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I have been interning in Washington DC for about two weeks now. It has been incredible. I recently got my computer back from Dell because it needed repair. So, I will be writing more often now.
During the course of these two weeks I have worked on nuclear public policy with Heritage Research fellow Jack Spencer, talked to Ed Meese about law school, spent 1.5 hours with Clarence Thomas in the Supreme Court, and had some incredible times with the guys at Capitol Hill Baptist Church. I am so blessed.
I also have a lot of pictures to reveal, but one of my personal favorites is below:
Much Much More to come!!!
“Economic leveling is not economic progress.”
- Russell Kirk, The Conservative Mind
A glimpse into the nuclear program of Iran:
It is only with extreme difficulty that we are able to build a nuclear power plant in the United States. Why would Iran plow through layers of international pressure to build a nuclear plant for “peaceful means?” It is naive to believe Iran is embracing nuclear power in order to ensure clean, dependable energy for Iranians. They want more.
I believe that we must not forget a crucial part of conservatism that is often overlooked: the “Belief in a transcendent order, or body of natural law, which rules society as well as conscience.” It seems many conservatives have given up fighting for a spiritual perspective that recognizes Providence’s place in the world. I think we should, at times, attempt to elevate debate to a higher level because “political problems, at bottom, are religious and moral problems.”
This is the same fight Edmund Burke embraced 200 years ago. Radicalism at the end of the 18th century argued that “if there is divine authority in the universe, it differs sharply in its nature from the Christian idea of God…man naturally is benevolent, generous, healthy-souled, but in this age is corrupt by institutions.” Burke “conceded his enemies not one premise. He began and ended his campaign for the conservation of society upon the grand design of piety; in his reverent eyes, the whole of earthily reality was an expression of a moral order.” Do we need to focus on “legislating morality”(whatever that means)? Probably not. However, neglecting the fight for Christian principles is an invitation, that the left will not decline, to legislate immorality. It is time for conservatives to humbly defend an eternal perspective that is increasingly unpopular in our world of radical change.
