A poet and he didn’t know it
Terry Eagleton is “certainly not urging [people] to go to church.” But he accidentally makes a good point. His interview with The Immanent…
Old People, National Politics, and Protest: or, Uncertainty as an effective strategy
NY Times: American politics has been defined by gender gaps, racial gaps, geographic gaps and the gap between the religious…
Political Philosophy and Science
Political theory, when it is interesting, deals with issues of human nature and how to organize it. A conservative will…
What is the Middle Class?
Never pejorative, always claimed, the salvation of society, the vigor of industry, the bearers of true religion, common sense, able,…
The Great Fire – in requiem
September 2 is the anniversary of the Great Fire of London, 1666. One of the most tragic and iconic single…
Guilt is Good
The New York Times has published an article called “Guilt and Atonement on the Path to Adulthood,” mainly about some…
English Liberty and American Liberty: Thoughts on Mixed Constitution
Americans find it difficult to distinguish between a liberty and a right, and we find it impossible to tie a…
Plato and the purpose of knowledge
“[T]he Platonist ideology (at least in the Straussian view) is that its zetetic character is meant as an antidote to…
The Rump clarified
An important comment on the Rump post: 1) What is your definition of neo-conservatism? I’ve heard it used more as an…
The Rump, or the Ongoing Dirty Debate
What of the anti-healthcare protests? Would you stand up? The Rump Republican party is not going away any time soon,…
Imagination and Abstraction
Conservatives, in reaction to Rousseauean liberalism, have become good at understanding how the government ends up becoming a deified abstraction….
Personhood and Moral Imagination
Peter Lawler on History and the temporality of the Human Person: For the Christian, the destiny of each of us…