More Red Tory
The Cato Institute sponsors a symposium on Philip Blond, with a lead essay by yours truly.
Nicholas Carr’s Shallows, and the Death of the Book
I just completed Nicholas Carr's excellent book, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, and--because that's the sort of person I...
Bar Jester Chronicles 12(A): “The Way to Bliss” (A Work...
Nor was it his great and almost constant tumescence, which his grey polyester pants could never quite sufficiently hide.
A Note on Right, Left, and Lasch at the Present Time
If Lasch couldn't express a way for leftists and localists to speak the same language, perhaps no one can.
Few v. Many: The Topsy-Turvy World of Judicial Demographics
There are many reasons to wonder about the wisdom of confirming Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court. What strikes me most about her nomination is the typically phony way Washington and the mainstream media are packaging the event.
“Never Let a Good Crisis Go To Waste”
Is there really any limit to political consolidation, when the very effects of that consolidation ensure the creation of even larger economic, military, and other crises that require more expansive consolidation?
Idaho May…
"Would that thou couldst last for aye,
Merry, ever merry May"
--William D. Gallagher
Well, it can't. But herewith my May column from The American Conservative on...
Lessons from the Jersey Shore
Jersey Shore teaches us something about the tragic dimensions of the culture in which we live, and in which we raise young people.
Personality, Conversion, and Being: On John Paul II’s “Fides et Ratio”
The Reader Objects!: If God is Personal and Loving above all, if the Christian believes reason is fundamentally preceded by what is revealed in Faith, then what grounds has the Christian for speaking to the non-Christian? What hope for meaningful dialogue have we if Caritas precedes and envelops all?