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Is Caning Less Cruel and Unusual than Community Service?
Political cartoon from Kenya, where the answer is evidently yes. In what was arguably the least politically correct conversation I’ve had this year, a friend and I discussed crime and punishment last … more →
Written on Our Hearts
Is Caning Less Cruel and Unusual than Community Service?
cavedog14 wrote 1 month ago: Political cartoon from Kenya, where the answer is evidently yes. In what was arguably the least poli … more →
Gandhi's Swaraj: Rule the Self, Free the World
cavedog14 wrote 2 months ago: Today marks the 140th birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, one of the most potent theologians, reformers, and … more →
Outside the Fold: Natural Law, Civil Law, and Illegal Immigration
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cavedog14 wrote 2 months ago: As Zach pointed out in his last piece here, the natural law authorizes positive, civil law written b … more →
Sunday Evening Word Play
cavedog14 wrote 2 months ago: All right, so I’m feeling a little bit creative and artistic tonight. Words are my art, whether it’s … more →
Christian Democracy, the Embodiment of Natural Law?
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cavedog14 wrote 2 months ago: I am sympathetic to the European/Latin American idea of Christian Democracy. It is founded on a natu … more →
War as the Perversion of Creation
cavedog14 wrote 2 months ago: (This piece was originally written for a Christian journal back when there was more talk of war than … more →
Politics in Pursuit of the Common, Moral Good
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cavedog14 wrote 3 months ago: Human beings are, by our natures, creative, social, and morally-oriented. That makes it particularly … more →
The Old Spice Essay
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cavedog14 wrote 3 months ago: Upon spraying myself with a good dose of Old Spice Original Body Spray the other morning, I was plea … more →
Natural Law vs. American Political Philosophy
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cavedog14 wrote 3 months ago: One of the reasons why this blog exists is the lack of breathing space given to natural law in Ameri … more →
Matt Cavedon's New Blog
Matt Cavedon wrote 3 months ago: Want to think about human nature, reason, morality, and the world? Panelist Matt Cavedon has started … more →
Ramadan: the Simple, Natural Life
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cavedog14 wrote 3 months ago: Ramadan kareem, ya asdiqa’iee min ad-deen Islam! A blessed Ramadan to you, my friends from the Islam … more →
Redemption, Shawshank-Style
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cavedog14 wrote 3 months ago: This week, I finally watched the critically-acclaimed 1994 blockbuster, The Shawshank Redemption, st … more →
Humanity Lives Under a Natural Law
cavedog14 wrote 3 months ago: In the Letter to the Romans, St. Paul wrote: “For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instincti … more →
The Right to Health Care is Wrong
Matt Cavedon wrote 4 months ago: Cross-posted at the Acton PowerBlog History shows us that civil rights can exist as nothing more tha … more →
Tax Man Aims to Take a Bigger Bite Out of Junk Food Junkies
Matt Cavedon wrote 4 months ago: (Originally published as an Acton Weekly Commentary at http://is.gd/1SOcY) Faced with high obesity r … more →
A Theory of Gift, Duty, and Rights Based on Caritas in Veritate
Matt Cavedon wrote 5 months ago: (Originally published by the Acton PowerBlog at blog.acton.org) One of Pope Benedict XVI’s great emp … more →
International Governance in Caritas in Veritate and The Road to Serfdom
Matt Cavedon wrote 5 months ago: (Originally published by the Acton PowerBlog at blog.acton.org) In his new encyclical, Caritas in Ve … more →
The State at Fault: Why No-Fault Divorce is Wrecking Marriage
Matt Cavedon wrote 5 months ago: (Originally published by UWIRE at http://uwireforum.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/the-state-at-fault-why- … more →
Pay it Forward: Transforming the way we do welfare
Matt Cavedon wrote 5 months ago: (Originally published by UWIRE at http://uwireforum.wordpress.com/) Matt Cavedon is working for the … more →
