A Tenancy of Will
Your body’s yours, just as this poem is mine: to make, destroy—a tenancy of will, for every citizen and concubine.
Groovin’ with Arthur Schlesinger
The great libertarian journalist Jesse Walker calls this Cold War liberal folkery (http://reason.com/blog/2010/05/27/you-hit-me-baby-like-an-atomic) "the most earnest song ever written." Hilariously bad. Enjoy!
DON’T SHOOT THAT MOCKINGBIRD!
Besides, the harshest criticisms of any place come from those who truly love and belong to it.
Ingratitude and the Death of Freedom
The hubris of ingratitude is a caustic acid that reduces all in its wake to the fetid condition of servitude, for a spoiled child needs nothing so much as a master.
Subsidizing Profligacy
Legendary investor Seth Klaman on how the government has taught everyone a bad lesson.
Wrong Lesson, Senator
Soon-to-be-former United States Senator from Utah, Bob Bennett, gives some advice to the Tea Party activists who helped unseat him at Utah GOP convention:...
John William Corrington: A Literary Conservative
It seemed a good time to get out and leave the classroom to idiots who couldn’t learn and didn’t know better, and imbeciles who couldn’t teach and should have known better.
Membership
We are here, in part, because choices made in big places have worked against rural places and rural people.
The Connection Between Food and Fairies
It turns out locally-produced food is not only good for the body, but the spirit - especially the human capacity to intuit the sanctity of the world.
Can Local and Organic Feed the World?
Is organic food merely a luxury item for the self-satisfied and affluent west?