Month: August 2010

  • August 22, 2010
    Raise a glass of dandelion wine to the dreamy kid from Waukegan, Illinois, who today becomes a nonagenarian. Herewith my…
  • August 22, 2010
    Can the blight of modern reductive thinking and living be overcome by humanistic education? Newman thought so; so does Villanova.
  • August 19, 2010
    But not to be missed in this story is the recognition that no matter how much the government wants to…
  • August 18, 2010
    Was Nisbet wrong about the quest for community?
  • August 17, 2010
    It is characteristic of the tyrant, however, that he thinks he can get away with lies in the sense that…
  • August 16, 2010
    Angelo Codevilla gives us an excellent diagnosis of the problem. The cure is not explained.
  • August 15, 2010
    Do you ever long for the place of your childhood? Does it still exist?
  • August 15, 2010
    "Here's a couple of things America got right - cars and freedom."
  • August 12, 2010
    Gossip, under the right circumstances, acts as a virtue which demonstrates concern and thickens social ties.
  • August 11, 2010
    Toward a Truly Free Market: A Distributist Perspective on the Role of Government, Taxes, Health Care, Deficits, and More
  • August 11, 2010
    My review of Howard Mansfield's Turn & Jump is in today's Wall Street Journal.
  • Urakami Cathedral

    August 9, 2010
    Civilization rests upon the sacred. Thus it is as grimly appropriate that the first atom bomb test was sacrilegiously codenamed…