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Spending our children’s inheritance

Posted on October 19, 2012 by

Tweet One of the gems in Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France is his description of the tradition threatened by the social engineering of the French Revolution as an “entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and … Continue reading →

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Defending traditional marriage at UVU ethics week

Posted on September 20, 2012 by

Tweet Utah Valley University’s Center for the Study of Ethics very kindly invited me to give a speech on “The Meaning of Traditional Marriage” on Sept. 18 as part of an Ethics Awareness Week In the speech I tried to explain … Continue reading →

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Lord Acton and the correct meaning of liberty

Posted on July 30, 2012 by

Tweet A very confused and overzealous friend believes that John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton (Lord Acton, 1834-1902) was a libertarian by today’s standards. This confused friend also thinks my use of a quote from Acton’s writings about liberty being “the right … Continue reading →

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