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.

Sunday, August 28, 2016

Was Westermarck a Darwinian Conservative? A Reply to Antti Lepisto

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Antti Lepisto of the University of Helsinki, Finland, has written a paper--"Darwinian Conservatives and Westermarck's Ethics: A Pol...
Friday, August 26, 2016

Donald Trump Now Admits that the Alt-Right is Wrong about Immigration

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Recent polling  suggests that the great majority of Americans have decided that Donald Trump was wrong in his earlier Alt-Right opposition t...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Darwinian Liberalism Versus Trump's Alt-Right White Supremacism

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With Donald Trump's appointment of Stephen Bannon, the chairman of Breitbart Media, to lead his campaign, Trump has openly embraced the ...
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Monday, August 22, 2016

The Philosophic Life in Smith's Commercial Society: Strauss, Cropsey, and McCloskey

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Although Joseph Cropsey and Deirdre McCloskey contradict one another in their interpretations of Adam Smith, they apparently agree that ther...
Sunday, August 21, 2016

Does Donald Trump Have Any Bourgeois Virtues?

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Donald Trump is a reminder that the most dangerous enemies of capitalism are capitalists like himself. I am surprised, therefore, that Dei...
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Bourgeois Virtues?

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Deirdre McCloskey tells the story of preparing for a lecture at Princeton University.  An office secretary at Princeton called her to get th...
Saturday, August 20, 2016

Deirdre McCloskey and the Evolutionary Science of Liberalism as Symbolic Niche Construction

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The most momentous event in the evolutionary history of Homo sapiens over the past 200,000 years was the emergence of the Bourgeois Era thr...
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Friday, August 12, 2016

Donald Trump, ISIS, and Islamic Libertarianism

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Donald Trump has said that Barack Obama is the "founder" of ISIS, and Hillary Clinton is the "co-founder."  Yesterday,...
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Monday, August 01, 2016

Adam Smith's Commentary on Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Khizr Khan

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If Adam Smith had been a commentator for Laissez Faire News at the Republican and Democratic Party Conventions, what would he have said abou...
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Thursday, July 21, 2016

Lucretius in the Evolution/Creation Debate

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From ancient Greece and Rome to the present, one of the fundamental debates in human history has been over a deep question: Is our universe ...
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