J. Arthur Bloom
J. Arthur Bloom has served as the managing editor of Front Porch Republic, opinion editor of the Daily Caller, and was the founder of the group blog The Mitrailleuse. Previously he was associate editor of The American Conservative. He is a graduate of the College of William and Mary, and a Virginian.
Articles by J. Arthur Bloom
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From "Homeschooling and Christian Duty," by Sally Thomas, in First Things: The idea of sending a child daily into a hostile environment—if not actively hostile, as in bullying, then certainly philosophically…
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Patrick Deneen in First Things, on Indiana's RFRA fight: This past spring, we saw something quite different and revealing and worrying. With the imprimatur of American elites, which was clearly given…
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Sarah Perry, who appeared in these pages this week, has another piece at Ribbonfarm on "weaponized sacredness": Preference falsification is a mechanism by which sacredness can operate. But sacredness is…
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The John Jay Institute's symposium on home is online now. Go read it, lots of great stuff in there. The State Dept won't let an Iraqi nun in to testify…
TAC New Urbanism Panel in Dallas This Friday
The Congress for a New Urbanism is meeting in Dallas this weekend, and TAC's New Urbs will be there, hosting what looks to be an awesome panel tomorrow afternoon: Friday…
Religious Liberty Isn’t for Conservatives
My latest post over at The Mitrailleuse: If orthodox Christians, particularly Catholics, wonder why religious liberty no longer seems to apply to them, a large part of the answer is that…
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If Rush Limbaugh hates it, it's probably a good idea: When Dan Price said last week that he would cut his own pay and profits to make it possible to…
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Hillary Clinton's Chipotle order: Hillary Clinton, fighter of children A bizarre and perverse paragraph in the New York Times: Traveling this fascinating and contradictory land today, one must acknowledge a…
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Police are investigating a sighting of an alligator in the Monongahela River Archaeologists defy ISIS by finding new artifacts in Iraq Earth Island Journal interviews Wendell Berry: I've already explained…
The Socialist Party and the Old Right
A slightly edited version of this talk was delivered at a forum at the National Press Club on April 9, 2015, entitled "American Socialism Reconsidered," on the occasion of Jack Ross's…
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If you come across articles I should include in this weekly round-up, email me at bloom.jordan[at]gmail[dot]com or tweet me here. The City of Detroit is pettifogging one of the best…
The Problem with TNR’s Pope Francis Cover Story
I have a long piece up at TheDC, more words than you probably wanted to read on the New Republic's cover story on Pope Francis, but it touches on certain…