Everything I Ever Learned About Civility I Learned in a Small...
For instruction in civilization, nothing beats a small town.
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.
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.