by Kevin Bauder | Nov 14, 2016 | Conservatism, Religious Freedom
Trevor Burrus says yes. For his putative conservatism, George W. Bush amassed significant power for the executive branch. Barack Obama has arrogated even more. Religious freedom depends, in part, upon the ability of the congress and the courts to restrain that kind of...
by Kevin Bauder | Nov 2, 2016 | America, Conservatism, How the Left Thinks, Liberalism
Stanley Kurtz at National Review wonders about the ethics of some conservative tactics against liberals, but he also notes how the liberal war against conservatives easily becomes one of personal destruction. His closing quotation from liberal Robert Creamer reveals...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 29, 2016 | Conservatism, Politics
Conservatism is an idea. The articulation and defense of that idea requires a core of competent thinkers and writers. Modern American conservatism was built largely on the intellectual labors of three men: Russell Kirk, Richard Weaver, and Frederick Hayek. These...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 22, 2016 | America, Conservatism, Liberalism, Logic and Argumentation, Politics
Can we restore dignity to our degraded times? So asks Bruce Frohnen at The Imaginative Conservative. The very notion of infidelity as a wrong seems outdated today. Presidential candidates of both parties dismiss the thing-in-itself as meaningless or, at most, a...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 21, 2016 | America, Conservatism, Religious Freedom
They’re not the same thing, according to Stephanie Russell-Kraft at Religion Dispatches. And conservatives are tilting more and more toward liberty. Political theorist Hanna Fenichel Pitkin, in her 1988 essay “Are Freedom and Liberty Twins?”, wrote that freedom...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 20, 2016 | Affections, Christianity, Conservatism, Devotion, Theology
According to the Scriptures, neither our emotions nor our experiences provide an adequate foundation for the Christian life. Only the truths of Scripture, understood with the mind and communicated through doctrine, can provide that sure foundation upon which we should...
