Asides

May 22, 2015

I read a piece in The Week today, provocatively entitled "Pay politicians like movie stars!" The author, Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, has taken…

May 19, 2015

Writes Pat Buchanan of his work these last ten years: Our agenda in that decade was—stay out of wars that…

May 18, 2015

Patrick Deneen in First Things, on Indiana's RFRA fight: This past spring, we saw something quite different and revealing and worrying.…

May 13, 2015

“… but the soul of the hearer must be prepared by good habits to rejoice in the good and hate…

May 10, 2015

Booth Tarkington and Jeremy Beer, that is. From The American Conservative. And what the hell, here's R. Dean Taylor (a…

May 9, 2015

Sarah Perry, who appeared in these pages this week, has another piece at Ribbonfarm on "weaponized sacredness": Preference falsification is…

May 6, 2015

“The treasures within the earth were long hidden, and trees and forests were thought of as her ultimate gift to…

May 4, 2015

Join us on October 3 in Geneseo, NY for our fifth annual conference. Our keynote speaker this year will be…

May 2, 2015

The John Jay Institute's symposium on home is online now. Go read it, lots of great stuff in there. The…

April 30, 2015

The Congress for a New Urbanism is meeting in Dallas this weekend, and TAC's New Urbs will be there, hosting…

April 29, 2015

My latest post over at The Mitrailleuse: If orthodox Christians, particularly Catholics, wonder why religious liberty no longer seems to apply…

April 29, 2015

The annual conference of the Academy of Philosophy and Letters will once again be held in Baltimore this year at…