Articles Archive

Yesterday's ruling in the Arizona immigration law matter by Federal District Judge Susan Bolton is reverberating around the internet today.  Most of the heat is generated by the substantive policy…

Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Birthmark" provides a springboard for reflecting on the problems of scientism, especially the temptation to self-deification and, what Eric Voegelin terms, modern Gnosticism.

In which Bill Kauffman bids a hopeful aloha to the American Imperium.

Or, "Can you hear me in the back? Why don't we all move in a little closer..." My latest column in the absolutely essential American Conservative: http://www.amconmag.com/blog/the-loneliness-of-the-long-dissonant-reader/.

If your doctor had this same track record of diagnosing and treating disease, you’d be dead by now.

Could it be that there is a growing awareness that work--labor that actually results in something of value--and honesty are virtues worth preserving?

Look around and you’ll see that the seeds planted by the New Left have not all fallen on hard ground. I think maybe they’re ready to flower.

One of the key flashpoints over the identity of the Church has been the notion of inclusivity. When my church-related school redid its mission statement a couple of years ago,…

Might Steinbrenner be to professional baseball what an agribusiness is to farming?

Big Questions Online makes its appearance.

Today most symbols are gone, and gone with them is the sense of community cohesiveness that they used to communicate.

Though he had passionately opposed Hitler from the very beginning and had striven to protect the helpless from the SS, neither Americans nor English shed many tears for Moltke when…

If all groups were forced to comply with the anti-discrimination policies of the federal government, conceivably churches could not exclude unbelievers, wine clubs would have to be open to tee-totalers,…

Our conception of nature is too thin, too reliant upon the conceptions of the ancient Stoics, and so requires the more robust visions of Aristotle and Aquinas if moral debate…

Due to the vagaries of the weather and the incompetence and indifference of Delta Airlines, I found myself homeless in New York City for 24 hours. Although the airline caused…

The precincts of higher education have become so well known for their enormities and absurdities in the pursuit of political correctness that one may almost breeze past the latest episode…

In architecture I am a reactionary.

A riff on Thomas Frank’s thesis in "What’s the Matter With Kansas?," asking why wealthy voters in Blue States like Connecticut have been apparently voting against their economic interests by…

Bryan Caplan ignores the role religious belief plays in fertility rates.

This leak at the bottom of the sea is a mirror held up to our uncomprehending selves.

Are suburbs random or a product of design?

I am going to try something largely inadvisable and possibly impossible, which is to explain the Court’s speech related First Amendment jurisprudence in accessible layman’s terms.

For Chesterton the birds of nature were always singing about the rightness of things and so softly correcting modern man’s unnatural despair of the created order and his egregious confidence…

A reader asks: anyone interested in joining the Ciceronian Society, a new APSA-affiliated group?