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September 15, 2023September 16, 2023Web
Inherited Traditions Are More Credible Than Natural Rights
Chronicles Editor Paul Gottfried explains why the moral and legal foundations of America are found in religion and custom, not Enlightenment natural rights, which can be interpreted ever-leftward and lead to intolerance and aggression.
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April 4, 2023May 1, 2023Remembering the Right
Remembering Herbert Butterfield
Herbert Butterfield formulated a political theory of limited liberalism around his Augustinian Christianity, which tempered personal liberty with the recognition of man's fallen nature.
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March 1, 2023April 10, 2023Society & Culture
Of Innovators and Men
The forces of innovation, guided by the power elite, are directed against traditional societies and the objective moral order.
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November 1, 2022December 2, 2022Remembering the Right
Remembering Michael Oakeshott
Michael Oakeshott warned that rationalism in politics leads to rigid, rule-bound governance, and to the imposition of the state's enterprise over and against the free association of individuals.