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Natural Law on the streets of Amsterdam
A city that doesn’t follow the order of nature is like a woman who’s “had some work done.” When things are made artificially, well…you can always tell.
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More than Roosevelt
The environmental conservative can rest upon more than Roosevelt. He can rest upon the limits by which the natural world operates.
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A Lesson in Stewardship
The cushy modern liberal mind has subtly altered the proper definition of stewardship, perverting its meaning and reducing it to impotence.
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Conservatives and State Capacity
Because state capacity is concerned with prudence and good governance, it is harmonious with the conservative statesman’s aims.
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All the Stars we Never See
In our most glorious and technologically advanced places, no one can see the stars. Is our glory, namely our technology, mutually exclusive with the glory of God?
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An Ecological Critique of Liberalism
Like in nature, our relations are intimately interconnected; our whole depends on all its parts. Any ideology that advocates for radical individualism, like the liberal paradigm, thus threatens to untangle the interconnected and mutually beneficial web we are.
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Liberalism and the Folly of Reason
Because humans are sinful, an ideology based upon the sheer power of human reason alone to solve all ills is destined for failure. It is destined to beget a multitude of sins.
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The Parallels of Pollution and Sin: An Earth Month Reflection
This Saturday morning, bright and cool and crisp, my friends and I helped clean a portion of Rivers Avenue in North Charleston, one of a series of litter cleanups we are hosting this April in honor of Earth Month. Though we devoted a full morning to the cause, to my amazement we managed to clean…
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The Church and Integral Ecology
The modern environmental movement prides itself on the connection it has drawn between environmental health and social health, manifested in ubiquitous calls for “environmental justice.” At best, this movement amicably recognizes that the poor should not suffer an undue burden of pollution and heavy industry. At worst, it is seized upon by parties who see…
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On Freedom and Order
When I was younger, like many teenage boys I stylized myself as a libertarian. Dogged and fiercely independent, I thought that no one in the government had the right to regulate me or tell me what to do. When I surveyed the failures present around me, it seemed undeniable that everything the government touched fell…
Thoughts of an Environmental Conservative 