Posts by: Andrew Walker
What potential presidential candidate has started a private “Christ-centered” Christian school aimed at serving the poor? What potential presidential candidate and current governor won re-election in 2008 even though then-candidate Obama won the state’s electoral vote? What potential presidential candidate is said to be “totally pro-life and walks the walk”—the same potential candidate who has [...]
Jennifer Rubin, The Washington Post’s conservative beat reporter, has an all-out assault on Rick Santorum’s constitutional views—going so far as to call him “constitutionally illiterate” and “un-conservative” when Santorum suggested that a so-called “truce” on social issues is a gross misunderstanding of American political life. While Rubin’s insult strikes me as an extreme and unnecessary [...]
Below is a video featuring Dr. Robert George, noted ethicist, jurist, and political philosopher discussing the social impact of America having enshrined pornography in its culture for the past 50 years. Of interest to readers of Mere Orthodoxy is George’s phrasing of pornography around the issue of human dignity. George seems to be quite right [...]
As I mentioned earlier in the week, there’s been a great discussion going over at Bensonian.org on Terry Eagleton’s book Why Marx Was Right. As an avowed non-Marxist, I was somewhat surprised to be invited to participate in the discussion, but was happy to do so. Today, my post has been unveiled. Titled, “Administrative Tyranny: [...]
Christopher Benson at Bensonian.org, has unveiled his introductory post on the blog tour of Terry Eagleton’s newest book, Why Marx Was Right. Organized by Yale University Press, Christopher’s site will have four different reactions each to a different chapter of Eagleton’s book. Contributors include Jonathan Fitzgerald, Jake Meador, Albert Lee, and myself. Spirited engagement will [...]
This week, Mere-O unveiled its interview with Mark Tooley. As with the rest of our content, we hope that you found Tooley’s responses insightful and encouraging. In most settings, interviews often raise more questions than they answer. We hope our time with Mark Tooley has been no different. To re-cap, you can find the interviews [...]
AW: Who is your all-time favorite political philosopher? Theologian? Do the two ever inform the other? MT: John Locke would seem to be the most important philosopher of Anglo-American limited government. As a Methodist, of course John Wesley is my favorite theologian! Wesley read Locke, of course. Wesley himself was very much in agreement with [...]
AW: As a political conservative, where has evangelicalism failed in your opinion? MT: Obviously, evangelicals were mostly late to the resistance against abortion on demand. Too many, I think, confused it with birth control, or understood it as a mostly Catholic issue. That has mostly corrected, and evangelicals seem pretty solidly pro-life, at least in sentiment, [...]
AW: Can you describe the way in which your Christian worldview has informed your political worldview? MT: My Christian worldview is that humanity is by nature totally depraved and completely dependent on God’s grace. Political arrangements that ignore this realty inevitably result in disastrous human suffering. The American/British model of limited, divided government has been successful, [...]
Last September, Matthew Anderson and I journeyed to Washington D.C. for the annual Values Voter Summit. While there, we had the privilege of having a late night dinner with Mark Tooley, President of The Institute on Religion and Democracy. The pressing topic of our conversation was the apparent shifting attitude of younger evangelicals toward political [...]
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