Our military is off defending Afghanistan and Iraq from themselves while our Financial Titans are rescued to live another day of utterly neglecting the welfare of the Republic.
July 2010
Long time friend of FPR, Michael Brendan Dougherty, has a new blog. Go read it.
On why his blog has no comments: “They boost traffic and make people feel they are part of a community … a community of tiresome…
Whether left or right, the ethical education of those we send to fight should concern us all.
Tradition supposedly bears the thumbprints of Roman patricians with browbeaten wives or frustrated monks who shivered in mediæval abbeys.
Keeping alive a print vehicle for independent, thoughtful conservatism depends on us.
Yesterday’s ruling in the Arizona immigration law matter by Federal District Judge Susan Bolton is reverberating around the internet today. Most of the heat is generated by the substantive policy question of illegal immigration, however, the deeper agitating factor is…
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark” provides a springboard for reflecting on the problems of scientism, especially the temptation to self-deification and, what Eric Voegelin terms, modern Gnosticism.
In which Bill Kauffman bids a hopeful aloha to the American Imperium.
Or, “Can you hear me in the back? Why don’t we all move in a little closer…” My latest column in the absolutely essential American Conservative:
http://www.amconmag.com/blog/the-loneliness-of-the-long-dissonant-reader/.…
Micro-breweries as model of government. Decentralized, local, small-scale, and kick-ass.
If your doctor had this same track record of diagnosing and treating disease, you’d be dead by now.
Could it be that there is a growing awareness that work–labor that actually results in something of value–and honesty are virtues worth preserving?
Look around and you’ll see that the seeds planted by the New Left have not all fallen on hard ground. I think maybe they’re ready to flower.
One of the key flashpoints over the identity of the Church has been the notion of inclusivity. When my church-related school redid its mission statement a couple of years ago, those who wanted an expansive statement that moved the school…
Might Steinbrenner be to professional baseball what an agribusiness is to farming?
Big Questions Online makes its appearance.
