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The always stimulating David Gordon writes in a recent issue of Young American Revolution: Hobbes is certainly right that disorder is undesirable; but the dangers of an unchecked sovereign far exceed the discomforts of the state of nature. Hitler, Stalin, Mao–the historical record teaches an unmistakable lesson. Hobbes had constantly in mind the need to [...]
Filed under: Philosophy
Todd Seavey has a surprising, if not altogether implausible, idea: “If Buckley had outlived the 2008 presidential campaign, I could imagine he might even have become an ardent Ron Paul fan in time, which would have helped speed the right’s education along immensely. He was anti-Iraq War, after all.” Well, John Derbyshire in 2007 also [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Politics, Ron Paul
On Monday, July 18, one of the titans of postwar American conservative scholarship died. Peter Stanlis was a key figure in the revival of interest in Edmund Burke in the 1950s, and his Edmund Burke and the Natural Law was a powerful influence on Russell Kirk and other traditionalist thinkers. Stanlis also devoted much study [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, the dead
Last week I discussed “prodigal conservatives” — prodigal in both senses of the term — with the Daily Paul’s Kurt Wallace. Listen here.
Filed under: Conservatism, Elections, Politics, Ron Paul
That is, Whigs In Name Only: “My notion of a Whig, I mean of a real Whig (for the Nominal are worse than any Sort of Men) is That he is one who is exactly for keeping up to the Strictness of the true old Gothick Constitution.” – Sir Robert Molesworth, Preface to Francois Hotman, [...]
A friend of mine has been getting pushback from libertarian readers who dislike his use of the term “liberal” in its modern American meaning. I have nothing against anyone who wants to defend the honor of an older usage, but the history of Anglo-American political ideas is more complicated than my friend’s critics realize. Not [...]
Filed under: Ideology