Obama’s DNC acceptance speech long on rhetoric and short on coherent policy

Richard Epstein analyzes Obama’s speech at the close of the Democrat convention and dubs Obama the “preacher-in-chief.” Epstein’s post at the Hoover Institution should be read in full.  Here are the best lines, the first after a review of both … Continue reading

Reconciling Darwinian Biology With Conservative Social and Political Philosophy

This statement by Larry Arnhart is, in my view,  a satisfactory reconciliation of the Conservative thought of Edmund Burke, the father of modern conservative social and political philosophy, and the theory of evolution by natural selection formulated by Charles Darwin: … Continue reading