Practical Freedom: Chains upon the Mind
Wherever political passions dominate in a school or a classroom, the freedom necessary for the mind to think and for the heart to love is burnt away.
Question the Cowards
“Question Authority,” say the academic generals, but God help you if you dare to question theirs.
On Intersections
Every lack presents an opportunity, but only if you have people with the inclination and the power to seize it. The Colonial Pipeline is only the latest example.
Peritus Parasitus Wants Its Host Alive But Not Healthy
How an ever-growing incompetent, ideologically driven expert class keeps us servile, stunted, confused, and ignorant.
A Forgotten Piety
We should honor our forebears for what they bequeathed to us, and squirm a little, because we would be hard put to say what we are leaving for our children, supposing that we have any.
What is the Goal?
Are today’s Progressives just individualists of the groin, as too many conservatives are simply individualists of the wallet?
Sanctity and Liberty
Our freedom is not to be measured by what our laws permit us to do, but by what our habits and the innumerable features of our culture give us the power to accomplish without the oversight of law.
Our Noisy and Noisome Age
When everyone is shouting, wisdom shuts its mouth, or joins in the folly.
Tearing Down Our Castles
Home and family, bulwarks of freedom and freedom-making in their turn, are hated by those who hate mankind and want to subject it to vast systems of social and political control.
The Knowing and Doing of Freedom
If you would be free, look to your hands.
Breaking the ‘Education’ Racket
Life is for everyone. Learning is for everyone. School is not. Colleges—such as they are now—certainly are not.
Practical Freedom, Part III
How free are a people? Tell me whether they know the names of their neighbors along the block, and what their children are doing on a sunny day in June.
Practical Freedom, Part II
You can have life, or you can have safety at all costs, but you cannot have both.
Practical Freedom
At every pass we have absorbed laws, not of morality, which are liberating, but of etiquette, which is a curb on adventure and genius, and of security and sloth, which deaden the soul.
We Treat Our Dogs Better Than Our Boys
There is a kind of natural anti-mimesis when it comes to what boys see girls doing. The boy must accomplish a task that the girl does not have to accomplish.
Trust Across the Ages
What we’re after cannot be captured in statistics: some sense of how far our practical liberty extends, protected not by policemen, penal codes, or forensic criminology but by trust in our countrymen.
The Dirty Game of Influence Peddling
Washington is a fever swamp of dishonor, patronage, and protection, host to an occupying government using the constitutional government as its sock puppet.
Powerful Interests Always Align Against the Independence of the Working Class
Promoting the trades, in an effort to alleviate poverty and crime, and to strengthen the working-class family, will require in us a real counterrevolution, a return to common sense and decency.
John Hay, Love of Country, and Our Vagabond Age
John Hay’s life offers a glimpse of what love of country looks like. If we cannot understand it, we truly are aliens and vagabonds upon the earth.
No Common Love, No Common Life
What happens when a formerly Christian nation forgets the reality of sin and our desperate need of grace?