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, November 19, 2022

Looking Good: The Darwinian Ethics of Beauty in the Human Body as an Evolved Natural Desire

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In Darwinian Natural Right , I said that if the good is the desirable, then human ethics is natural insofar as it satisfies natural human de...
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Thursday, November 10, 2022

The End of History (Again?). Trump, Putin, and the Triumph of Liberal Democracy

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  The New York Post has been Donald Trump's favorite newspaper.  I am sure this cover and the  article  by John Podhoretz has added to h...
Tuesday, November 08, 2022

Partisan Polarization and the Threat of Civil War in America's Most Dangerous Election: The Election of 1800

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The partisan polarization in this American election was so intense that it became a political war.  Many people expected the country would f...
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Thursday, November 03, 2022

Egalitarian Hierarchy in Locke's Hunting-Gathering State of Nature: A Response to David Graeber, David Wengrow, Manvir Singh, and Luke Glowacki

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I have often  argued  that scientific studies of the hunting-gathering way of life as the "environment of evolutionary adaptedness...
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Saturday, October 22, 2022

Against the Independent State Legislature Theory: How Judges Have Impeded the John Eastman/Claremont Institute Plot to Overturn the Constitution for Trump

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In  previous posts , I have written about how judges have frustrated the attempts by John Eastman and the Claremont Institute to overturn th...
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Thursday, October 13, 2022

Trump's Chimpanzee Politics in the Ohio Senate Race: Tim Ryan Emasculates J. D. Vance

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 I have written about Donald Trump's  chimpanzee politics .  Recently, we have had an excellent illustration of how to counter Trump...
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Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Indigenous Americans Introduced Slavery to America. European Liberalism Abolished Slavery.

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The second Monday in October has long been celebrated as Columbus Day.  But in recent years, many people have insisted that this day should ...
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Thursday, October 06, 2022

The Decline of Monarchy and the Evolutionary Symbolic Niche Construction of Bourgeois Culture

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Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace After Her Coronation in Westminster Cathedral in 1953 THE DECLINE OF MONARCHY On pages 16-17 of the pap...
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