What He Saw in America: G.K. Chesterton’s View of the United...
Front Royal, VA. “Who is the American, this new man?” Crevecoeur famously asked. Since the discovery and settlement of the continent across the Atlantic,...
The Irony of a Wendell Berry NFT
While some are admittedly pleasing, NFTs will not be the great decentralizing force many of us long for. Instead, their rapid profusion creates speculative bubbles and too often rewards unvirtuous swindlers while harming the environment.
Moon Missions and the Southern Tradition
"…this city of Houston, this State of Texas, this country of the United States was not built by those who waited and rested and...
What is Liberty Anyway?
Patrick Deneen’s new book, Why Liberalism Failed, is a manifesto in defense of place, limits, and liberty. And the amount of attention it’s received...
Learning from The Left Behind
Robert Wuthnow's new book, The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America, is the best book I've read on the rural-urban divide in...
Dos Passos: The Modernist Path That Wasn’t
We have lost something of great value in forgetting the work of John Dos Passos. He was a man who knew who deserved his sympathy, and his work followed his instincts. Dos Passos didn’t follow a line; he followed reality.
The Super Bowl Spectacle Sends Mixed Messages about Women
What was on display in the halftime show was not a celebration of sexuality or empowerment for women. It was an elevation of instinct.
Rethinking the Good City: Vallejo’s Bold Vision
What Americans Want in Cities
What makes a good city? I’ve been thinking a lot about this. What makes for a city people are happy...
A Digital Relation to the Universe
Matt's essay concludes our discussion of "Localist Social Media." You can view all the essays in this symposium here.
When I first submitted my attempt...
Is Regime Change too Radical? Or too Conservative?
What is more radical, and more conservative, than to cast the ring into the fire? That would be a real “regime change,” would it not?