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Cameron’s “Big Society” and its Discontents
I can’t seem to get the Orwellian thought of a “National Department of Bigness” out of my head – where everything is kept small and local…except the Department.
Beating Back the Alien Dark
In 2007, we bought a house and moved to Greenville, North Carolina. Here, I recall the first rough day of home ownership, topped off by John Wayne and cold wine.
The Tragic Logic of Central Authority
Ross Douthat reflects on the way in which globalization, the mass media, and participatory democracy make local control so difficult to maintain.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Cotton’s Court
Ralph Nader recently spoke at a university in the Heart of Dixie. We tried to build some bridges.
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…
Does Kauffman count as good Good Friday reading?
Fr. Michael Orsi reviews Kauffman's Luther Martin, and finds wisdom therein.
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.
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.
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:…
Science and the Decline of the Liberal Arts
The hidden connection between our two academic orthodoxies - post-modernism and scientific research.
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…
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…
George A. Panichas, RIP
George A. Panichas, literary critic and longtime editor of Modern Age, has died at the age of 79.
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+…
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…
Hail to the Publican
A friend sent me the other day two issues of a little journal called The Publican of Philadelphia. Since I am forever worried that the Porch's ongoing what-to-do conversation gravitates…
An Apologia for Tiger Woods
The rise and fall of Tiger Woods leads to a brief meditation both on beauty and virtue.
