Mama, they took my Kodachrome away.
Russell Arben Fox
The idea that the best way to reform government is to simply say “No!” is probably a bad idea…but for the TSA, I’ll make an exception.
There’s a deep and revealing purpose to figuring out if you’re an elitist or not, though I’m not sure this quiz actually gets at it.
Harry Reid’s election in Nevada is all about an argument over the direction of the American system. Would that we could argue about the nature of that system instead.
Free speech is a good thing. Respecting the value of the whole community is a better one.
For Wendell Berry, the environmentalist cause and the localist cause are (or should be) one and the same.
Bicycling is fun, and environmentally friendly, but for me at least, it is even more importantly about being as free as possible from the complicated dependencies which the automobile economy forces upon us all.
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.
