In the wake of
Joseph Lawler's piece on George Mason economists evaluating
conservative magazines' affinity for liberty on the basis of
their treatment of sex, gambling, and drugs, Princeton's Robert
George is the perfect antidote. He could have reminded the
measurers of liberty that those who favor laissez faire
with regard to vice are often much less friendly to consensual
acts of capitalism between adults. It's a point he made in
his seminal book
Making Men Moral.
I'm currently attending a Union
University conference honoring the work of Robert P.
George. If conservatives are to have a chance of winning
the argument over the proper balance of liberty and virtue, they
could do no better than to look to Professor George as an
example. As Russell Moore reminded the audience this
evening, Robert George has never imitated the tendencies of many
conservative and/or Christian academics to make themselves or
their work more palatable to the ambient culture. Instead,
he has unapologetically argued for a robust conception of the
natural law and has mentored many academics to follow in his
footsteps.
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