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 The very notion of infidelity as a wrong seems outdated today.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 18, 2016 | America, Conservatism, Politics
Can you have one without the other? Carlos Flores says NO. The social conservative observes that nature has providentially provided such an environment for the formation of a virtuous people who are ready to participate in (or establish) a political project: the...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 17, 2016 | America, Conservatism, Logic and Argumentation, Politics, Religious Freedom
Over at First Things, Carl Trueman opines that traditionalists are losing the conflict over marriage and sexuality, not revisionists have a better argument, but because they have a more compelling aesthetic. He doesn’t think this situation is going to turn...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 10, 2016 | Education, Liberalism, Politics
The New Criterion is not a Christian publication–far from it. It is not even a thoroughly conservative publication. But it does take culture and meaning seriously, and it is almost always worth reading. Here is a recent commentary on “Campus...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 8, 2016 | Israel, Politics
Plenty of people believe that the “Green Line” is a matter of international law and that many Israeli settlements are illegal. Malcolm Lowe replies at the Gatestone Institute.
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 6, 2016 | America, Israel, Politics
Evidently, President Obama’s remarks at his funeral, as reported by the White House, leave that issue unresolved. Read Elliott Abrams at Pressure Points.
