From the Porch:

Derbyshire in the latest TAC:
[H]ere are the Tea Partiers vowing to “take back America.” Is there any real prospect of their doing so? If the “time left for us to do so” was short in 1998, how much shorter…

The concluding installment of “Art and Beauty against the Politicized Aesthetic” has appeared on First Principles, a series of essays begun in hopes of analyzing and reforming American conservatism as it exists in our day.

Recently I was interviewed by the organizers of the website “The Conservatory.” Here is an excerpt of the interview, as well as a link to the whole discussion.

I shall be giving a lecture on Eliot and Stoicism next week; FPR readers are invited.

Louis Auchincloss died January 26, 2010, aged 92. Most of the obits talk about his prolific writing career while working as a serious attorney until age 87. They also emphasize his concern for “eastern elites” and forgotten WASP culture. Most…