My review of @charlesmurray's Taking Religion Seriously:
Murray started to encounter one puzzle after another, the apparent answers to which were at odds with his default secularism.civitasinstitute.org/research/conve…View quoted post on X
Brian A. Smith
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Senior Program Officer, @Liberty_Fund. Author, Walker Percy and the Politics of the Wayfarer. amzn.to/2Co6Gjn. Opinions my own.
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In Gems of American History, Walter McDougall aims to excavate details that help round out the ideas that shaped America, in both its best and worst moments. Link to my review at @UT_Civitas below:
My latest, with some thoughts on @aaron_renn and the negative world for @UT_Civitas's Civitas Outlook: civitasinstitute.org/research/dissi….
www.civitasinstitute.org Dissident Blessings in the Negative World | Brian Smith Christian churches of all kinds have tended to stagnate when the church has been a part of the official regime. New Englanders had a robust sense of the limits of government, and a commitment to protecting the liberties and conscience of individual citizens. lawliberty.org/book-review/a-….
lawliberty.org A Puritanical Constitutionalism – Sarah A. Morgan Smith New Englanders had a robust sense of the limits of government, and a commitment to protecting the liberties and conscience of individual citizens. Great piece on Breakfast Club from @bradleybirzer. Forty years after its premiere, John Hughes’s high school masterpiece still expresses the freedom-loving ethos of Generation X. lawliberty.org/the-breakfast-….
lawliberty.org The Breakfast Club at 40 – Bradley J. Birzer Forty years after its premiere, John Hughes’s high school masterpiece still expresses the freedom-loving ethos of Generation X.