Asides

October 26, 2009

"I love Old October so, I can't bear to see her go---" ---James Whitcomb Riley Via The American Conservative: http://www.amconmag.com/article/2009/dec/01/00050/…

October 22, 2009

As a founding editor of this here social club---the site's name is derived from the subtitle of one of my…

October 22, 2009

"Straussians in basic agreement with Kristol answer yes to the first question. Though no great critics of Plato, pro-Tocquevillian Straussians…

October 22, 2009

"While I’m not declaring that the battle against our enemies is irreversibly lost, I’m definitely saying that paleoconservatives will not…

October 21, 2009

Richard Spencer: "I guess I just respect and admire the church more when it’s in a bold, aggressive, “pagan” mood,…

October 21, 2009

A great many comments have been posted in response to my posting, "Subsidizing Localism."  I think the question I sought…

October 20, 2009

The boys at Taki's Mag are sniping and griping about FPR (how could they have missed our passing case of…

October 20, 2009

"I think a writer who leaves his roots leaves any hope of writing importantly"---John Gardner Those so favored by the…

October 16, 2009

In today's Wall Street Journal, I review Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain and What it Means for America…

October 16, 2009

Claremont, CA. This is just too good. Driving near Universal City last weekend, I saw a sign for what is…

October 15, 2009

One of America's more interesting and less predictable feminist public intellectual voices, Arlie Hochschild, has a few things to say…

October 15, 2009

Finally, a reckoning:  Drew Gilpin Faust, President of Harvard, fesses up: At this moment in our history, universities might well…