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.

Thursday, October 29, 2020

The Evolutionary Extinction of Trump's Republican Party

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Over the past two years, I have written a series of posts ( here ,  here ,  here ,  here , and  here ) predicting the evolutionary extinctio...
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Friday, October 23, 2020

Part 3 of "The Evolution of Human Progress Through the Liberal Enlightenment"

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5. WHAT IS THE ULTIMATE CAUSE OF HUMAN PROGRESS? Readers of Bailey and Tupy's book can see suggestions about four possible causes of hum...
Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Part Two of "The Evolution of Human Progress Through the Liberal Enlightenment"

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 4. ARE THERE OTHER IMPORTANT TRENDS OF HUMAN PROGRESS?  INCREASING RELIGIOSITY OR INCREASING SECULARIZATION? In explaining some of the tren...
Saturday, October 17, 2020

The Evolution of Human Progress Through the Liberal Enlightenment: Bailey and Tupy

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 "All things considered, do you think the world is getting better or worse, or neither getting better nor worse?" In 2016, the glo...
Sunday, October 11, 2020

The Michigan Supreme Court Declares Whitmer's Lockdown Orders Unconstitutional--Reviving the Lockean Nondelegation Doctrine

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In April, I wrote a series of posts ( here ,  here , and  here ) arguing that Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer's lockdown orders were ...
Saturday, October 03, 2020

How Trump Defeats the Pandemic

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Since Trump's announcement yesterday that he has been infected by the coronavirus, most of the popular reaction has assumed that this is...
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Monday, September 28, 2020

The Rhetorical Myth of Trump the Self-Made Billionaire: The New York Times Does It Again

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 Earlier this year, I wrote a  post  applying Aristotle's Rhetoric to Donald Trump's campaign rhetoric and showed that Trump makes t...
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Friday, September 25, 2020

The COVID-19 Lockdown in Pennsylvania Is Unconstitutional--A Federal Judge's Ruling

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Having argued in April ( here  and here ) that the COVID-19 lockdowns are unconstitutional, I am pleased to see that a federal judge in Penn...
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