Tag: freedom

Liberated for What

This piece is adapted slightly from a speech given at Spring Arbor University in Michigan at September's FPR Conference. The sexual revolution as we...

Why Patrick Deneen Failed

It's already an amazon dot hell best-seller in political theory.

Shared Governance and Mandatory Training: The New Incoherence

So long as gravity obtains, sawing off the branch you’re sitting on is never a good idea.

Branding Disaster

Earlier this year, after the Charlie Hebdo shootings, I reflected on the conversations that may or may not ensue from the changing of a...

Oneself as Another in the Controlled Burn: A Dispatch

Low flames and smoke and visions of the eschaton.

Equality and the Culture of Perpetual Offense

Hidden Springs Lane. Rod Dreher has recently been pointing out (for example here) the various ways that those who voice public opposition to certain...

Liberty and Circuits of the Sacred

A few days ago was the first time I heard Chinese being spoken with a heavy Indian accent.  Given the tenor of our times,...

The Case for Getting Married Young

Hidden Springs Lane. A couple months before my wife and I were married, a friend ask me "why do you want to get married...

The Founders on Taxation, Redistribution, and Property

Hidden Springs Lane. As the Fiscal Cliff looms, as Red States and Blues States stand more divided than ever, as the gap between the...

Now Let Us Raze Famous Men

He was looking at me with what appeared to be some degree of disbelief.