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The Straussian Moment
gwern.netunchanged from the original published forms, although I have made a few adjustments - such as adding some additional footnotes and providing section headings in those essays where there were none in the original.In the subtitle I have chosen for this volume, I have characterized my various explorations as being in Kuyper's "line." The exp
... See moreRichard J. Mouw • The Challenges of Cultural Discipleship: Essays in the Line of Abraham Kuyper
... See moreThe aspect of Scott Buchanan’s life to which this memoir relates began, for me at least, with a college lecture he gave in October of 1944.
The lecture was a flight of high speculative fancy in which he tried to imagine the features of a Republic of Learning joined with a political republic.
If man is a political animal, his virtues compromised and
Rebekah Berndt • We are all cells in God's body
They must come to understand—and put into practice—the convictions that authentic faith is not opposed to reason; that scientism must be put to rest; that mere toleration must not be tolerated; that voluntarism must be eschewed; and that opponents must seek to really listen to one another. As an exemplar of these various intellectual and moral virt
... See moreRobert Barron • Arguing Religion
to participate in the great decisions of government. There was, Lippmann brooded, no “intrinsic moral and intellectual virtue to majority rule.” Lippmann’s disenchantment with democracy anticipated the mood of today’s elites. From the top, the public, and the swings of public opinion, appeared irrational and uninformed. The human material out of wh
... See moreMartin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth