by Kevin Bauder | Jul 20, 2017 | America, Religious Freedom
The text of the attorney general’s speech to the Alliance Defending Freedom has been reprinted by The Federalist. Read it here. America has never thought itself to be a theocracy. Our founders, at least the most articulate of them, believed our government...
by Kevin Bauder | Jul 19, 2017 | Affections, Anthropology, Civility, Conservatism, Culture, Epistemology, Hamartiology, Logic and Argumentation, Philosophy, Science, Secularism, Social Issues, Technology
Richard Weaver was one of the three or four most important founders of modern conservatism. His Ideas Have Consequences is probably the most important work in defining a conservative outlook. His notion of “metaphysical dream” is priceless. The Imaginative...
by Kevin Bauder | Jul 19, 2017 | Apologetics, History, Islam, Reviews
Joel Zartman reviews the book by Robert R. Reilly. The discussion ranges from Al Ghazali’s Incoherence of the Philosophers to Christian Presuppositionalism.
by Kevin Bauder | Jul 19, 2017 | Apropos of Nothing, Poetry
It’s an easy one. From Middlingpoet.
by Kevin Bauder | Jul 18, 2017 | Capitalism, Culture, Economics, Politics, Race
I first read Thomas Sowell back in the late 1980s. It was his book on The Economics and Politics of Race. It was a great book and Sowell became one of my favorite writers. Sowell recently retired and we are all poorer for it. Andre Archie at The American Conservative...