The Holy Earth and Liberty Hyde Bailey’s Front Porch Cred
He wrote sixty-five books and had a hand in another hundred and thirty-five.
Reasoning about Stories
Devon, PA. Here is something for you that no one will dispute: all complaints about modernity, including those that fit under the rubric of...
Breaking Through the Screen Door: The Jayhawks’ Hollywood Town Hall, Twenty-Five...
A couple of years ago my wife had a minor accident, the kind that results in an older car being mysteriously “totaled.” Before the...
Remembering Peter Stanlis
It was a dark and stormy night when I first met Peter Stanlis. The year was 2000. I had recently become senior editor at...
Dy-No-Mite!
Minnesota's second literary Nobelist is the subject of The Political World of Bob Dylan: Freedom and Justice, Power and Sin, a perceptive book by...
Still’s “River of Earth”
Given domination of the Commonwealth’s institutions by progressivist ideology, it’s unsurprising how few Kentucky students and teachers are familiar with poet-novelist James Still and...
Another Night Like All The Rest
Men are fallen creatures who think they’re perfectible when in fact they’re hardly improvable.
The Song of Taillefer
Somerset, NJ. Legend has it that on the field of Hastings, as the forces of the Conqueror ascended a hill to engage the exhausted...
The Passing of Two Great Intellectual Historians
News of the passing of Gene Genovese and Henry May took the wind out of these aging sails. In addition to reading these historians...
Against Pessimism
Alexandria, VA My last post has led some to conclude that I am a pessimist. Even Ross Douthat, among the most perceptive commentators...