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The False Gospel of Liberalism

Alan Roebuck — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:43:44 +0000

In this gospel, liberals find both an intellectually plausible explanation for their unhappiness and psychological relief from knowing that they are now on the side of the angels.

How can liberalism — an egregiously false and destructive worldview – be so wildly popular? Granted, some oddballs are attracted to an idea because it's false and destructive, but most [...]

The Case Against the Legal Left: An Open Letter to Law Professor Kermit Roosevelt

Alan Roebuck — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:59:24 +0000

If equality is the highest good, then we must eventually allow anything to be called marriage. But if anything is marriage, then marriage equals non-marriage, and marriage has been destroyed.

Dear Professor Roosevelt:

Your recent article in the Christian Science Monitor, "California's Same-Sex Marriage Case Affects All of Us," presents a clear justification for leftist principles to [...]

Theism vs Atheism: What's at Stake

Alan Roebuck — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:00:53 +0000

Unless atheists can give an account of why naturalism is true, their arguments against God all fail, and they are left with agnosticism at best.

My essay "How to Respond to a Supercilious Atheist" generated many responses from atheists and agnostics. Some were courteous, some were hostile, and a few were even supercilious. But none even came near to [...]

Conservative Reformation

Alan Roebuck — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:00:50 +0000

The ideas of liberalism currently have effective control of America, so the conservative movement must deliberately instigate a war of ideas, with the aim of retaking intellectual control of the country.

Yes, this title may appear pretentious. But just as the Protestant Reformation was a call for Christians to return to fundamental principles, so conservatism must [...]

Evolution 101

Alan Roebuck — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:08:31 +0000

If you are sure there is no miracle-working God, then something like Darwinian evolution must be correct. But if there is even a chance that such a God exists, then basic intellectual integrity demands that you take seriously the criticisms directed against Darwinism.

Ben Stein's movie Expelled shines the spotlight on the dispute between Darwinian evolution [...]

Liberalism 101

Alan Roebuck — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:00:15 +0000

We American conservatives are all, in a manner of speaking, recovering liberals, and we must constantly fight the temptation to relapse.

Conservatives, by definition, oppose liberalism. And well they should, because liberalism, with its foolish utopian schemes based on false or impractical understandings of equality, liberty and tolerance, is inflicting serious, possibly fatal harm on America. [...]

The Scientific Leftists of the Center For Inquiry

Alan Roebuck — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:00:46 +0000

According to the Center for Inquiry, science is the highest form of knowledge, trumping religion, intuition, and tradition, among other things. However, there are very good reasons to believe that science is not the highest form of knowledge.

The Center For Inquiry is an atheistic think tank and public policy organization whose fundamental goal appears to be using [...]