Is the Christian believer conservative or liberal?

Kant: Friend or Foe of the Believer? Plantinga and Other American Christian Responses to Kant's Epistemology

Liberal Versus Conservative Stinks

In a recent Public Opinion Quarterly article “Is the Academy a Liberal Hegemony?,” John Zipp and Rudy Fenwick pit themselves against “right-wing activists and scholars,” citing our scholarship (Klein and Stern in Academic Questions 18(1): 40–52, 2005a; Klein and Western in Academic Questions 18(1): 53–65, 2005). Here, we analyze Zipp and Fenwick’s characterization of our research and find it fa...

Liberal or Conservative? Genetic Rhetoric, Disability, and Human Species Modification

A certain political rhetoric is implicit and sometimes explicit in the advocacy of human genetic modification (indicating here both the enhancement and the prevention of disability). The main claim is that it belongs to a liberal tradition. From a perspective supplied by the history and philosophy of science rather than by ethics, the content of that claim is examined to see if such a self-desc...

Conservative versus Liberal Worldviews and Introspective Thought

Previous research has hypothesized that conservative ideologies are the result of a worldview within which the world is viewed as a dangerous and threatening place, and where individuals are essentially hedonistic and need extrinsic rules in order to behave morally. Research has also indicated that conservatives are generally higher in authoritarianism, intolerance for ambiguity, dogmatism, and...

On Why the United States Should Not Attack Iran: A Conservative, Evangelical Christian Response

In the midst of American intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq, and in the aftermath of the presidential election in Iran, support for American involvement in Iran has increased in some circles. In this piece, our desire is to give a conservative, evangelical Christian response to why America should not support any military action against Iran. A position advocated by many of us is “Just War.” I...