CALL FOR PAPERS: CICERONIAN SOCIETY
2012 ANNUAL MEETING AT UVA…
The Ciceronian Society will be holding its annual meeting at the University of Virginia, March 29-31, 2012. This will be an academic conference in which panelists can present on a
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The Right may be beyond redemption, but it isn’t above parody.
Porch readers will be interested in the new online symposium on distributism that is now on ANAMNESIS, A Journal for the Study of Tradition, Place, and ‘Things Divine.’ This includes essays by John Medaille, Thomas Storck, and Thomas Woods.…
[Cross-posted to In Medias Res]
As Christmas and the end of 2011 approaches, I find myself thinking gratefully about what Leroy Hershberger has enabled my students and me to learn this year, and what that learning has meant to me.…
Walter Russell Mead takes on the Baby Boomers.
[Cross-posted to In Medias Res]
Wichita, KS…
I don’t know how many people in the conservative public sphere read George F. Will closely any longer–maybe lots of them do, but as I don’t particularly identify myself with that sphere, I
Maybe you are the kind of donor who supports nonprofits in your community. Like many Americans, you give or tithe through your church or temple. You support local human-service organizations that provide direct aid to the needy, infirm, and down-and-out.…
You won’t want to miss this. Register here.
Session 1: Mobility and the Crisis of Community
Patrick Deneen: The Liberal Self and Mobility
Allan Carlson: Why the Modern Family Keeps Moving
Christine Rosen: Technology and Mobility
Session 2: Fostering Vital …
Robert T. Miller and I discuss two opposed views of Catholic Social Teaching as it relates to economics in this month’s issue of Dappled Things. Robert defends that “… for people like us in a society like ours, capitalism is…
Enterprising students at the University of Chicago have managed to combine two of the central interests of the contemporary student: casual sex and facebook. They’ve launched a new UChicago Hookups website for those who are too busy to be bothered…
BYU’s suspension of forward Brandon Davies for having sex with his girlfriend has divided the sports blogosphere between those who applaud the University for upholding its honor code and those who express incredulity that anyone could get kicked off the…
Richard Wakefield’s book of poems takes its place as one more important and hard-won advance in the restoration of good poetry to our culture.
Review of MacIntyre’s book.
How to feel good about yourself on $50,000 a day.
Sometimes when you sit in the pew you get the feeling that the preacher is talking to you. Of course, this impression is magnified when the preacher loudly calls your name from the pulpit; you cannot help but feel self-conscious…
