Rock Island,IL…
Chesterton, it is said, could compose an essay while dictating another to his secretary. So prolific a writer as he should have produced more hack-work than your average weekend columnist, yet hardly anything he wrote ever sat still
December 2009
Some thinkers on the Left have sniffed the smelling salts and are emerging from their love-fest to notice that the New Boss is increasingly indistinguishable from the Old Boss. As I predicted. Note that the mainstream Right has found much…
Claremont, CA…. When my mother came to visit last week, she brought a copy of The Yiddish Policeman’s Union with her. Before she departed for the airport this morning, she left the book on my shelf.
And just like
I have long thought there was no more corrupt person in college football than Jim Tressel, but I am conceding the honor to Brian Kelly, the new head football coach at Notre Dame. It’s not just that the most visible…
The Prince of Peace—rather a seditious title in our age of Homeland Security and endless war, eh? “Love thy neighbor” and “Thou Shalt Not Kill” were no less subversive 95 years ago, when of a silent night soldiers simply stopped fighting. (Much to…
Erie, PA.… Presidential speeches are evaluated in two basic areas, style/delivery and substance. President Obama’s Afghanistan speech was well delivered. The president appeared serious, determined, candid, and was articulate. Coming on the heels of a president who was often awkward
The celebration of Jesus Christ’s birth gives us an opportunity not only to act upon the principles of peace, sharing, and selflessness, but also to pass them onto our children in the form of Christmas presents.
I have just returned from one of the most remarkable journeys of my life, a ten day tour of Romania to promote an anthology of distributist and localist essays, Economic Freedom: The Renaissance of Deep Romania. Each day brought a…
County Kildare, Ireland. …A couple I know – we’ll call them Bob and Nancy — lived in a century-old house in the middle of their town, a few miles from their jobs and surrounded by long-time neighbours. When the last
Devon, PA. …In February 2007, as the Iraq war crept to the end of its fourth year, I published this short essay, proposing a few notions on foreign policy that I had rattling in my head. When writing it, I
Rock Island, IL…
Alexander Pope, who was right more often than the rest of us put together, said that “truth will buoy up at last.”
That’s all well and good and accurate enough, I suppose, but the problem is that
As reported in today’s Washington Post, in an article entitled “In Debate Over Nation’s Growing Debt, a Surplus of Worry.”
Leonard Burman, [a Syracuse University ] economist, says he has developed a computer model that shows that a “catastrophic budget…
In Greenwich at Rush Hour and thinking Kauffman’s suggestion to go see Father Boyd speak his wisdom on Chesterton a good one, I reluctantly headed further into the maw of gridlock. Is two hours of bumper to bumper traffic in…
Patrick just posted that the great man himself was heard describing Michelle ma’ Belle’s kitchen garden as the “most important plot of land in America.”
Patrick tells me that in context, Berry was talking about how everyone should grow something…
