Language and Power
"We wade through a torrent of words and images every day, and yet we mostly lack a clear understanding of what language is and can be for the human..."
What Makes Places Great?: A Hypothetical Dialogue between G.K. Chesterton and...
MF: Mr. Chesterton, I know you have not received any training in economics at the University level. So, I will keep this simple. The...
Patriotic Subversives: Distributism as a Political Problem
We are presented with a complex and even contradictory task. In the name of subsidiarity, we must work to undermine liberal capitalism and create alternative spaces for production and exchange, art and leisure, community and independence. But in the name of solidarity, we must work to ameliorate the system and socialize such common goods as health care, unemployment insurance, education, etc.
Abortion: Realpolitik, Kulturkampf, and Evangelization
One side has dominated the story while the other has tried to dominate the politics. But separating culture and politics is a self-defeating strategy.
As North Korea Goes Nuclear Far East Ambassadors Must Speak Up
I lived much of my adult life under Terry Branstad’s multiple tenures as governor of Iowa, and I think he did a “pretty fair...
A Place Called Home – Even When You’re Young
Since posting "A Place Called Home" we have learned of the passing of Otto Warmbier. Just as home is the place where absence is...
Trump: America’s Father-in-Chief?
Donald Trump has been called many things in the press in the first six months of his presidency, yet the media have thus far...
Shared Governance and Mandatory Training: The New Incoherence
So long as gravity obtains, sawing off the branch you’re sitting on is never a good idea.
Politics as Religion: A Brief Assay Essayed after Midnight
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; / Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.