Author Archives: Donald W. Livingston
The First Conservative
Posted on August 10, 2011
David Hume uncovered the roots of revolution in false philosophy.
The End of Enlightenment
Posted on May 4, 2009
The Philosophers’ Quarrel: Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding, Robert Zaretsky and John T. Scott, Yale University Press, 247 pages
-
Get updates from The American Conservative
-
Help Us Grow
As a reader-funded non-profit, we count on your support. Now you can help a little every month: just commit $3, $10, or whatever is comfortable today! Thanks to you, we will reach new readers, challenge more minds, and give you more of the “best conservative magazine in America.”
Donate State of The Union
You Need Some Sleep
Jonathan Coppage • June 19, 5:21 AMEgypt’s Blasphemy Laws–Still a Bad Idea
Robert Long • June 19, 5:05 AMIranian Voters Stump the War Party
Scott McConnell • June 18, 3:45 PM
Rod Dreher
The Curse Of Sibling Rivalry
June 19, 2:23 PMWalker Percy Weekend Update
June 19, 2:12 PMAh, Southern Culture
June 18, 6:22 PM
Daniel Larison
The Illusion of Control
June 19, 12:53 PMIs the U.S. Capable of Exercising Foreign Policy Restraint?
June 19, 12:20 PMPolicy Differences Trump Personal Ties
June 19, 11:49 AM
Alan Jacobs
On Fixing Things
June 19, 7:48 AMWhat To Live For
June 18, 8:23 AM
Noah Millman
Prescriptive Implications Of Descriptive Realism
June 17, 3:59 PMRealism And The Agent-Principal Problem
June 17, 2:54 PM
Ron Unz
Race/IQ Revised
June 7, 4:32 PM
