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Everything I Ever Learned About Civility I Learned in a Small...

For instruction in civilization, nothing beats a small town.

Our Special Today is Spleen

Ah, you know what? Screw it. Give me the hairshirts wherever they are.

A Season of Gluttony

Is the meaning of a feast forfeited when the fast is no longer observed?

Self-Esteem v. Standards

The fundamental reason why American children are not educated properly is simply because the American people do not want their children to be educated properly.

I’ll Trade You 750 Hubert Humphreys for One Henrik Shipstead

My latest column from the American Conservative: http://www.amconmag.com/blog/slogans-heroes.

Constitution Day

A reflection on Constitution as regime, by the late Wilson Carey McWilliams

Gunning for No. 12

Is being Number One all it's cracked up to be?

Norman Maclean and the Question of Craft

"Fear and pity are made out of grammar,” he writes, and in this most particular grammatical unit he finds the fabric of tragedy itself.

Saul Sung True

From The American Conservative, Reason's Jesse Walker on Nicholas von Hoffman's Saul Alinsky.

Bicycling and the Simple (Socialist?) Life

Bicycling is fun, and environmentally friendly, but for me at least, it is even more importantly about being as free as possible from the complicated dependencies which the automobile economy forces upon us all.