Caleb Stegall

Caleb Stegall
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Caleb Stegall lives in Jefferson County, Kansas.

Recent Essays

Commencement Address

Take heart though, for most of your triumphs, large and small, lie in front of you as well. Which is just to say that you stand at a grand beginning, the cusp of possibility.

Blog Flu

JEFFERSON COUNTY, KANSAS.* Recently on this virtual stoop, questions have arisen about the "tone" of discussion generally, and particularly in the comment section (I refuse...

The Sacrament of Death

James has penned an eloquent essay on his son this morning.  I am moved again to remind us all of a central truth.  And...

Practicing the Discipline of Place

My "Place" (Photo by AMS) JEFFERSON COUNTY, KANSAS.  If you think I'm reprinting yet another old essay because I'm too lazy or beset to keep...

Larison on Decentralism

A thoughtful examination of the future of conservative decentralism from Dan Larison (and his commentors) which relates pretty closely to several of the discussion threads...

Farm Stories: The Flag of Rough Branch

Drilling with the Pitchfork (photo by AMS) JEFFERSON COUNTY, KANSAS.  The call came from the neighbor yesterday at about four in the afternoon.  Your cows...

A Call to Arms

JEFFERSON COUNTY, KANSAS.  The review below was first published in the Intercollegiate Review in the fall of 2006.  Look Homeward, America was my first...

On Passing Water and other Spiritual Considerations

The Bar Jester is nearly as funny as Jeremy's limp cigar and Carrie Nation look of shocked indignation at the beverage he has just been...

Price, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

JEFFERSON COUNTY, KANSAS.*  In 1947, two titans of 20th-century economic theory, Ludwig von Mises and Wilhelm Röpke, met in Röpke's home of Geneva, Switzerland. During...

Life Amid the Suicide Machines

JEFFERSON COUNTY, KANSAS.  In small town America, business owners get to sponsor everything from the high school wrestling team to the "pride committee" chili...

I Did Taste!

Under consideration: Michael Pollan, The Omnivor's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Penguin (2006), 464 pages; and In Defense of Food: An Eater's...

The Right to Bear an Extraordinary Knowledge Base

Now that I am a tiny cog in the great machinary of state, I get all kinds of insider mailings.  This in today, from...