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.
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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…
A new book provides profiles of seminal conservative thinkers. But Lord, please, please don’t read them through the outdated narrative of traditional cons, neocons, and laissez-faire cons.
Human nature, innate human longings, human biology, and human history are all on your side.
Gossip, under the right circumstances, acts as a virtue which demonstrates concern and thickens social ties.
Micro-breweries as model of government. Decentralized, local, small-scale, and kick-ass.
In a wonderful little essay on Calvin Coolidge (Calvin Coolidge: Puritanism de Luxe) written in 1926, Walter Lippmann described the president as having mastered the “technique of anti-propaganda” by sapping public interest in government, by deflating enthusiasm for programs, projects,…
There’s an honest-to-god crunchy-con candidate in the northern Wisconsin woods.
Hillsdale,MI. …David the King ordered the beautiful Bathsheba to come to him because he could. He also could have her husband killed, and sent the letter that condemned Uriah the Hittite to death in Uriah’s own hand, because David knew
Claremont, CA…. Men of Western civilization, take note: David Brooks thinks that you – and he – are done for.
In a recent exchange with Gail Collins, published on The New York Times “Opinionator Blog,” Brooks makes an argument
Claremont, CA…. In the current conversation on health care, we often hear that the crises of costs and coverage are problems that come with an aging population. OK. Fine.
What’s not fine is the assumption that because an aging
This week I received a directive (the precise source of the directive is not clear nor is the intent) to demonstrate that in my classes I teach my students to become “citizens of the world.” I will spare you other…
One of America’s more interesting and less predictable feminist public intellectual voices, Arlie Hochschild, has a few things to say about the general topic of family life and child care in a consumer capitalist world (hat tip: Laura McKenna):
Over…
Holland, MI…. I confess: I hate farms. I hate everything about them. I hate the malodorous smells that take days to wash off. I hate the all-pervasive dirt which invades the home and clings to the children. I hate
