Print Culture and the Fate of the Literary Quarterly
The general continued to pay for the upkeep of the LSU tiger in an airconditioned cage. The amount of money involved was almost precisely the same as the subsidy for the Southern, then the best quarterly in the country by a large margin.
Pomo Urbanism?
Philip Bess argues that traditional forms of building are particularly suited to contemporary life.
Books and the Hungry Soul
Beautifully and substantially-made books suggest something that deserve to be pored over at length, just as one lingers with friends after a wonderful meal.
Radical Homemakers
Over the weekend I picked up a book with a promising title: "Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture." It helps chart a path to a promising coalition between new feminists and traditionalists.
Doing God’s Work at Goldman’s
Regulation, as we all know, was merely a demonic attempt by closet communists to deprive us of our liberties. And the markets, being made of of sophisticated buyers and sellers was self-regulating, so the government could just bug-out. This was an article of religious faith.
The “New Normal:” A Communitarian Moment?
It’s been almost exactly a year since the “Miracle at Polihale” occurred, and the answer to the “aloha question” is now clear: we are entering a “new normal.”
Preserving Local Memory
My grandma didn’t put up a Christmas tree. She didn’t bake pies. And she didn’t make fudge. Her kitchen was silent. I believe it was her way of mourning, not just the loss of her husband to the grave, but the loss of her children to schedules that kept them so busy they had no time for visiting and storytelling.
Incoherence
We are trapped in the deepest imaginable form of incoherence: we call for more control over the consequences of mastery, yet vaguely recognize that this very response is the source of our deepest troubles.
The Day (Ok, Two Days) When American Federalism Died
You never thought it was all the fault of the railroads, did you? Neither did I.