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RESPVBLICA: On the American Republic: Skeptical Conservatives
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Is a loose affiliation of web sites and blogs, both rookies and veterans, that share a conservative outlook without religious faith. Affiliates must adhere to no strict set of principles. Some of us are more friendly toward religion, for example, while others are less. We are all more or less right-wing nonbelievers. If you would like to have your web page or blog listed, contact CONSVLTVS directly, at consvltvs [at] respvblica [dot] com, or the web masters of any of the other affiliates. John, Stuart Mi...
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RESPVBLICA: On the American Republic: December 2013
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Friday, December 13, 2013. Atheism Confirmed, Part II. Or the ethnic cleansing perpetrated by Joshua at God’s command? Or the casual endorsements of slavery? Or God’s breathtaking insistence on the death penalty for a man caught gathering sticks on the Sabbath? Links to this post. Wednesday, December 11, 2013. Not sure what Blogger has done with the pictures. Will attempt to reload them if necessary. Links to this post. Sunday, December 8, 2013. Atheism Confirmed, Part I. Links to this post. The Tiers of...
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RESPVBLICA: On the American Republic: Sound Bites
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8220;The man of ambition thinks to find his good in the operations of others; the man of pleasure in his own sensations; but the man of understanding in his own actions.”. 8220;The welfare state cannot avoid becoming the judiciary state.”. 8220;There are almost no women ever on Death Row. Is anyone calling for some affirmative action there? 8220;Modern liberalism tends to classify all moral distinctions it does not accept as hateful and invalid.”. Richard Dawkins (regarding literary Postmodernism):.
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RESPVBLICA: On the American Republic: Atheism Confirmed, Part II
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Friday, December 13, 2013. Atheism Confirmed, Part II. Or the ethnic cleansing perpetrated by Joshua at God’s command? Or the casual endorsements of slavery? Or God’s breathtaking insistence on the death penalty for a man caught gathering sticks on the Sabbath? What are the implications of these discoveries? In my case, finding one answer has raised a whole new set of questions. Is there any point in retaining even the label “conservative? Historical institutions may have been as beautifully adapted to t...
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RESPVBLICA: On the American Republic: May 2013
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Sunday, May 26, 2013. One thing I have always liked about the president is his manner. Whether it bespeaks Stoicism or icy calculation is another matter. Here. At least one writer has hinted at the former. In any event, the rest of her article on the utility of Stoicism in modern times will be of interest to those who have a sense that even without the Christian God there is a need for virtue in our conduct, whether we are soldiers, statesmen, or merely citizens of the Republic. Links to this post.
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RESPVBLICA: On the American Republic: Musings
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8220;A religion is, among other things, a mode of moral government. The historian does not ask if a theology is true—through what omniscience might he judge? 8212;Will Durant, The Age of Faith. 8212;David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals. 8212; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. 8220;Just as good customs require laws in order to be maintained, so laws require good customs in order to be observed.”. 8212;Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy. 8220;A man who has nothing for wh...
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RESPVBLICA: On the American Republic: …And Yet
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Wednesday, November 19, 2014. 8220;Understand Frodo, I would use this Ring from a desire to do good. But. Through me, it would wield a power too great and terrible to imagine.”. Given that we have sped so swiftly along the road to tyranny, it is now clear that what I have referred to as frame-breaking technological progress is perhaps more likely to empower dictatorship than freedom. Yes, compact fusion. How did a free people come to this place? Let there be WIC. Some people lack health care? Eliminating...
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RESPVBLICA: On the American Republic: Issues
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Here are links to some of the main posts covering topics of significance to the purpose of RESPVBLICA. Capital Punishment: A Necessary Evil. Climate Change: Global Warming Litmus Test. Wanted: Climate Change Argument, Not Advocacy. The Vocabulary of Victory. Drug Abuse: Standing the Consequences. Guest Post: Against the Lotos. Environmentalism: James Lee, Antihumanist. Evolution: Quintessence of Dust. Feminism: Man Up, Already. Foreign Policy: The Dangerous Appeal of Appeasement. Liberty: On Public Order.
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RESPVBLICA: On the American Republic: Hiatus
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Tuesday, June 10, 2014. To a great extent, life as we get older becomes more about how to spend the time available. Other commitments have kept your author away this year, and there is no foreseeable change to those priorities. Additionally, some reading last year (chiefly, books by Matt Ridley. How long will the past remain useful as a lens for bringing the present into focus? To the extent one has leisure, is it not better spent looking forward than back? June 10, 2014 at 12:01 PM. War is the answer.
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RESPVBLICA: On the American Republic: November 2014
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Thursday, November 27, 2014. Several months ago, Nicholas Wade published a book on human evolution that I have only now had time to read: A Troublesome Inheritance. Wade articulated the case that human evolution has been “recent, copious and regional….” The implications of his conclusions—which only echo those of other works, such as Cochran and Harpending’s The 10,000 Year Explosion. Don’t we still see blacks incarcerated at disproportionate rates? If true, then the final speculation suggests we will co...