With avidity and pleasure I’ve been reading American Georgics: Writings on Farming, Culture, and the Land, a collection of excerpts in the American agrarian tradition edited by Edwin C. Hagenstein, Sara M. Gregg, and Brian Donahue, and published this week…
April 2011
Noble marriages have a certain appeal to even staunch republicans like ourselves. Could it be for something other than celebrity and The Dress?
The future is grim, my friends.
I suppose we all grow unduly annoyed at times with certain cultural foibles which are really quite trivial in comparison with the dire and momentous crises which are rapidly converging upon us. For myself, I freely confess to experiencing…
Devon, PA.… Mark T. Mitchell’s powerful essay on Jane Austen in the age of porn coincides with an interesting news item on Inside Higher Ed. A group called the Young Conservatives of Texas have helped craft legislation which would
If we are witnessing the passing of the gentlemen, there is much to lament. Perhaps it’s time for the gentleman to make a comeback.
Devon, PA.… I just received a link to a video that records the encounter of members of the TFP (The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property) with the insouciant and zealous undergraduates of Brown University.
St Louis, MO…
Was the Son of Man reneging on “judge not” when he said, “give not that which is holy unto the dogs; neither cast ye your pearls before swine”? Was he hijacking a woman’s fabled prerogative to change
No, not legs. They’re so 20th Century. The good people at Honda, responding to the crisis of people having to move their feet or stand on them, have developed a system that will enable us to sit more and exercise…
With the Barry Bonds’s trial ending with a slap on the wrist for the lesser charge against him and a mistrial on the greater charges, it is time to divulge now the true secret or secrets to Bonds’ success on…
Perhaps we should rape, pillage, and plunder while we’re at it.…
Last Saturday, I had the pleasure of addressing the ISI Conference at Taylor University, “Whose Capitalism? Which Free Market? Exploring the Moral Dimensions of the Market.” My message to the 200-plus participants was an attack on the philosophic bases of…
The South, repatriated ex-slave Ned Douglass lectured his Louisiana neighbors in Ernest J. Gaines’s novel The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, is “yours because your people’s bones lays in it; it’s yours because their sweat and their blood done drenched…
Our return to a distinctively modern form of paganism is nearly complete – a teacher at a Seattle school approved a “hunt” for round object containing sweets and surprises on the condition that they be called “Spring Spheres.” Apparently the…
Attorney John M. Berry Jr. in Kentucky is defending his right to criticize a decision made by the state’s Legislative Ethics Commission. Was his language at fault? Or is someone playing politics with bar association rules?
There’s no future in the past.
