The Problem of Undertheorized Agrarianism in Most Actually Argued Localism
That's a terrible title for this post, I know. But hopefully it'll make sense, if you actually make it to the end.
First of...
Unsolicited Advice for the Republican Party
Hidden Springs Lane. It is clear that the GOP is in disarray. The recent CPAC conference only served to highlight that the Republicans are...
The Pythagorean Temptation
Berwyn, PA. In his Degrees of Knowledge, Jacques Maritain argues that one central fault of the modern mind has been its propensity to think of...
Mark Mitchell’s Politics of Gratitude (Theoretical and Otherwise)
To continue with the excellent discussion begun by R.J. Snell, Mark Mitchell's fine and thoughtful book is filled with important insights and challenges, which...
A Prophet of Goodness: Review of Mark T. Mitchell’s The Politics...
At my worst moments, I succumb to thinking that we have become utterly trite, absorbed by ephemera, thin of character, quick but scattered of...
Capital Offense
Washington, DC
I’ve been spending my semester in exile in our nation’s capital. My apartment is in Arlington, on a ridge overlooking the city. From...
From the Trinity Capital
Beyond the purple velvet drapes, the skeins of billowed gossamer, my hotel window looks down on the back gates of Trinity College. Up three floors and pierced by a late October sun, the room has been done up like a swinger’s pad, with leopard print and leather, with mirrors and conic shaded lights in orbit about the dark mass of the pillowed bed.
A Long Repentance: A Decade of Turning Away from (a Part...
Including “repentance” in this title might lead you to believe that it is a theological reflection of some kind. After all, repentance is a...
Ruthie Leming’s (and Rod Dreher’s) Little Way
Rod Dreher's 2006 manifesto, Crunchy Cons, was an inspiration (and provocation) to many, on both the left and the right. It wasn't that the...
U.S. ‘Intervention’ in Syria Unlawful
Proponents of Syria “intervention” did not seem to notice any irony as Secretary of State John Kerry, on the one hand, chastened Iraq for...