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Learning what we already knew

Posted on December 9, 2008 by David Hume

Forbes has a piece up, America’s Healthiest And Unhealthiest States. But you could predict the list from Albion’s Seed. Sometimes things never change….

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Darwinian & Postmodern Conservatism

Posted on December 9, 2008 by David Hume

At Culture11 Ivan Kenneally asks, Is Darwinian Conservatism Postmodern?: Larry Arnhart is surely the best proponent of Darwinian Conservatism, and not just because he has a blog with the same name. In his view, an evolutionary biological account of nature properly … Continue reading →

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Great American history book recommendations

Posted on December 9, 2008 by David Hume

This is a thread for suggestions.  I’m looking here for works which focus on social & economic changes, as opposed to personal biography and diplomatic history.  The latter was important, but my personal impression is that they’re easy to bone … Continue reading →

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Sexuality and human nature

Posted on December 7, 2008 by David Hume

A friend emailed me in response to my post below: Interesting example with homosexuality, both because the choice of sexual behavior, pretty much the sort of thing that one would expect the strongest biological constraints on, was apparently needed to … Continue reading →

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The Scrooges of Olympia

Posted on December 5, 2008 by Andrew Stuttaford

Well, John (Mr. Bradlaugh), here I am (looks around anxiously, wondering about the strange, godless place in which he now finds himself). And, yes, I’m certainly up for that Christmas drink – and a mince pie too if such delicacies can be found … Continue reading →

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The season needs no reason

Posted on December 5, 2008 by David Hume

Apropos of Bradlaugh’s post about Christ, I thought it might be appropriate to repost something I wrote two years ago about Christmass…

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O’Reilly Outraged

Posted on December 5, 2008 by Bradlaugh

I find myself muddled over this flap in Washington State that Bill O’Reilly is making much of. Just in time for the Christmas season, the Governor of Washington State, Christine Gregoire, has insulted Christians all over the world.  Inside the … Continue reading →

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The Right Nation

Posted on December 4, 2008 by Bradlaugh

Walter:  I reviewed Mickelthwait and Wooldridge’s book for the late lamented New York Sun here.  The Sun’s literary editor at the time, Robert Messenger, called up to congratulate me on having used the word “armigerous.”  I hope the paper did … Continue reading →

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Books for Secular Cons

Posted on December 3, 2008 by Bradlaugh

If it’s godless conservatism you’re wantin’, I’d offer A Mencken Chrestomathy by H.L. Mencken, I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader, ed. Richard W. Seaver, and the Loeb Horace: The Odes and Epodes by Q. Horatius … Continue reading →

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Good books for conservatives not on the usual lists?

Posted on December 3, 2008 by David Hume

How about some recommendations?  And non-obvious ones at that!  Let’s limit it to three submissions per person so that “you make them count.”  Here are my heterodox submissions: The Blank Slate, The Iliad and The Elements.

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