Human Beings Conceive and Give Birth to Human Beings

R. Scott Clark

on January 22, 2013

Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image (Gen 9:6; ESV). I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it . . . Continue reading →

The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same

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on April 24, 2013 | 2 Comments

I think what we’ve learned in Britain is that we’ve gradually, over the last certainly 12 or 13 years, with perhaps a little interruption, gone slowly further and further away from the free society towards something else…. At the same time we’ve . . . Continue reading →

J. Gresham Machen on Jaywalking and Civil Freedom: Watch This Video

R. Scott Clark

on May 15, 2013 | 29 Comments

J. Gresham Machen (1881–1936) was a scholar of the New Testament who taught at Princeton Theological Seminary. He, along with several others, left Princeton in 1929 to found Westminster Seminary. He was driven out of what is today known as the Presbyterian . . . Continue reading →

Orwell on Freedom of the Press

R. Scott Clark

on August 11, 2013

[Orwell’s original 1945 preface to Animal Farm. It was discovered by Ian Angus and published by Bernard Crick in the TLS in 1972]. This book was first thought of, so far as the central idea goes, in 1937, but was not written . . . Continue reading →

Orwell: The Danger Of An All-Prevailing Orthodoxy

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on August 12, 2013 | 2 Comments

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is ‘not done’ to . . . Continue reading →

An Insurance Company With A Navy

R. Scott Clark

on January 16, 2014 | 1 Comment

Most of us were taught that government exists to provide for the common defense—a military and a social-safety net—but the actual budgets show that our government has become a big insurance company that also runs a navy. Read more» —Ben Sasse January . . . Continue reading →

The Utopia Of Leisure

R. Scott Clark

on February 13, 2014 | 2 Comments

in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wished, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to . . . Continue reading →

A New Dark Age

R. Scott Clark

on March 25, 2014 | 14 Comments

Independence And The Practice Of The Faith

R. Scott Clark

on July 4, 2014 | 1 Comment

On Independence Day 2014 we should remember that one of the principal concerns of the founders of the Republic was the freedom not only to assemble for public worship but also to practice one’s religion. Since the so-called (and self-described) Enlightenment of . . . Continue reading →

The Difference Between Tolerance And Approval

R. Scott Clark

on August 12, 2014 | 1 Comment

All right, then. I understand there are men who have not attained the healthy masculine nature I hope my son will attain. I don’t make fun of them. I don’t wish them ill. I count some among my friends. I extend to . . . Continue reading →

It’s All about Eschatology

R. Scott Clark

on April 9, 2015 | 4 Comments

…advocacy of big government is by its very nature a quest for power and control, for the ability to use force against others—a cause that naturally attracts the bitter and intolerant. …beneath all of these factors, there is something deeper, something more . . . Continue reading →

Socialism: The Utopia That Ends In Misery

R. Scott Clark

on March 15, 2016 | 1 Comment

No doubt the stated intentions are oh-so-pure and oh-so-good, like “liberte, egalite, fraternite.” It’s the sort of compassion Flannery O’Connor wrote of when she noted that “tenderness leads to the gas chamber.” That’s because, at the end of the day, socialism is . . . Continue reading →

Johannes Althusius (1557–1638): A Brief Introduction To A Pioneering Reformed Social Theorist

R. Scott Clark

on March 21, 2016

Introduction We seem to live in a Malthusian age, i.e., an age of increasing scarcity or perhaps fear of scarcity, where concern over how to divide an economic (and environmental) pie of limited size (called a “zero sum game”) has replaced the . . . Continue reading →

Sasse Talking Sense In The Senate On The Constitution

R. Scott Clark

on April 26, 2017 | 1 Comment

Incremental Steps Toward Punishing Politically Incorrect Speech?

R. Scott Clark

on September 3, 2021 | 3 Comments

The San Diego County Board Tuesday evening adopted a resolution declaring misinformation a “public health crisis.”res Continue reading →

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