McCain’s Push for “Militaristic” Values in Schools?
Friday, October 17th, 2008Alot of “hat tips” going out here, so I’ll just mention them first: TGGP, Booker Rising, Freedom Democrats.
Archive for the ‘social conservatism’ Category
A conservative’s case for Obama
Thursday, September 18th, 2008Wick Allison is an old school conservative with impeccable creds.
In 1964, at the age of 16, I organized the Dallas County Youth for Goldwater. My senior thesis at the University of Texas was on the conservative intellectual revival in America. Twenty years later, I was invited by William F. Buckley Jr. to join the board of National Review. I later became its publisher.
What Liberals And Libertarians Share
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008AOTP is all about “Liberals and libertarians on common ground”. Today I’d like to explore where that common ground begins, working from the idea that the aim of politics is the legislation of morality by government.
On The Plurality of Slippery Slopes
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008Jim did a very fine job dispatching the Douthat-Carter contribution to number theory and set theory: “[J]ust as ‘a lot of people would say’ there is ‘similarity between having sex with a prostitute while you’re married and paying to watch a prostitute perform sexual acts for your voyeuristic gratification,’ there is also similarity between ‘having sex with a prostitute’ and having sex with your spouse. Hey, it’s sex, right?” Right. The point generalizes. In a classic paper called “New Work For a Theory of Universals,” David Lewis (sort of my intellectual hero, so be prepared to hear more about him) wrote: (more…)