August 7, 2020/
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I’m not a divine command theorist, but the position is far more serious than moral philosophers think. One reason for this is that most moral philosophers don’t take theism seriously,…
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All the Kingdoms of the World is still on sale, with a paperback on the way! pic.twitter.com/TSGwnCyciN
— Kevin Vallier (@kvallier) November 6, 2024
Reasonable move from Bernie. If Musk is consistent, he has to make cuts to the military budget. Bernie also knows those cuts will prove unpopular on the right, so he hopes to hobble Musk before he gets started cutting the waste that Bernie likes. Of course. In response, Musk… https://t.co/2pRbVYR8bC
— Kevin Vallier (@kvallier) December 2, 2024
August 1, 2020/
I’m in the odd position of being a liberal and an Eastern Orthodox Christian. Eastern Orthodoxy is the least liberal of the strands of Christian thought, and indeed is the…
July 26, 2020/
I’ve just finished reading Grandstanding by my friends Brandon Warmke and Justin Tosi. It’s a marvelous little book and is both well-written and well-argued. I did find myself a bit saddened by…
July 17, 2020/
One of the important features of cancel norms is that cancelation is a punishment. The “cancelers” aren’t in the business of simply shutting down a line of argument, or silencing…
July 10, 2020/
As I finish copyediting and page proofing for my next book, Trust in a Polarized Age, I’ve been thinking about my next big book project. I’ve become increasingly interested in exploring…
July 8, 2020/
Important victories for religious liberty today, but the Little Sisters decision far from settles their “legal odyssey” (as Alito puts it). All that happened is that the Court let the…
July 1, 2020/
TRAP laws (Targeted Regulations of Abortion) have become an important policy tool for the pro-life movement at the state level. They’ve used these laws to effectively close many abortion clinics,…
June 26, 2020/
One of the only promising political developments as of late is the possibility of policing reform, in some way to change the incentives that the police face in order to…
June 26, 2020/
In this post, I offer the simplest compelling argument against Catholic Integralism that I know of. It is based on the Mortara Case, where Pope Pius IX, sovereign of the…