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Prickly Porcupine on Natural Law: A Review of David Lyle Jeffrey’s Tales From Limerick Forest

Hence this book is something special: a new set of Christian fables on natural law that do more than teach simple morals or seek to modify children’s behavior.
September 10, 2024

Dobbs v. Roe: See How They Love One Another

There will be a temptation for many to say: “Good. Roe is gone. Now the rest is none of my business.” It would be wise to remember this disinterest in…

Reading the Constitution in the Light of Russell Kirk

Berwyn, PA.  Gerald Russello reflects on Russell Kirk's theory of the unwritten Constitutionone in a new essay published on the Liberty Fund's Liberty Forum.  His essay is part of a…

Conservative in America

Kearneysville, WV. As this election cycle grinds on, and as Washington prepares for CPAC's 2012 event, each Republican candidate continues to claim that he best represents the conservative ideal. In…
Mark T. Mitchell
February 6, 2012

On Power

Every fall I teach a course called “Democracy.” One of the books we invariably read is On Power: The Natural History of its Growth by the French philosopher Bertrand de…
Mark T. Mitchell
October 3, 2011

Fired for the Natural Law, Part II: Toward a Marriage of Natures

Our conception of nature is too thin, too reliant upon the conceptions of the ancient Stoics, and so requires the more robust visions of Aristotle and Aquinas if moral debate…

Fired for the Natural Law, Part I: Against the Laws of Nature

The precincts of higher education have become so well known for their enormities and absurdities in the pursuit of political correctness that one may almost breeze past the latest episode…