Tag: conservatism
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The Collective Turn – David Brooks
New York Times: The Collective Turn – David Brooks David Brooks captures the essence of my perspective once again. "… I am not a liberal like Obama, so I was struck by what he left out in his tour through American history. I, too, would celebrate Seneca Falls, Selma and Stonewall, but I'd also mention…
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How to Love Liberty More Than a Libertarian Economist
Powerblog: How to Love Liberty More Than a Libertarian Economist Joe Carter … As the ancient Greeks used to say, when the gods want to punish someone, they give him what he prays for. That would certainly be true for anyone praying for a libertarian state. If such a request were granted the libertarian state…
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Social Scientist Sees Bias Within
New York Times: Social Scientist Sees Bias Within SAN ANTONIO — Some of the world’s pre-eminent experts on bias discovered an unexpected form of it at their annual meeting. Discrimination is always high on the agenda at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s conference, where psychologists discuss their research on racial prejudice, homophobia, sexism,…
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Why the Right Fears Transforming America
National Review: Why the Right Fears Transforming America The giveaway regarding presidential candidate Barack Obama’s plans for America was his repeated use of the words “fundamentally transform.” Some of us instinctively reacted negatively — in fact, with horror — at the thought of fundamentally transforming America. The “us” are conservatives. One unbridgeable divide between Left…
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“Crunchy Cons” A Book Review and Reflection
Crunchy Cons: How Birkenstocked Burkeans, gun-loving organic gardeners, evangelical free-range farmers, hip homeschooling mamas, right-wing nature lovers, and their diverse tribe of countercultural conservatives plan to save America (or at least the Republican Party). Sometime back, fellow blogger Russell Smith put me on to the Crunchy Conservative phenomenon. I recently got around to reading Rod…