Caleb Stegall

Caleb Stegall lives in Jefferson County, Kansas.
Articles by Caleb Stegall
Primary Colors
A report from the heartland.
Scary Story
Next time your kids ask you to tell them a scary story, show them this slide show. Only I imagine this one will be keeping the parents awake at night.
New Blog
Long time friend of FPR, Michael Brendan Dougherty, has a new blog. Go read it. On why his blog has no comments: "They boost traffic and make people feel they…
Supremacy?
Yesterday's ruling in the Arizona immigration law matter by Federal District Judge Susan Bolton is reverberating around the internet today. Most of the heat is generated by the substantive policy…
CLS v Martinez, Again
I am going to try something largely inadvisable and possibly impossible, which is to explain the Court’s speech related First Amendment jurisprudence in accessible layman’s terms.
Dr. Krustian, Phd.
Over on the hip lefty Sojourner's blog, Chris Rice douses the fires of American sin with the holy waters of sanctimony in an entry ominously and alliteratively titled: "The War, the Well, and…
The Lightning Oracle
What a trifling thing it is to control man! How easily we believe in fairy tales when they come cloaked in the black box of authority and superior knowledge.
On Local Radio
My appearance on local radio yesterday discussing politics and law, both practical and philosophical. Skip to the 55 minute mark.
Leaf Subsides to Leaf
Dreher posts a wonderful reminiscence on his home, on place, and on the ravages of time.
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.
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.
Blogger Self Loathing
Can I gloat?