American Goodness
The springs of goodness are still there, I believe, because God has not withdrawn his grace from the nation, but they are to be found in the small, the local, the homely, and even the private.
Ingratitude Incorporated
When women demand to be soldiers—or rather when women in positions of power demand that girls be drafted along with the boys—they cannot possibly be thinking about the welfare of their brothers.
Single-Sex Education: A Tradition to Reconsider?
As I’ve grown more aware of what colleges used to be like, I wonder why we take for granted the superiority of having boys and girls, or young men and women, together everywhere and all the time.
The Leaky Bucket
If you do not have the family, your bucket has been punched full of holes. Not all the water in the world can fill it, because it leaks out as soon as you pour it in.
Blood Insanity
Of course, this is all a bad dream. Of course.
From Enlightenment to Ignorance: Society’s Dangerous Embrace of Stupidity
You are stupid when you gape indifferently at something excellent that you have the power to understand but without understanding it and without caring to.
Exploring Locke’s Legacy: Government, Property, and the Capitalistic Vision
Those who criticize capitalism are like a sullen and disgruntled twin brother, envious of what the other has accomplished but taking it for granted anyway.
From Palliser to Primaries: Bemoaning the Lack of Thoughtful Leadership in the New Hampshire Primary
Trollope’s even-handedness with the important political issues of his time would not go over well with writers, actors, and directors today.
Someday, We Can Have a Serious Political Discussion of What God’s Presence Means
May God’s blessings be upon you and yours
Returning to Rockwell’s ‘Saying Grace’ America
What was done once can be done again
Let There Be Nations; Let There be Hosts and Guests
It is not good for the world to be homogeneous
Is It Our Government? Or Their Government?
What is the creature we call the State? Or are WE creatures of the State?
Sir Walter Scott’s ‘Waverley’ Inverse to Hollywood’s ‘Barbie’
You cannot get grownups to have a sober, rational conversation about any of our social and economic problems, because someone will pull the infantilizing trigger.
If We See the Constitution in its Proper Light, We May Begin to Honor it Again
We have made the Constitution into a sacred object, a touchstone of divinity; and in that regard, we are like savages who stare at a running engine and believe that a god is in the works.
Perpetual Adolescence
I have been an inveterate fan of the Saint Louis Cardinals ever since their flashy team, long on power pitching, speed on the bases and […]
Nothing, No Place, and No One
I am glad that the recent case involving the creative designer in Colorado was decided correctly, as the justices of the Supreme Court determined that […]
No God, No Culture
When you drum all religious sensibility out of the public sphere, most of the classics of your own literary and artistic heritage must inevitably follow.
Jabba the State and Kanamit, Inc. Seek to Serve Man
People will say it’s all about business, all for money.
I don’t know that I agree.
I don’t know that I agree.
To Love the Nearer Things
You should be proud of your state, or at least of what your state was, when it was really a state and not just a provincial appendage of the national government.
An Inhuman Ugliness
The arsonist you will always have with you. But must the arsonist be met with cheers? Must all our passions for justice be transmogrified into hysteria?