Caleb Stegall

Caleb Stegall
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Caleb Stegall lives in Jefferson County, Kansas.

Recent Essays

One Tea Party Too Late

Derbyshire in the latest TAC: ere are the Tea Partiers vowing to “take back America.” Is there any real prospect of their doing so? If...

FPR: Ho Chi Minh Fever Dream?

FPR in the Weekly Standard: Getting Under JPod's Skin

A Good Taxonomy

My own views would fall most accurately along the continuum between anarcho-capitalist and conservative-traditionalist...

Election by Lottery

Let's just go all the way, folks.

Deschooling

Education should be a reason to come back.

Avatar: Reviewing the Reviewers

JEFFERSON COUNTY, KANSAS.  I am not a film critic and what follows is not a movie review.  In fact, my movie tastes run decidedly...

The New Prohibitionists

JEFFERSON COUNTY, KANSAS.  Something is not right on The Porch.  But on my porch, things are just dandy, so smoke 'em if you got...

We Interrupt This Broadcast for a Moment of Rank Cynicism

Patrick just posted that the great man himself was heard describing Michelle ma' Belle's kitchen garden as the "most important plot of land in...

Noted Without Comment

"People concerned with the rights of unborn fetuses should be more concerned with the needs of children. No child could possibly get what he...

False Economics and Malignant Growth

Patrick Deneen's excellent post this morning on populism, directly invoking Kansas, gives me the occassion to repost a short essay I wrote last year for my...

Dreher Reviews Palin

Quote: Palin positions herself as a populist, but her populism is entirely cultural. She never misses an opportunity to tell us how weepy she gets...

Woods on Fox

State's rights, state legislatures, repeal of 16th and 17th, constitutional convention, and even nullification, coming back into the so-called mainstream discussion.