Mouth-Breathing Morons, Slurpee-Sucking Geeks, and Beer-Drinking Dufuses
In That Hideous Strength, C. S. Lewis warned that if man tried to conquer nature, he would only succeed in…
Ted Kennedy and Mixed Government
I didn’t plan on writing anything today, but sometimes one just finds something worth sharing – especially when one reads…
Re: English Liberty and American Liberty (Part II)
Various traditions in subsequent American political history have rejected Tocqueville’s distinction. The Confederate states rejected it, arguing for an ideological…
Re: English Liberty and American Liberty (Part I)
Recent conversations here have dealt frequently with “big government,” and with a chic alternative to big government in both its FDR and Bush varieties, namely Front Porch Republic localism.
Forgotten Music
Everyone knows that a lot of people these days tend to prefer texting to talking. College roommates converse via Gchat from five feet away. Fox News ran a story a few weeks ago of a girl who was so intent on her texting that she fell into an open manhole.
Tashlan: Brian McLaren’s Non-Islamic Ramadan
Apparently emergent church writer Brian McLaren is celebrating Ramadan: “This year, I, along with a few Christian friends (and perhaps…
On Moral Imagination
“But now all is to be changed. All the pleasing illusions, which made power gentle, and obedience wholesale NBA jerseys…
Reflections on Brooks, Arnold and the Future
David Brooks's column today, entitled "The Power of Posterity," is an excellent illustration of Burke's point that the real "social…