It’s Rousseau’s Fault
David Carlin: Although the Age of Romanticism is long faded, the romantic virus has not disappeared; it lingers in our cultural bloodstream.
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David Carlin: Although the Age of Romanticism is long faded, the romantic virus has not disappeared; it lingers in our cultural bloodstream.
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Hadley Arkes relates a discussion between Johnson and Boswell: Without free will, there may be neither evil nor love and creative imagination.
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Casey Chalk reviews the new book by Protestant Carl R. Trueman. It argues for “natural law and a high view of the physical body.”
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David Carlin: Leftists believe that once people aren’t “oppressed,” the fundamental goodness of human nature will flourish. But it never will without God.
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