Culture, High & Low

Culture and the Front Porch

What is culture? What hath attachment to do with culture? Why are front porches necessary for culture? Culture is something...

Robo-umps and Us

As is so often the case when new technology promises to correct the errors of human fallibility, robo-umps could be bad for everyone involved.

When the Witch of November Comes Stealin’

There’s a certain aching joy in the chill of regret.

Walking in a Dead Man’s Shoes

A woman in another kind of grief uttered the terrible “should have been.”

Joyless Moderns

The modern age, in almost every detail, began with the flat rejection of joy.  And the modern condition consists in alternately lamenting that there...

Why Patrick Deneen Failed

It's already an amazon dot hell best-seller in political theory.

Pornified Puritans and the Logic of Pornography

Hidden Springs Lane Al Franken is only the latest prominent man to be discovered as a lecherous cad if not an outright sexual predator....

A Few Favorable Words About Jud Heathcote

I understood immediately why Skiles was a Spartan and I was not.

Good Night, Sweet Babe Magnet

It's as if two men are talking fondly about a woman both of them were once married to.

Breaking Through the Screen Door: The Jayhawks’ Hollywood Town Hall, Twenty-Five...

A couple of years ago my wife had a minor accident, the kind that results in an older car being mysteriously “totaled.” Before the...