Statesmanship and the Dangers of Civil Religion
I recently attended a conference on statesmanship. Truth be told, there are reasons to be ambivalent about statesmanship. While public service is a great virtue, the statesman…
Can Subsidiarity Restore American Self-Government?
Just as it is gravely wrong to take from individuals what they can accomplish by their own initiative and industry and give it to the community, so…
Democracy and That Other Sort of Man
"Thus the world is like an oil press: under pressure. If you are the dregs of the oil you are carried away through the sewer; if you…
Individualism Waning in the West
Conservatives, by nature, are individualists. While valuing faith, flag, and family, they are skeptical of ideology and of utopian solutions to social problems. But they have been…
The Quran Problem and Islamism
The Quran Problem and Islamism. Salim Mansur. Mantua Books, 2017. Salim Mansur writes as a self-described “dissident Muslim,” which he defines as “someone who either critically…
Liberal Learning and the Great Christian Tradition
Liberal Learning and the Great Christian Tradition. Gary W. Jenkins and Jonathan Yonan, eds. Eugene: Pickwick Publications, 2015. In the forward, Stratford Caldecott claims that education…
The Protestant Heritage of Classical Humanism: Melanchthon and Cicero
Here is the grand fact that Protestant theologians always overlook. They, in reality, always present nature and grace as two antagonistic powers, and suppose the presence of…
Some Reflections on Eugene Webb’s “The Question of Eric Voegelin’s Faith (or Atheism?): A Comment on Maben Poirier’s Critique”
In Eric Voegelin: Philosopher of History Webb comments, of liberal conceptions of order in history, that they “overlook the transcendent dimension of the human project, but they…
Reductio ad Machina: Human Identity in the Age of Machines
“Technique has penetrated the deepest recesses of the human being. The machine tends not only to create a new human environment, but also to modify man’s very…
We Are Not Our Own: Childhood in a Technological Age
Liberal culture’s anti-child practices are bound up with a logic of childlessness most basically defined in terms of a forgetfulness of being and its Origin and expressed…
The Postmodern “Christian” Theology of William Thompson-Uberuaga
History has an ineradicable place in Christian theology.[1] In the Judeo-Christian tradition, history is the “place” where God’s revelation and offer of salvation is made to human…
There is Nothing New Under the Sun: A Letter to Rabbi Avram Mlotek
On April 5th, Rabbi Avram Mlotek authored a piece for the Jewish Telegraph Agency, titled, “I’m an Orthodox rabbi who is going to start officiating LGBTQ weddings.…
