2014

Human Biodiversity (5): Cultural Group Selection Through Migration and Assimilation

In A Troublesome Inheritance , Nicholas Wade writes: "Behavioral traits are particularly likely to be retained, but the universal insti...

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Human Biodiversity (4): The Importance of Culture in Gene-Culture Coevolution

The readers of Nicholas Wade's Troublesome Inheritance should notice the importance of culture in his argument. While he rejects the ...

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Human Biodiversity (3): Nicholas Wade, Abraham Lincoln, and Racial Genetics

The debate over Nicholas Wade's A Troublesome Inheritance reminds me of the debate over whether Abraham Lincoln was a racist. In contr...

Monday, May 12, 2014

Human Biodiversity (2): The Genetic Evolution of Capitalism and the Bourgeois Virtues?

In a paper that summarizes his book A Farewell to Alms (2007), Gregory Clark states as his thesis that there has been a Darwinian history o...

Sunday, May 11, 2014

Human Biodiversity Supports the Natural Right to Equal Liberty: Responding to Nicholas Wade and Charles Murrray

Nicholas Wade is a famous science writer, who has written for Nature, Science, and The New York Times . His new book-- A Troublesome Inheri...

Sunday, May 04, 2014

In the Garden: A Darwinian Love Story

I have just seen a new play presented by the Lookingglass Theatre Company of Chicago-- "In the Garden: A Darwinian Love Story....

Friday, May 02, 2014

Are the Most Intelligent People Libertarians?

Those who join the Libertarian Party of the United States are required to make this pledge: "I certify that I oppose the initiation of ...

Friday, April 25, 2014

The Case For (and Against) Life After Death (5): Does Morality Require the Cosmic Justice of Heaven and Hell?

Does human morality necessarily presuppose the reality of Heaven and Hell? That's the argument of Dinesh D'Souza, and that's th...

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