Dr. Benjamin Wiker, Catholic cultural commentator and frequent author of ToTheSource, notes that our cultural perception of “tolerance” is meaningless as a value and has properties that can make it vice: We tend to treat Tolerance as if it is not just a virtue, but the virtue. What if Tolerance isn’t a virtue? What if…
DetailsSecond only to consequentialists, the political & moral apathy of the general public drives me up the wall. While the Republic is burning, many of my (often very intelligent) friends are worried about Snooki’s latest hairdo and 16 and Pregnant. Robert Higgs has noticed too: Fourteen things in which many Americans have an interest: shirking on…
DetailsPeter Hitchens, brother of the late Christopher and Catholic to boot, points out that there is no moral law that says everyone should pay as much tax as they can: What on earth is moral about paying tax? A greedy, slovenly state forces you to hand over roughly half your money every year, by threatening…
DetailsI would venture to bet that you think that the right is the moralist side of the political debate. I disagree. Americal Leftists have claimed the high ground in public policy, appealing to egalitarianism, environmentalism, and risk-aversion, in which moral positions are expressed but widely denied as having anything to do with “morality.” Conservatives, on…
DetailsMost of us are familiar with C. S. Lewis’s theological and philosophical writings, but you’ve made a point of drawing us to a neglected aspect of his thought, a deep-seated antipathy to “statism.” First of all, what is statism? Theroux: Statism is the view that all social and economic power in society should be…
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May is the best month! Most of the following deserve their own posts, but I have been extremely busy, and a blurb will have to do… Everyone should be in favor of lowering taxes for the rich (and for all, of course). The reason, in sum, is that the capital goods sector, largely financed by…
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