Behind the Beautiful Forevers, and the Ground on Which Communities Are...
The final sentence in Behind the Beautiful Forevers--Katherine Boo's wonderfully written, devastatingly detailed narrative of several fascinating, despairing stories that took place over the...
Continuing to Argue Against Abortion
“Yet because the decision will not allow the question to remain silent, and yet sounds an ambiguous note as to how it would be...
Conservative Wisdom from an Original Radical
Last Friday, Tom Hayden, co-founder of the Students for a Democratic Society, principal author of 1962's Port Huron Statement (or, if you Big Lebowski...
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...
Lessons on Limits from the Cougar Prophet
If a spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down, I took my prescription of limits and localism with a spoon full of...
Life Under Compulsion
In 1940, when the Nazis attacked their supposed racial kinfolk in Norway and set up a puppet government under the odious Quisling, the novelist...
Twice Removed
Damn the lights,
unnatural, bright, coiled,
spewing white 15 watts.
Damn the halls,
with their smooth vinyl, soaked in bleach,
the stench of sterile rising...
“There Was Also Much Singing”: A Review of The Hound of...
In his estimable history of distributism and its major figures, Jobs of Our Own, Australian economist and former MP Race Matthews records an account...
A View from the Studebaker Servants’ Quarters
I’ve breathed its dust in, taken careful note how plastic urns break in the snow; how I can merely mock at stone’s sad history; pronounce its fate, perhaps, but just in quotes.
A Footloose Spring Day
On a gorgeous April Wednesday I am filling in as substitute homeschool teacher. We do arithmetic; we do a language lesson about adverbs and...