Hunter Baker
The argument from federalism: One of the great benefits of federalism is that the states can act as the laboratories of democracy. If a new public policy is tried in the states and works (as happened with welfare reform in…
Is he still confident that Obama will govern from the economic center as he stated in his self-congratulatory “apology” to Mum and Pup before the election? Update: A comment on this post led me to find this from Buckley: Much…
In an earlier post, I already set out my own attitude of humility before the pope’s encyclical. I recognize the respect due both his office and his tremendous personal learning. There is no question that what the pope has said…
I remember once reading an author who began by saying that he wasn’t a big fan of Paul. I was offended by that because I thought, “Who are you to pronounce yourself a non-fan of Paul? Furthermore, who cares whether…
A very wise friend suggested to me that Obama’s second term is an inevitability. I have to take issue with him because it seems all too clear to me that the president has abandoned the ironclad strategy for victory. What…
When I was growing up in the late seventies and early eighties, some of my best nights were spent watching baseball on television with my dad. We were great Braves fans, but they tended to be irrelevant, so we also…
In my latest commentary for the Acton Institute (the best Catholico-Evangelical-Hayekian think tank you ever saw), I try to warn public policy makers away from “the tyranny of the obvious” and “wishing makes it so” tendencies in governing. Here’s…
I’ve been reading the stories in Russell Kirk’s Ancestral Shadows collection. They are chillingly full of awful justice. Highly recommended for the Christian supernaturalist., the preserver of the old ways, and even the libertarian who likes to see meddling bureaucrats get…
Joseph Bottum has written it at First Things. It’s all there. Including quite a bit you probably don’t already know.
I wrote a commentary on The End of Christian America for the Acton Institute. As you can tell from the title of this blog post, I’m a little skeptical. Here’s a clip: Christian America is busy dying again. If you…
