02 Jun 2013
Posted by Andrew Fulford 
Mr. J. L. Leidl has written a worthy salvo at Ethika Politika in the ongoing debate about American liberalism and the politics of virtue. Near the end of his piece he addresses the question of what a eudaimonist can do in a pervasively liberal society. He rightly dismisses three options: MacIntyrean...
Read more → 14 Jan 2013
Posted by Steven Wedgeworth and Peter Escalante 
There is often heated debate, in the realms of politics and church history, over the religious (or antireligious) nature of the Enlightenment and of early modern political thought, especially the school of Liberalism. The loudest is the debate about the question of whether or not the United States’...
Read more → 22 Dec 2012
Posted by Steven Wedgeworth and Peter Escalante 
Dr. Paul Helm has written some quite useful things on John Calvin and philosophical theology, but he also has his contrarian side, which yields some very unfortunate results. This latest post is a case in point, wherein Dr. Helm offers up a confused yet troubling articulation and application of the doctrine...
Read more → 07 May 2012
Posted by Peter Escalante 
At last Darryl Hart admits that we’re the consistent Protestants, but with the proviso that in this case consistency is not a virtue. It is nevertheless quite a concession from the redoubtable Dr Hart, first, because it is an admission regarding our position which he’s never before granted, and second,...
Read more → 13 Apr 2012
Posted by Peter Escalante 
Peter Leithart here draws attention to libertarian guru Ludwig von Mises' animosity toward Christianity. Mises' charges are old ones, whose most recent variants include Nietzsche's critique of Christianity as resentment-driven Sklavenmoral. This is not to say that there's nothing at all to the thesis...
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