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?
Our Politics of Everything and Nothing
We have the worst of silliness united with the worst of ambition. Where politics is everywhere and everything, politics itself is the first casualty.
The Waste of Our Ignorant Age
America has problems, cultural, economic, and political, that cannot be addressed, let alone discussed, in the current climate of hysteria, irresponsibility, and ignorance.
Are We a Population or a People?
A population is easy to control so long as they are fed but a people must have a culture.
What’s Wrong With Nationalism?
It is a mark of piety to love the place of your birth, to prefer it above other places, to want it to be itself and not just like everywhere else.
A Massive Effort at Moral Rebuilding Is Necessary
Our cardinal institutions are sickly, incompetent, or perverse and in need of total reform. Yet what we must do, we must do. So let us begin to do it.
A Winter Eden
Something of that odd winter cheer comes through for us in our poem this week, Robert Frost’s “A Winter Eden.”
Read Something Other Than Current Politics
When you get away from the fury of your own political issues, you have a chance, born of leisure and human sympathy, to think about complex matters in a mature, even-handed, and impartial way.
The Bad Faith Arguments Against Marriage Defenders
They assume that opponents act from irrational passion, because that is what, secretly and probably unwittingly, they assume all moral judgments to be.
Advent
Our word advent comes from the Latin, and it’s made up of two parts. But what you may not realize is its connection to adventure.