Whether left or right, the ethical education of those we send to fight should concern us all.

Big Questions Online makes its appearance.

A scholar suggests that Phillip Blond’s Red Toryism is just another word for conventional conservatism. He may be right about Blond, but he’s definitely not about the idea.

Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn? Harry Potter and Ron Weasley? Anne Shirley and Diana Barry? Disruptive elements, all of them.

You never thought it was all the fault of the railroads, did you? Neither did I.

Soon-to-be-former United States Senator from Utah, Bob Bennett, gives some advice to the Tea Party activists who helped unseat him at Utah GOP convention: don’t be like Jimmy Carter, be like Ronald Reagan. I think he has it exactly backwards:…

I just completed Nicholas Carr’s excellent book, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, and–because that’s the sort of person I am–I couldn’t resist writing a review-essay on the book. There is, to be sure, a kind…

If Lasch couldn’t express a way for leftists and localists to speak the same language, perhaps no one can.

The less-than-majority showing by the Conservatives make it likely that any power they do achieve will come through an alliance with the least Red Tory party of them all.

Whatever the results of the British election, the Red Tory ideal remains promising…and yet, absent a robust civic religion, also probably wanting.

Social democratic states can demonstrate frugality and responsibility, too.

If there truly is a difference between how red states and blue states see the family, maybe it starts with how the economy and technology have changed how kids grow up.

Teaching Wendell Berry to students today isn’t a thankless task, but the victories are small and far between (which, one might say, is all the best victories always are).

Rod Dreher likes the iPad. What does that say about progress?

Ross Douthat reflects on the way in which globalization, the mass media, and participatory democracy make local control so difficult to maintain.

If your religion–or at least your concept of the moral norms of the civil order–lacks a notion of grace, it therefore also lacks a notion of gifts; all it can say is that some people are lucky, not that some people are blessed.

Harvey Mansfield and William Galston disagree about liberty; from the perspective that insists place empowers liberty, Galston has it right.

I get somewhat frustrated, at times, with the language of compromise, because it seems to me that if you are, in fact, acknowledging a degree of compromise with modern life, well then, that must mean you’re….willing to work with modern life.