Articles Archive

A revised foreign policy true to the principles of the Porch should turn the present one upside down.

We are paying for the sexual revolution in more ways than one.

Now and only now, when people are being eaten in famine-stricken areas, and hundreds, if not thousands, of corpses lie on the roads, we can (and therefore must) pursue the…

Recently I was asked to participate in a symposium on Michael Berube's "The Left At War" for the journal "Politics and Culture."  I took the author to be scolding those…

The last pro-life Democrat on a national ticket has died. R. Sargent Shriver, 1972 running mate of the best Democratic nominee since Al Smith, was an admirer of Catholic Worker…

Fortunately America still gives birth to her Framers and they come with every generation.

How to feel good about yourself on $50,000 a day.

Remembering Ike's "Farewell Address," fifty years later.

They never quite got it when they asked me if I was “going home for Christmas” and I replied, “I live at home.”

"Intellectual" and "Disinterested," as we use them, are new words. I "prefer" old words: Scholar, Monk, Contemplative, Lover of Wisdom.

If evangelicals are going to have trouble drawing the line in worship against Christian rock, will they really be reliable when it comes to evaluating the best texts and artistic…

“You go two blocks one way, you're in public housing. You go two blocks the other way, you're at Banana Republic."

I am proud to say I made the list.

An argument about tradition commences.

Peace on Earth is still our prayer.

I still do not understand why, in a prison and particularly in a jungle prison, where needs multiply like rats, why the need for lipstick should vault to the top…

Two columns - by Brooks and Cohen - provoke reflection upon the nature of our civic crisis.

The recent controversy over the removal of a video from the Smithsonian offers a good occasion to reflect on the relationship between the artist and the polity.

It was the kind of responsibility that forces a kid to grow up.

You may think every five- to eight-year-old you know wanted an iPod this year. Not these kids.

Caleb Stegall is set to become general councel for Governor Brownback when he takes office on January 10. Here is the announcement. No doubt his new responsibilities will leave less time…

Mama, they took my Kodachrome away.

Here is your opportunity to name the worst-ever occupant of the White House.

TAC reconsiders Eisenhower's Farewell Address, delivered fifty years ago next month. Kauffman and yours truly participate in a fine symposium reflecting on the dangers of the "military-industrial complex."