Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy » Stephen Baskerville

How to Turn a Free People into Slaves

Stephen Baskerville — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:00:06 +0000

Using instruments of public criminal justice to punish private hurts turns the family into government-occupied territory.

Today, it is becoming equally commonplace that this spirit of liberty is leaving Americans, that we are becoming “a nation of sheep,” as Judge Andrew Napolitano puts it in a new book, who acquiesce in the progressive abrogation [...]

Totalitarianism in America

Stephen Baskerville — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:00:15 +0000

Conservatives have played a role in the decline in our family law system, by credulously swallowing feminist propaganda about “deadbeat dads,” “pedophile” fathers, and wife-beaters.

Mass incarcerations without trial or charge; forced confessions; children forcibly separated from their parents with no reasons given; doctored hearing transcripts and falsified court records; evidence fabricated against the innocent; [...]

Advice to Young Men: Do Not Marry, Do Not Have Children

Stephen Baskerville — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:54:03 +0000

Spreading this message may be the most effective method of saving marriage as an institution.

Marriage is a foundation of civilized life. No advanced civilization has ever existed without the married, two-parent family. Those who argue that our civilization needs healthy marriages to survive are not exaggerating.

And yet I cannot, in good conscience, urge [...]

Alec Baldwin and Parens Patriae

Stephen Baskerville — Tue, 22 May 2007 01:00:39 +0000

Since when did every parent in America become answerable to the media and the government for what they say to their children?

Actor Alec Baldwin has been raked over the coals for a phone call he made to his daughter. It was not a very nice phone call, but then most of [...]