In Spite of Ourselves
Jace Yarbrough: Is America still the home of the brave? There are some good reasons why it shouldn’t be. Jace…
Modernism
The Merits of a National Object
Zachary Crippen: Manned space isn’t on the agenda, nation-building has lost its appeal, and huge government programs are hardly conservative….
Skyscrapers and Penetration
I used to worry that there were weird creatures lurking in my room at night. I avoided stepping on cracks,…
The Enemy, He Is Us
A painful anecdote: I recently re-watched the 2006 German film “The Lives of Others,” and I was moved yet again…
Political Philosophy and Science
Political theory, when it is interesting, deals with issues of human nature and how to organize it. A conservative will…
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…
Modernist Watch: Money and Happiness
Catchy headlines sell newspapers. Given that industry’s trouble state, we shouldn’t be surprised to see an uptick in the “desperation-for-relevance”…
Patrick Deneen and the modernist flaws of the Founders
Patrick Deneen recently posted his argument that the Framers of the U.S. Constitution designed a regime predicated on problematic modernist…