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Leaf Subsides to Leaf
Dreher posts a wonderful reminiscence on his home, on place, and on the ravages of time.
Boxing (172 miles north of) Helena
My review of Jason Kelly's entertaining account of George Babbitt as boxing promoter, Shelby's Folly, is in today's Wall Street Journal.
The Financial Crisis and the Scientific Mindset
Paul J. Cella III argues that the financial crisis was the result of a modern mindset committed to rationalism and abstraction.
The Evangelization of Business
For our readers in the Oakland area, who have nothing in particular to do next Saturday, I will be speaking at the Manhattan Forum at St. Margaret Mary Church, 1219…
10*
Now that the admission of blogger taint is clearly in the open, one may as well produce one's own list of most influential books.
Abortion and Women’s Health
Recent addresses by erstwhile abortion advocates demonstrates some basic incoherencies.
A Tentative Thesis
This thesis has the benefit of describing a coherent and understandable affinity between and among my favorite American thinkers, writers, and statesmen.
My First Book Published At Last
"Four Verse Letters" has just appeared from the Franciscan University at Steubenville Press.
A Reader Responds – For and Against Blond/Brooks
Practical suggestions from a practical reader. Thoughts?
An Elegant Plan
Obama would like a health care plan that is academically approved, but not publicly. Any wonder it still hasn't passed?
Deneen Spring Tour Dates
With stops in Dallas and Philadelphia. The City of Brotherly Love should beware - I'll be there the same evening as Peters, who will be lecturing at Villanova. Riot police…
Ideal Curriculum
This term gets used too much. Whenever you are exiled to a curriculum committee run as fast as if you were asked to serve on a tax-cutting committee run by…
One Tea Party Too Late
Derbyshire in the latest TAC: [H]ere are the Tea Partiers vowing to “take back America.” Is there any real prospect of their doing so? If the “time left for us…
Distracted Achievement Gap
The problem is that public schools inherit children who are "overentertained and distracted."
The End of Beauty — And We’re Not Talking Teleologically Here!
The concluding installment of "Art and Beauty against the Politicized Aesthetic" has appeared on First Principles, a series of essays begun in hopes of analyzing and reforming American conservatism as…
Truck Farm
These two intrepid fellows are out to prove that good food can be grown almost anywhere. This creative garden suggests that growing at least some food is not so much…
Interview with Me
Recently I was interviewed by the organizers of the website "The Conservatory." Here is an excerpt of the interview, as well as a link to the whole discussion.