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The Tea Party and the TSA
The idea that the best way to reform government is to simply say "No!" is probably a bad idea...but for the TSA, I'll make an exception.
Scientia and Sapentia, or, What the Schoolmen Knew
Modern science has given us modern miracles, like iPhones and atom bombs and Chrysler cars, but has not given us the wisdom to use them.
Medaille and Manufacturing
The book does a great service in dismantling economic shibboleths about trade, money, labor, and markets, and then reconstructing them along different premises that conform with both human happiness and…
The American Conservative
Where else can one find such a wide ranging, wise, witty, and downright winsome collection of thinkers and writers in one tactile, fold-over-double, take-to-the-porcelain-throne, nap-with-on-the-couch, 100-percent-carpal-tunnel-free place?
Place
Will I die here? I don't know. I have tried living away from here and it does not work.
Commentary on John Medaille’s Toward a Truly Free Market
It should help open the ‘closed shop’ of economic theory to a potentially rich and fruitful debate.
Half a LaFollette’s Better than None
Jesse Walker of Reason is bummed that Russ Feingold lost: http://reason.com/blog/2010/11/03/a-farewell-to-feingold. So am I.
Flowers (Potatoes?) in November? The Southern Tier Efflorescence
The dank and drear of Election Day and its hangover were dispelled by the appearance in my mailbox of books from two most admirable friends. John Rezelman—poet, wit,…
Rising Scientism, Declining Supernaturalism, and the Loss of Taste and Morals in W.G. Simms’ “Grayling”
William Gilmore Simms’ claims about the decay of morals and the arts that results from the rise of scientism and decline of supernaturalism can be elaborated by reflecting on the…
The Infinitesimal Fraction, or, the Swindle of Consent
Where does that leave us? With the difficult job of recovering the sturdy Jeffersonian virtues of the freeman—virtues of thrift, being rooted in one’s place, hard work, pride of ownership,…
Rootedness & Rand Paul
What does it mean to be a Kentuckian, or a Kentucky senator? Does place have any place in a national election?
A Requirement for Respect
Our region became, unwittingly, the domestic front of what is now surely a global energy war.
Handing Higher Ed to the Cripples: On John Williams’s “Stoner”
If there’s one thing we have in higher education today it’s a superfluity of bluster.
Peace: A Word that Shanghais us on our Road to Emmaus
Peace is a Jinn. It is that thing we are always in search of, but never enough to forget our accumulated envious resentments of those who are not like us.
Gardnering at Night
Those so blessed by the Good Lord as to be within hailing (or driving) distance of Batavia, New York, might want to drop by the Pokadot diner tonight at 8…
As Goes Reid, So Goes America (Maybe, Unfortunately)
Harry Reid's election in Nevada is all about an argument over the direction of the American system. Would that we could argue about the nature of that system instead.
Facebook and Friendship
Does the risk-free security of a screen hamper the development of real friendships?
The Cost of Everything
Without proper accounting, there can be neither honest pricing nor clean water.