A Tenancy of Will
Your body’s yours, just as this poem is mine: to make, destroy—a tenancy of will, for every citizen and concubine.
Academy of Philosophy and Letters Annual Meeting
Creeping Tyranny: From Constitutionalism to Arbitrary Power
Groovin’ with Arthur Schlesinger
The great libertarian journalist Jesse Walker calls this Cold War liberal folkery (http://reason.com/blog/2010/05/27/you-hit-me-baby-like-an-atomic) “the most earnest song ever written.” Hilariously bad. Enjoy!
DON’T SHOOT THAT MOCKINGBIRD!
Besides, the harshest criticisms of any place come from those who truly love and belong to it.
Ingratitude and the Death of Freedom
The hubris of ingratitude is a caustic acid that reduces all in its wake to the fetid condition of servitude, for a spoiled child needs nothing so much as a master.
Subsidizing Profligacy
Legendary investor Seth Klaman on how the government has taught everyone a bad lesson.
Wrong Lesson, Senator
Soon-to-be-former United States Senator from Utah, Bob Bennett, gives some advice to the Tea Party activists who helped unseat him at Utah GOP convention: don’t be like Jimmy Carter, be like Ronald Reagan. I think he has it exactly ba...
Will Allen and Urban Farming
Bringing sustainable food growing practices to the urban poor.
John William Corrington: A Literary Conservative
It seemed a good time to get out and leave the classroom to idiots who couldn’t learn and didn’t know better, and imbeciles who couldn’t teach and should have known better.
Membership
We are here, in part, because choices made in big places have worked against rural places and rural people.