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.

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Apocalyptic Violence: Handel's Messiah and the Jihadist's Mahdi

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This is the flag of the Islamic State.  "No god but God" is in white across the top.  "Muhammad is the Messenger of God...
Tuesday, December 08, 2015

The Foolish Panic over Terrorism

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By any objective standard, terrorism is a very minor problem.  It is certainly not, as so many political commentators have been telling us, ...
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Saturday, December 05, 2015

The Evonomics of Classical Liberalism and the Illegal Economy

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"Evonomics" is the term adopted by David Sloan Wilson and his colleagues for what they call "the Next Evolution of Economics,...
Wednesday, December 02, 2015

The Evolution of Private Governance and the Fictions of Anarchism and Statism

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As naturally social and political animals, human beings have evolved to live in social orders that arise as self-regulating spontaneous orde...
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Sunday, November 29, 2015

"Ex Machina": Can Robotic Love Pass the Turing Test?

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                                                                 Ava in Ex Machina I have recently viewed Alex Garland's film Ex M...
Sunday, November 15, 2015

Matt Ridley's Evolutionary Science of Lucretian Libertarianism

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Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui meme.  "Let do and let  pass, the world goes on by itself."  This was the de...
Wednesday, November 11, 2015

The Natural Desire for Beauty

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                                                    Bust of Queen Nefertiti of Egypt Number 12 on my list of 20 natural desires is bea...
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Friday, November 06, 2015

Justice Abraham Lincoln's Opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges

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A long list of prominent people have signed a "Statement Calling for Constitutional Resistance to Obergefell v. Hodges," which ha...
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