Who Wants that Castle Down?
Who profits from the disintegration of the American family? Who profits from its invasion by mass entertainment, mass media, and mass schooling, three prongs of one pitchfork?
Is America Raising a Generation of Idiots?
The principle of the idiot is self-sufficiency, self-ownership. The motive force is self-will.
Sing, America!
Must everyone cease to sing, because the village atheist is hoarse?
Our Dark Age
The Supreme Court, in retreating from its long-standing usurpation of legislative power in cultural matters, has cleared a way toward the recovery of a high and humane moral vision.
Can Republicans Save the Middle Class?
A certain kind of rich man’s policies and hobbies are a bulldozer rolling over the poor.
Shifting Away from the Liberalism of the Zipper
The absurdities of the Pelvic Left demand that serious people calling themselves conservatives should return to asking what we wish to conserve, and why, and how we can do it.
The World Does Not Run on Magic
Many a boy languishes in school because he finds no arrow there.
The Great and Unreliable Informant
Social media is not conducive to the clear-headed and dispassionate evaluation of alternatives that must characterize every prudential decision.
The Habit of Cultivating Mediocre Judgment
Far be it from us to forbid people to derive comfort from tacky but innocent art. But far be it also to hold persons and their works above criticism because we like their politics.
Chivalry Is Dead? No Kidding
Sexual indifference inevitably leads to a toxic ingratitude and a severance of the sexes, a celebration of women as apart from and against their brothers.
Who Will Be America’s Teachers?
You catch the fire of love from someone else on fire. So do you also catch smallpox—the smallpox of reducing everything to a political aim.
Rejecting ‘America’ for the Sake of America
I want America to remember that realism that sometimes goes by the name of humility, promise keeping, diligence, and gratitude.
Longing for Home
Perhaps “Letter from Home” is a letter to us, who have wandered into a far country, not to fight but to give ourselves up to vanity.
The Death of Muscular American Social Life
Will we be left with the worst of all worlds: moralism without morality, socialism without sociality, children without childhood, and humor without humor?
The Judgments of Time
Because of our technology, the shallowness of the cast of “The View” will be on display for anyone to see, for 1,000 years. But they do not tremble. I would, in their shoes.
Unthinking Tools of Unreason Itself
The licensers in Milton’s time feared the bad examples that the untrained mind might derive from bad books. But they were veritable champions of a free press compared to what we have now.
Children Outdoors, Living Adventures
The devil-may-care liveliness of American youth is gone. What have we done to make such a child-poor and child-unfriendly world?
A Christmas Meditation on the Words of the Gospel
The story of Jesus is not like the story of man. It is instead the key that opens the story of man.
Our Enemies Wait As We Destroy Ourselves
Russia waits, no longer ideological, but moving slowly and gingerly toward the Christian heritage that once made her a nation, even as we stupidly toss our own culture away.
Dreams of the Underlings
When will we “underlings” stand up to the corporate giants and act like Americans again?