Claremont, CA…. ABC’s hit series “Modern Family” has returned to the air for its second season.
It’s the “modern” elements of the “Modern Family” that you’re supposed to notice right away. The family patriarch, Jay, has divorced his children’s
September 2010
Shades of things to come?
Home is where the grief is.
The answer is hardly obvious.
For Wendell Berry, the environmentalist cause and the localist cause are (or should be) one and the same.
You’ll never guess what nation David B. Hart thinks qualifies for this title.
For instruction in civilization, nothing beats a small town.
Ah, you know what? Screw it. Give me the hairshirts wherever they are.
I was the featured speaker at September’s Washington D.C. “Conservatism on Tap.” My topic: “Is There a Conservative Tradition in America?” I’ll post my talk here soon. Stay tuned.…
Is the meaning of a feast forfeited when the fast is no longer observed?
The fundamental reason why American children are not educated properly is simply because the American people do not want their children to be educated properly.
My latest column from the American Conservative: http://www.amconmag.com/blog/slogans-heroes.…
A reflection on Constitution as regime, by the late Wilson Carey McWilliams
Is being Number One all it’s cracked up to be?
Rumor has it there will be Front Porchers at this year’s Prairie Festival.
“Fear and pity are made out of grammar,” he writes, and in this most particular grammatical unit he finds the fabric of tragedy itself.
