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The Next Time You’re in New Hampshire

Now that GM stands for “Government Motors” who can love a Chevy? In many ways, seat belt laws paved the way for this transformation. Government straps me in, government keeps…

The Evangelization of Business

For our readers in the Oakland area, who have nothing in particular to do next Saturday, I will be speaking at the Manhattan Forum at St. Margaret Mary Church, 1219…

10*

Now that the admission of blogger taint is clearly in the open, one may as well produce one's own list of most influential books.
April 2, 2010

Does Kauffman count as good Good Friday reading?

Fr. Michael Orsi reviews Kauffman's Luther Martin, and finds wisdom therein.
Jeremy Beer
April 2, 2010

Need an Ark? Try your Hand

It is no wonder that we fallen mortals would drive a heavy spike through the opened hands of Christ, bloodily impaling him atop the rocky pate of Golgotha.
April 2, 2010

Abortion and Women’s Health

Recent addresses by erstwhile abortion advocates demonstrates some basic incoherencies.
Jeff Polet
April 2, 2010

Out of the Fissure, Real Energy: A Response to God’s Economy

Perhaps out of these fissures and the current populist turmoil, someone might be able to craft a new, more coherent, and more promising Christian and Democratic coalition.
April 2, 2010

Hello Again From an April Fool

I love to go in the capricious days of April and hunt violets.
April 1, 2010

A Tentative Thesis

This thesis has the benefit of describing a coherent and understandable affinity between and among my favorite American thinkers, writers, and statesmen.
April 1, 2010

The Culture of Atomic Eros and the Hatred of the Church

It is time to consider what the latest uproar against Pope Benedict XVI and the Catholic Church tells us about the state of our society. It is an ugly truth:…

Blogger Self Loathing

Can I gloat?
March 31, 2010

Science and the Decline of the Liberal Arts

The hidden connection between our two academic orthodoxies - post-modernism and scientific research.
Patrick Deneen
March 31, 2010

Christian Democratic Communities and Teleological States: A Response to God’s Economy

If your religion--or at least your concept of the moral norms of the civil order--lacks a notion of grace, it therefore also lacks a notion of gifts; all it can…
March 31, 2010

My First Book Published At Last

"Four Verse Letters" has just appeared from the Franciscan University at Steubenville Press.

An Arch Needs Many Stones: A Response to “God’s Economy”

But how can such plural sovereignty be realised under the circumstances of this century? Who will guard the guardians, so to speak? How will the stones of the arch fit…
March 30, 2010

George A. Panichas, RIP

George A. Panichas, literary critic and longtime editor of Modern Age, has died at the age of 79.
Jeremy Beer
March 29, 2010

Where Have all the Slaughterhouses Gone?

USDA regulations strangle the local meat market.
Mark T. Mitchell
March 29, 2010

God’s Economy

Bush's strong effort to restore the freedom of the church took the political side of this freedom for the whole meaning of the tradition. At the same time, his supply-side…

No National ID Tags for Buttercup–Yet

Since the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) has been discussed on this site by Jerry Salyer and Susan McWilliams, I want to mention that last month the program (after a $120+…
Katherine Dalton
March 26, 2010

Phillip Blond at Villanova

Video of Blond's March 22nd talk at Villanova is now available online.

The Closing of the Conservative Mind?

No fan of Frum am I, but this is disturbing. The AEI has fired him for deviations from the Party Line.

David Rieff on FPR–and others

According to David Rieff, FPR occupies an honorable space on the right side of the American commentariat spectrum, in that many of our writers (1) are willing to admit the…
Jeremy Beer
March 25, 2010

New Nullifiers?

Our health care "debate."
Patrick Deneen
March 25, 2010

Educating Tools

The future of education.
Patrick Deneen
March 25, 2010