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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."

We have, until this day, indulged in our individualistic reveries, imagining that we are always free to “light out for the Territory” and leave the ills of communal life behind…

ISI sponsors an on-line discussion on the limits of liberty.

In the ancient world, Christianity put an end to cremation, and for a century it was kept in check by Christian tradition.

While Peters is peddling his technophiliac vision below, I commend this ancient Catalonian tradition for your creche (and your garden), "the Caganer."

Academic leftists and conservative critics of academe are united in a fundamental proposition, says Stanley Fish. True enough, say I: education is endless and the world is a nauseating abyss.

A splendid gift idea, especially for yourself.

But then Dylan is 69, and old enough to remember when the people of his place looked askance at empire. There were giants in the earth in those days.

From the mountaintop, the little people of this world appear very small indeed.