The Answer, My Friend
From The American Conservative, my thoughts on FPR contributor Jeff Taylor's new book on Bob Dylan.
The Holy Earth and Liberty Hyde Bailey’s Front Porch Cred
He wrote sixty-five books and had a hand in another hundred and thirty-five.
Whatever Happened to Communitarianism?
Twenty years ago, the concept and label "communitarianism" was riding high, or at least as high as any broadly applicable yet intellectually coherent ideological...
From the Distant Liberal Consensus, a Defiant Conservative Yelp
As I write this review, I keep hearing about Jeb Bush, campaigning for president, talking about how the invasion of Iraq and the removal...
Harriet Tubman, in a Child’s Eye
BURNED-OVER DISTRICT, NY - I’m overjoyed that the phiz of that bastard Alexander Hamilton, the father of corporate capitalism, will be removed from the...
Tom Fleming Retires
Rockford, Illinois. After thirty-one years at Chronicles Magazine—thirty of them as editor—classicist, poet and polemicist Tom Fleming has retired.
During his tenure at this small...
Hanging Out with, and Learning from, Some Thoroughly Material Benedictines
A few weeks ago I was able to, once again, do something that I enjoy doing immensely--take a group of students out on a...
Thoreau’s Walden: Embracing a Restorative Experience of Nature
Windswept and partially covered in snow, winter debris still clinging to its banks, Walden Pond offered no glamorous window into the preeminent beauty of...
Booth Tarkington after the Great War, ‘That Disquieted and Questioning Time’
In this excerpt from America Moved: Booth Tarkington’s Memoirs of Time and Place, 1869–1928, Tarkington reflects on the changes he observed in America following...