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What is American?
While there is much work to be done and there are no guarantees of success, we don’t have to look far for the foundations upon which to build. They are…
Ida’s Own Private Husband
My review of Leigh Eric Schmidt's Heaven's Bride appeared in this weekend's Wall Street Journal.
The Blind Senator from Minnesota
It was difficult to say whether they were on the far left or the far right or both simultaneously, but you were safe to identify them as radical, whichever political…
End of the Culture Wars?
Ross Douthat suggests that the culture wars have moved to a different battlefield. I dissent.
Monarchy and the American Constitution
The American Constitution, as it was originally written and understood, is the most monarchical-democratic document in the modern world.
On the Porch with Bye, Bye, Miss American Empire
I value a writer who makes me read with a dictionary. Godspeed the man with a memory.
Torn Screen Door
Listen to the fierce and mournful "Torn Screen Door" by the Scottish-Canadian singer/songwriter David Francey.
Homeschooling and Socialization
What is this thing we call “socialization” and why is there a perception that this is best achieved in the classroom and thwarted by homeschooling?
Monarchy and Regalism
A thing without proper limits becomes its own opposite, and benevolence quickly becomes a tyranny which threatens both civil and religious order.
A Gift from the Grievous Angel
Gram Parsons, Southern hippie aristocrat Byrd progenitor of “Cosmic American Music” who spent too much tyme eight miles high, expressed his Christian faith in a number of tunes, none lovelier…
American Graffiti
Where this latest tourist among the rustics goes wrong is in not crediting the stay-at-homes with the capacity to dream, and in not noticing that some of those who “got…
Why I am a Monarchist
herefore, it behooves me to cut directly to the chase, and state very clearly why I am a monarchist: “I am a monarchist because I am a democrat.”
Thanksgiving, All Too Un-Human
Thanksgiving, which may initially seem like a practice that is all too foreign to our second nature, can become an activity that realizes our more original human nature-i.e., the nature…
NPR Does Something Right
Diane Rehm has selected Wendell Berry’s novel Hannah Coulter as the “Reader Review” book for November. FPR's own Jason Peters will appear as the off-color commentator.
What is it Like to be a Man?
And nowhere, not in so much as a page of this literature, does one discover even the beginnings of an answer to the question, “what is it like to be…
Why I Shouldn’t Have To Pay Federal Tax On My IPA
If you want a reason to reach for a beer, read this piece, preferably at a bar featuring IPA’s during Happy Hour.
Kingsley Amis (!) On the Priesthood
Then it’s a bit up to you to be jolly crusty and jolly full of hell-fire and sin and damnation.
