Results for “Red Tory”
Q: What Caused the Culture Wars? A: Globalization and the Pill
...lived “traditionalist” practices (and vice versa)? Rauch, summarizing Cahn and Carbone’s research, reduces it to a bare-bones slogan: “In red America, families form adults; in blue America, adults form…
The Danger of Hope: Lana Del Rey, Stephen King, and Wendell Berry in the Days of COVID-19
...fellow inmates in the dining hall and has a brief conversation with his friend Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding about the need for things like music. Andy tells Red that…
Christian Democratic Communities and Teleological States: A Response to God’s Economy
...the U.S., and the connection which “Red Toryism” might have to subsidiarian and localist reforms of the welfare state. While he was cheered by Blond’s diagnosis of our present…
Leftovers, Dumb Phones, and Waiting Tables
...forgotten the ways we used to cook.” “The Tory Tradition.” Michael J. Connolly provides an intellectual history of the Tory sensibility: “There is a Tory tradition in America that…
A Review of Verlaine Stoner Mcdonald’s The Red Corner
...whether they were operating in the best interests of farmers. Considering the events that have transpired since the book’s initial publication in 2010, The Red Corner remains not only…
Ruddy Glory: The Resonance of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
...and by spring of the following year, his brother-in-law, Johnny Marks, had composed the now ubiquitous holiday song, “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” In 1949, my father (a red-haired, asthmatic…
Rock n’ Roll, Inc: The Power Source Behind America’s Founding and its Operational Strength
...thus it came to pass (one year later) that several hundred people convened at Red River for a three-day vigil, thereby kicking off the nation’s first “camp meeting”. The…
Braver Angels and Civil Conversation across Partisan Divides
...Americans three weeks after the 2016 election. Ten neighbors who had just voted for Donald Trump gathered for a weekend with 11 neighbors who had just voted for Hillary…
Take to the Land: A Strategy for Third Parties
...voting red interrupted occasionally by zones of blue, mostly on the coasts. The reaction is predictable: on the right, rage that so much U.S. geography is domineered by those…
The Names of Things
...fading meadow, into denser woods and undergrowth. To continue straight is to follow the property line into grass-held territory. A few trees have helicoptered into the grass behind the…
Homeschooling and Red Herrings
Perhaps, in retrospect, one thing that the pandemic has done was bring homeschooling more prominently into public consciousness than before. Many conversations have been positive—indeed, some have cheered the…
Map-Burning
...outside the industrial story machine. Industrial storytellers orchestrate a fake split between left and right, and this manufactured split foments hatred between neighbors. For instance, my wife once overheard…
New FPR Feature: MLB predictions that you can take to Vegas…
...West. Reds in the central. And since the only radio station I now get in Hillsdale that broadcasts the real (read: National) league comes to me from Cincinnati, and…
One Lawyer, No Money, Plenty of Guns
...was an American. The phrase “gun show” reduces Ellen Goodman readers to enuresis. Yet Alexander is basically a rural swap meet, as friendships are renewed and shotguns and ammo…
Conservatism in a Liberal Regime
...Geddert introduces readers to the loyalist John Strachan, first Anglican bishop of Toronto prior to Confederation, to illustrate the presence of Tory ideas. Strachan argued that British North America…
Tolkien, Philosopher of War
...the mind is least consulted, and where the workshop may, without any great effort of imagination, be considered as an engine, the parts of which are men… But if…
Who is Phillip Blond?
Here is an interview from The Guardian. Blond has the ear of David Cameron, calls himself a Red Tory, and is launching a new think tank in the fall.…
Localist Principles, Populist Words (or, The Problem Defined)
...my own one weak hope: the Red Tory/left conservative/Laschian breakthrough! Though I suspect I’m mostly alone in believing the United States should strive to learn “conservative” or “communitarian” lessons…
Libertarian Solutions to Communal Difficulties
...America more than a year ago; and some will recall, also, that a person in the audience of Blond’s Georgetown address wrote Patrick Deneen to suggest that a more…
We Have Met the Enemy, and He is Us
...One final exemplar of the problem. Phillip Blond recently made a tour of the East Coast to garner support for an American equivalent to his “Red Tory” movement among…
A Post-Election Symposium
...the Elephant’s Standard, securing easy victory. The real cause for defeat may be quite the opposite. The Romney/Ryan campaign was actually anemic on the social issues. GOP experts smothered…
Adam and Eve on the Porch: The Place of Majestic Man
...in the sense of lacking friends of relationships. Rather, he is lonely because he “is a man of faith for whom to be means to believe, and who substituted…
Left (not Liberal) Conservatism (or Communitarianism, if you Prefer): A Restatement
...a cadre of permanently empowered commissars getting people fired for unwise Twitter likes rather than any dramatic interracial wealth redistribution. I am a cynical conservative, so you can dismiss…
Vanishing Little Languages
...Portugal is a veritable tapestry of regional specialties. Recently, I discovered Terras de Portugal, an online encyclopedia providing detailed history for nearly every Portuguese locality. Flipping through tabs on…
