Caleb Stegall
Caleb Stegall lives in Jefferson County, Kansas.
Articles by Caleb Stegall
Local History
JEFFERSON COUNTY, KANSAS. It's been seventy years since John Steuart Curry unveiled his masterpiece murals on the walls of the Kansas State House. Their anarchic depiction of my home land…
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…
A Good Taxonomy
My own views would fall most accurately along the continuum between anarcho-capitalist and conservative-traditionalist...
Avatar: Reviewing the Reviewers
JEFFERSON COUNTY, KANSAS. I am not a film critic and what follows is not a movie review. In fact, my movie tastes run decidedly to the petite bourgeoisie, and beyond…
The New Prohibitionists
JEFFERSON COUNTY, KANSAS. Something is not right on The Porch. But on my porch, things are just dandy, so smoke 'em if you got 'em boys! Puff puff puff and…
We Interrupt This Broadcast for a Moment of Rank Cynicism
Patrick just posted that the great man himself was heard describing Michelle ma' Belle's kitchen garden as the "most important plot of land in America." Patrick tells me that in…
Noted Without Comment
"People concerned with the rights of unborn fetuses should be more concerned with the needs of children. No child could possibly get what he or she needs in a two…
False Economics and Malignant Growth
Patrick Deneen's excellent post this morning on populism, directly invoking Kansas, gives me the occassion to repost a short essay I wrote last year for my on again off again (more off…
Dreher Reviews Palin
Quote: Palin positions herself as a populist, but her populism is entirely cultural. She never misses an opportunity to tell us how weepy she gets when she thinks about our…