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Gridlock and the Common Good
Events may soon conspire to force a conversation about the common good and the limits of power. Until that happens, gridlock may be the best option.
The Social Network Fantasy
In today’s Los Angeles Times, Neil Gabler has an insightful piece on the way in which the “gang of friends” has become the dominant social group on American television.
My Kind of General
The great '60s-'70s R&B singer General Johnson has died. The pacific General wrote the antiwar and pro-home anthem "Bring the Boys Home"
Hadley Arkes on Free Speech
Writing at Public Discourse (of which I am the managing editor), Hadley Arkes criticizes conservatives and liberals and defends the notion that communities can define standards of speech. Balancing individual…
The Jurisdiction of Science
They have no objections to non-scientists writing on evolutionary topics, so long as they do so in the proper spirit of submissiveness and adulation.
Why I Hope Westboro Baptist Church, the ACLU, and Dahlia Lithwick Get Their Butts Kicked By the Supreme Court
Free speech is a good thing. Respecting the value of the whole community is a better one.
Not a “Modern Family” At All
Claremont, CA. ABC’s hit series “Modern Family” has returned to the air for its second season. It’s the “modern” elements of the “Modern Family” that you’re supposed to notice right…
Hearing Wendell Berry
For Wendell Berry, the environmentalist cause and the localist cause are (or should be) one and the same.
Everything I Ever Learned About Civility I Learned in a Small Town
For instruction in civilization, nothing beats a small town.
Self-Esteem v. Standards
The fundamental reason why American children are not educated properly is simply because the American people do not want their children to be educated properly.
I’ll Trade You 750 Hubert Humphreys for One Henrik Shipstead
My latest column from the American Conservative: http://www.amconmag.com/blog/slogans-heroes.
Norman Maclean and the Question of Craft
"Fear and pity are made out of grammar,” he writes, and in this most particular grammatical unit he finds the fabric of tragedy itself.
Saul Sung True
From The American Conservative, Reason's Jesse Walker on Nicholas von Hoffman's Saul Alinsky.