March 2010

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A woman head coach of a boy’s high school football team robs the players of a male role model and diminishes the bonds of male camaraderie.

With stops in Dallas and Philadelphia. The City of Brotherly Love should beware – I’ll be there the same evening as Peters, who will be lecturing at Villanova. Riot police are apparently being dispatched as we speak.

welcome front porch

. . . we rediscovered the meaning of Place. Limits. Liberty.

Ideal Curriculum

by John Willson on March 13, 2010 · 1 comment

in Short

This term gets used too much. Whenever you are exiled to a curriculum committee run as fast as if you were asked to serve on a tax-cutting committee run by Democrats. Curriculum committees are run by people who were always…

Red Torry

Phillip Blond to lecture in Washington D.C and Philadelphia – thanks to FPR

teen hulk

Will raising the legal dropout age teach troubled kids anything? Probably not.

Derbyshire in the latest TAC:
[H]ere are the Tea Partiers vowing to “take back America.” Is there any real prospect of their doing so? If the “time left for us to do so” was short in 1998, how much shorter…

The problem is that public schools inherit children who are “overentertained and distracted.”

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It’s been pretty serious around here lately. Some days you can cut the air with a hacksaw.

The concluding installment of “Art and Beauty against the Politicized Aesthetic” has appeared on First Principles, a series of essays begun in hopes of analyzing and reforming American conservatism as it exists in our day.

Truck Farm

by Mark T. Mitchell on March 9, 2010 · 4 comments

in Short

These two intrepid fellows are out to prove that good food can be grown almost anywhere. This creative garden suggests that growing at least some food is not so much a matter of space and opportunity as it is a…

Lisbon

On Earthquakes and Avatar

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I’ll take the old gal with a few well-earned wrinkles that fit soft and snug like a favorite glove. It’s the land, stupid, and boy is she a thing of stunning beauty.

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In light of the the economic crisis – and the bright light it sheds on the failings of modern capitalism – there is a need to reconsider older arguments of a “Third Way,” a social and economic system that in important respects would be neither capitalist nor socialist.