The author of The Moviegoer would make a fascinating subject for a movie, or at least a documentary.
So reasoned filmmaker Win Riley. His Walker Percy: A Documentary Film, which I have had the privilege to preview, is excellent. It’s…
Jeremy Beer
The federal courts’ extraordinarily broad interpretation of the Constitution’s interstate commerce clause has long posed a problem for localists — which is to say, for community self-governance. That has never been more true than in the past two decades, when…
It was a dark and stormy night when I first met Peter Stanlis. The year was 2000. I had recently become senior editor at ISI Books, and he had just arrived for our first-ever author event. I was glad to…
Phoenix, AZ.…
In the days leading up to this year’s Major League Baseball All-Star Game, which will be held in Phoenix on July 12, there is sure to be a renewed a focus on Arizona’s SB 1070, which reached its
Let the memories come, as I know they will, and be done with it.
Spring training is over, and I find myself at loose ends. Since moving to Phoenix a few years back, this has become the saddest time of the year for me. Over the last five weeks I’ve been going to as…
A new book provides profiles of seminal conservative thinkers. But Lord, please, please don’t read them through the outdated narrative of traditional cons, neocons, and laissez-faire cons.
Keeping alive a print vehicle for independent, thoughtful conservatism depends on us.
In which Bill Kauffman bids a hopeful aloha to the American Imperium.
A reader asks: anyone interested in joining the Ciceronian Society, a new APSA-affiliated group?
I hope that a Porcher will react at length to today’s dispiriting, but not too surprising, Supreme Court ruling in CLS v. Martinez, which upheld a public institution’s — the University of California’s, in this case — right to exclude…
Should you have, for some reason, an interest in goings-on in the world of philanthropy and civil society, I invite you to lumber on on over to Philanthropy Daily.
There’s an honest-to-god crunchy-con candidate in the northern Wisconsin woods.
The most recent issue of The American Conservative will be of interest to folks on the Porch.
