Only political reform can fight the system that protects rapists on college campuses.
Author: Greg Forster (Greg Forster)
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An Anxious Author: Hope and the Spirit of Joseph Bottum
Why bother with American culture? Bottum recommends despair.
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It’s a Wonderful Strife
Yes, George Bailey destroyed Bedford Falls. Good riddance! The entrepreneur creates new ways of life that restore our moral bearings when old ways of life become—as they do in every age—cynical and dysfunctional.
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Evangelicals and Politics: The Way Forward
Virtuous citizenship requires building moral consensus across religious and cultural divides. The third in a three-part series.
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Evangelicals and Politics: The Religious Right (Born 1979, Died 2000)
The largely forgotten history of evangelical political activism forces us to re-evaluate the rights and wrongs of the Religious Right movement. The second in a three-part series.
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Evangelicals and Politics: The Hundred Years’ War
The legacy of the great Protestant schism a century ago continues to hinder evangelicals from finding satisfactory ways to participate in America’s civic order. The first in a three-part series.
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Locke, Metaphysics, and the Challenge of America
John Locke is a deep cultural well from which we still can draw good water.
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Closing the Door on Education Innovation
The feds are working behind the scenes to nationalize K-12 curriculum, including a national test. This would be bad for schools, and disastrous for the culture.
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Tea Party Metaphysics: Where Do We Go From Here?
Social conservatives must understand and embrace America’s traditional economic culture before they can contribute to its renewal. Economic conservatives must expel the infection of shallow anthropology, vulgar utilitarianism, and metaphysical blindness that they picked up from progressivism in the 20th century.
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Tea Party Metaphysics: Economics and First Principles
The Tea Party taps into the full social and cultural power of transcendent moral appeals in a way that social conservatives have never been able to do. The first in a two-part series.
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The Welfare State and the Meaning of Life
Faced with Charles Murray’s argument that the welfare state makes everything too easy, a socialist could ask: Should everything therefore be made more difficult? How can Murray say the welfare state is bad for making life easier while praising other state functions that make life easier, like the police? Only a moral perspective can oppose socialism while affirming legitimate state functions.