Why most intellectuals are not “conservative”
A progressive friend (non-woke) asked me why the bench of conservative intellectuals is much shallower than those on the Left/progressive side. I believe there are two broad reasons, building on each other. First, if you are a high IQ individual you are more amenable and comfortable with abstraction, system-building, and rationality. Various forms of Leftism, […]
Browncast Episode 56: Urbane Cowboys in the conservative wars
Another BP Podcast is up. You can listen on Libsyn, iTunes, Spotify, and Stitcher. Probably the easiest way to keep up the podcast since we don’t have a regular schedule is to subscribe at one of the links above. You can also support the podcast as a patron. The primary benefit now is that you get the podcasts considerably earlier than …
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Why marriage & fatherhood might not matter as much as you think
While I was on blogging hiatus single motherhood and the whole Dan Quayle flap came back into the news. Here’s Mitt Romney:
The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, …