The Great Big Society
David Cameron is crystallizing his agenda. We’ve all been wondering what a post-Thatcherian Conservative PM would look like, and now…
Phillip Blond and the small, beautiful polity
Everyone is getting their shot at a Philip Blond point right now: the Brooks column, Deneen and Rod the Bod…
Identifiably evangelical
The rise of a new conservative grass roots fueled by a secular revulsion at government spending is stirring fears among leaders…
Malachi 4:6
“And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, And the hearts of the children to their…
Attack at Sea World
Dan Drezner writes for Foreign Policy that an apple needs to be called an apple, and a Killer Whale needs…
Facts and Values at the Texas Board of Education
Edward Kennedy or Billy Graham? Margaret Sanger or Phyllis Schlafly? Who is more important? In the war over education content,…
Thoughts on Wittgenstein
Logic is everything we know. In some sense. Ludwig Wittgenstein and logic Ludwig Wittgenstein’s examinations into the where logic can take…
The ’10s
Decade Predictions 1. Republicans in general will not take on much less of religious persona in the ‘10s, but Democrats…
Film Review: The Baader-Meinhof Complex
The Baader-Meinhof Complex is an investigation into the culture of anti-culture, and the psychologies of disintegration and justification. This…
Self-Sufficiency and Conservatism
Politico’s Ben Smith thinks he smells a link between gold and populism, but asks why Glenn Beck’s populism likes gold…
Ideology and History in American Politics
When traditional conservatives, or Burkean conservatives, or paleoconservatives talk about their conservatism, they like to emphasize its opposition to ideological…
Legend vs. YouTube
Did you hear about the 9 year old who wowed Boston hockey with a spectacular goal? It looked like he…
Questions about Indie Music and My Soul
P.J. O’Rourke thinks Woodstock was juvenile, meaningless, and overhyped. I can’t speak for the beats and riffs of his generation,…
Skyscrapers and Penetration
I used to worry that there were weird creatures lurking in my room at night. I avoided stepping on cracks,…
Some Other Friends Weigh In on Health Care
(This post is inspired by David Brooks’s column yesterday, Bentham v. Hume. I have some other friends who may add…
Intentional Community and the yuppie in me
Harmony Hazard, 24, wanted “A safe place for book groups and hula hoops”; Sara Teitelbaum, 23, wanted “People to bring…
The Nuclear Option
The President has effected a significant move toward “nuclear disarmament” (we all know the actual meaning is a more vague…
National Education Standards are not even Technocratic
The New York Times has a roundtable on the traction that the Common Core Standards Initiative is working on: The…
Initial and Additional Thoughts on Suffering and Faith
I give in. A blog just isn’t a blog without commenting on that bloggiest of blogs … The Daily Dish….
The Greenest Pope in History
Is Benedict XVI a “green pope”? Some Catholics think so. Maybe even the greenest pope. The Acton Institute disagrees: The problem,…