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Chalcedon podcast hosts, Martin Selbrede and Andrea Schwartz, discuss Chapter 5 of Rushdoony's powerful book Law and Liberty on "Law and Nature."

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Chalcedon podcast hosts, Martin Selbrede and Andrea Schwartz, discuss Chapter 4 of Rushdoony's powerful book Law and Liberty on "The Politics of Pornography."

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The basic form of education is the liberal arts curriculum, i.e., the curriculum whose purpose is to further the art of being a free man. The problem, of course, is that there are differing definitions of what constitutes a free man. Even within humanism, there are variations of belief. In the Western world, we have the cynicism of Machiavelli concerning man, and hence the need for the control of most men by the superior few. We have Locke’s passive, neutral man whose mind is a blank paper, and we also have the good, natural man, derived from one facet of Rousseau’s thought.

Some humanists have summarized the issue as between the ideas of man as pilot and man as robot. In the man as robot view, most men need the planning and control of an elite group of men in order to achieve a “planned freedom.� A Hebrew myth derived from Babylon, tells of another woman in Adam’s life, the female demon Lilith. Buford Stefflre cites this myth and asks, “Left to his own devices, will man woo Lilith or Eve?�

These various forms of humanism all assume either a common goodness or neutrality in all men, or else a common evil which an elite group can escape. This evil thus is curable by man. The elite group can then control and direct all other men for their own welfare and gain a freedom for all men through the mediation of the elite philosopher king or scientific, planning man. Freedom is thus a possibility for man through man and by natural means. The two basic instruments for the natural salvation of man are, first, education, and, second, state planning and control. Both these instruments are in full use today. Read the rest of this article...

Start with a few islands of Christianity in a raging sea of paganism, with Islam on the offensive everywhere; add a wide expectation of the imminent end of the world; shake violently for just short of 300 years … and what have you got?

A Europe Christianized from the Atlantic Ocean to the Volga River, from the fjords of Norway to the fields of Sicily—not only Christianized, but going on the attack against Islam and capturing Jerusalem. How in the world could that have happened?

Answering that question is a vast undertaking—hardly the job for a science fiction and horror novelist. But Tom Holland also has a Ph.D. in history from Oxford and brings a unique set of talents to the task. Given the magnitude of the project, he deserves at least an “A� for ambition.

Far from being an arid academic tome, Holland’s book lays out history as a novelist would tell a story. The story has a plot, main characters, a central problem to be solved, and the solution, all supported by a lively, readable prose. Maybe being a successful novelist is not such a bad qualification for a historian, after all.

Nevertheless, the reader who has no passion for history may wind up staggering under the sheer weight of the information conveyed—most of it unfamiliar, even exotic. Mr. Holland’s opus will require a degree of commitment from the reader that he may not be equipped to give. Read the rest of this review...