About Rightly Understood

Rightly Understood is a conservative blog written by Peter Lawler, a professor of government at Berry College, and a former member of President Bush's Council on Bioethics. The name implies that being a true conservative is all about being realistic, seeing things as they are.   We have to be right about who we are as both free and natural beings before we can have genuinely realistic moral and political opinions. Rightly understood, the common sense of ordinary people living morally responsible lives is closer to the truth than the pretensions of intellectuals who vainly exaggerate their liberated detachment from the real world we share in common.

Lawler's most recent book, "Modern and American Dignity," is available from ISI Books.

Recent Posts

• 5/22

  Let's Live Like Lobsters! (A Sensible Approach to Life Extension?)

• 5/18

  Peter Thiel's Hyper-Libertarian Cartesianism

• 5/17

  Is Social Science an Oxymoron?

• 5/16

  American Cartesianism and the Emerging Right to Same-Sex Marriage

• 5/14

  Techno-Progress "I" Can Believe in?

• 5/11

  B.H. and T.S.—Part 2

• 5/07

  B.H. Obama and T.S. Eliot

• 5/01

  Mitt and His Lit Major

• 4/29

  What Do Conservatives Really Think?—Part 1

• 4/26

  Jimmy Carter (More Than) Okay with President Romney