Michael Kinsley reviews a new collection of Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s writings and concludes that today’s politicians are boring boring boring.
Caleb Stegall
My good friend and sturdy Kansas patriot Tony Woodlief writes about the best State Fair around in today’s Wall Street Journal.
I will be in New York City on October 6-7. For details, see here. If anyone is in the area and wants to attend events or plan an FPR event of your own, let me know.…
The so-called “wise men” of Michael Gerson and David Brooks’s imagination don’t exist. And the same could be said of the super experts that supposedly run things in our financial regulatory bureaucracy, food safety and consumer protection bureaucracy, or any other middling…
This story (and the broader phenomena it represents which would include everything from the explosion of reality TV to Facebook) illustrates what appears to be fertile new ground for Girardian inquiry into the new forms of mimetic desire and scapegoating that…
Michael Gerson’s column this morning seems a likely candidate to spur some friendly discussion on the Porch.
Another Tea Party candidate appears set to make political waves by unseating an establishment figure by running a rag-tag minuteman-type campaign.
A report from the heartland.
Next time your kids ask you to tell them a scary story, show them this slide show. Only I imagine this one will be keeping the parents awake at night.…
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…
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…
I am going to try something largely inadvisable and possibly impossible, which is to explain the Court’s speech related First Amendment jurisprudence in accessible layman’s terms.
Over on the hip lefty Sojourner’s blog, Chris Rice douses the fires of American sin with the holy waters of sanctimony in an entry ominously and alliteratively titled: “The War, the Well, and the Wall.” In the process, he demonstrates that Krustianity is…
What a trifling thing it is to control man! How easily we believe in fairy tales when they come cloaked in the black box of authority and superior knowledge.
My appearance on local radio yesterday discussing politics and law, both practical and philosophical. Skip to the 55 minute mark.…
Dreher posts a wonderful reminiscence on his home, on place, and on the ravages of time.
