John William Corrington: A Literary Conservative
It seemed a good time to get out and leave the classroom to idiots who couldn’t learn and didn’t know better, and imbeciles who couldn’t teach and should have known better.
The Connection Between Food and Fairies
It turns out locally-produced food is not only good for the body, but the spirit - especially the human capacity to intuit the sanctity of the world.
Nicholas Carr’s Shallows, and the Death of the Book
I just completed Nicholas Carr's excellent book, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, and--because that's the sort of person I...
A Note on Right, Left, and Lasch at the Present Time
If Lasch couldn't express a way for leftists and localists to speak the same language, perhaps no one can.
Idaho May…
"Would that thou couldst last for aye,
Merry, ever merry May"
--William D. Gallagher
Well, it can't. But herewith my May column from The American Conservative on...
Wendell Berry in the Big City
Mr. Wendell Berry of Kentucky will be in the Greater D.C. area this week, appearing at the Arlington Central Library Auditorium on Tuesday, May 4 at 7 p.m. Come early!
“Our Town” in The City
On the threshold between two unchosen ways of life - one of commitments, the other of choices. Both give rise to discontents, but ours today makes them a way of life.
Beating Back the Alien Dark
In 2007, we bought a house and moved to Greenville, North Carolina. Here, I recall the first rough day of home ownership, topped off by John Wayne and cold wine.
Does Kauffman count as good Good Friday reading?
Fr. Michael Orsi reviews Kauffman's Luther Martin, and finds wisdom therein.
Christian Democratic Communities and Teleological States: A Response to God’s Economy
If your religion--or at least your concept of the moral norms of the civil order--lacks a notion of grace, it therefore also lacks a notion of gifts; all it can say is that some people are lucky, not that some people are blessed.