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Greg R. Lawson's Blog
http://www.gregrlawson.com
A conservative perspective on foreign policy, geopolitics, domestic issues, and the meaning of history and life.
Recent Posts
Origins of Religion and Nietzche\'s Challenge
A thought provoking post over at the Coming Anarchy blog regarding the potential biological foundations for religion. This actually correlates to a number of posts over at Darwinian Conservatism. I raise a question in the first comment to...
EU as Frankenstein\'s Monster
An interesting article over at the Atlantic Community about the challenges that the EU has, especially after their recent election of two virtual non-entities as EU President and High Commissioner for Foreign Policy. The article seems to posit ...
Discovering the American Mind
Received the "On Principles" newsletter from the Askbrook Center today. In it, Director Peter Schramm wrote an excellent essay on discovering the American mind.The below section, where he quotes Lincoln is quite poetic and encapsulates exac...
The Stalin Prism or is Evil Forgotten?
I have been reading the magisterial Modern Times by Paul Johnson. It is striking to me how much death and destruction Stalin wreaked upon his own nation as well as most of Eastern Europe. Manmade famines, purges, show trials, the pact wit...
Happy Thanksgiving!
No matter what one's partisan persuasion, today is a day to be thankful for the greatness of America and, just as importantly, the sacrifices made to accomplish this. It is also a time to reflect on God and our belief in that which makes us, st...
Obama\'s Afghanistan Policy
It appears President Obama is about to unveil his long awaitied re-calibration of Afghan policy. Leslie Gelb, a former President of the Couincil on Foreign Relations, is giving a sneak peak in this article. It appears his policy will be m...

