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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.
Evidence Gone Missing
Who is following in Susan B. Anthony's footsteps: Connie Schultz or Sarah Palin? Is abortion an empowering right necessary for true equality, or an inhumane tragedy linked to lack of…
A Tenancy of Will
Your body’s yours, just as this poem is mine: to make, destroy—a tenancy of will, for every citizen and concubine.
Groovin’ with Arthur Schlesinger
The great libertarian journalist Jesse Walker calls this Cold War liberal folkery (http://reason.com/blog/2010/05/27/you-hit-me-baby-like-an-atomic) "the most earnest song ever written." Hilariously bad. Enjoy!
DON’T SHOOT THAT MOCKINGBIRD!
Besides, the harshest criticisms of any place come from those who truly love and belong to it.
Ingratitude and the Death of Freedom
The hubris of ingratitude is a caustic acid that reduces all in its wake to the fetid condition of servitude, for a spoiled child needs nothing so much as a…
Subsidizing Profligacy
Legendary investor Seth Klaman on how the government has taught everyone a bad lesson.
Wrong Lesson, Senator
Soon-to-be-former United States Senator from Utah, Bob Bennett, gives some advice to the Tea Party activists who helped unseat him at Utah GOP convention: don't be like Jimmy Carter, be…
John William Corrington: A Literary Conservative
It seemed a good time to get out and leave the classroom to idiots who couldn’t learn and didn’t know better, and imbeciles who couldn’t teach and should have known…
Membership
We are here, in part, because choices made in big places have worked against rural places and rural people.
The Connection Between Food and Fairies
It turns out locally-produced food is not only good for the body, but the spirit - especially the human capacity to intuit the sanctity of the world.
Can Local and Organic Feed the World?
Is organic food merely a luxury item for the self-satisfied and affluent west?
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 am--I couldn't resist writing a review-essay…
Bar Jester Chronicles 12(A): “The Way to Bliss” (A Work of Fiction–Sort of)
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…
“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…
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 a contumacious patriot of…
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…
Red Tories
In the American context, one could very easily call Red Tories Jeffersonians, and this is where we see the predicament for Red Toryism in the United States.
Dan Mielke for Congress
There's an honest-to-god crunchy-con candidate in the northern Wisconsin woods.
