Jun 26 2008
Anthony Esolen at Touchstone Magazine’s blog, Mere Comments, has an excellent – and I empasize, excellent – post on hierarchy in response to a comment on Rod Dreher’s blog. I don’t usually republish entire posts of other people, but this is worth the read and eloquently put: Between Obedience and Obedience A blogger at Rod [...]
Jun 23 2008
Why is that my Alma Mater loves to inundate me with solicitations for money (clearly, they haven’t looked at how much of my tuition was paid with loans), but completely fail to inform me of things that are actually impressive. From the homepage of the site headlined, “Defining Wisdom”: WELCOME TO THE WISDOM RESEARCH NETWORK [...]
Jun 20 2008
 For the Church. O GRACIOUS Father, we humbly beseech thee for thy holy Catholic Church; that thou wouldest be pleased to fill it with all truth, in all peace. Where it is corrupt, purify it; where it is in error, direct it; where in any thing it is amiss, reform it. Where it is right, [...]
Jun 20 2008
I came across while doing some research at work on Burke’s aesthetics. Turns out Neal Wood was kind of a lefty wacko, but the essay from which this excerpt is taken, The Aesthetic Dimension of Burke’s Political Thought, is excellent. I think it points out something that is sorely lacking from our culture.The bold added [...]
Jun 19 2008
It is my experience that when people utter the words, “So, you think…” they are usually just moments away from saying something incredibly stupid and exaggerated.
Jun 19 2008
There are obviously many things I don’t like about modern liberalism. This is probably one of the worst. Here are two good examples of what I’m talking about: First, the Washington Post had a piece recently about a growing number of “pro-life drugstores†– places that offer all the wares of a normal drugstore, but [...]
Jun 18 2008
Ross Douthat posts a comment shared with him by a friend: You’re going too easy on Brad DeLong today, whose reading of Burke is very far off the mark in my opinion; but your original definition doesn’t really work for me either. Burke is not a utilitarian “content-free” conservative. He thinks there is a kind [...]
Jun 15 2008
Note: This is now a revised and updated version of my original post. The changes to the interpretation were only anecdotal, while the introductory section was mostly rewritten entirely (6/24/08). Being a recent philosophy major from The University of Chicago, you might forgive me if I’m inclined to read between the lines of even seemingly [...]
Jun 11 2008
While having a drink at a sports bar with a friend late Friday night, he pointed to one of the TVs and asked me what I thought of women’s golf. I replied by turning my thumb down. “Why?†he asked. “Because golf is a gentleman’s sport. Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden. It is our refuge.†He [...]
Jun 09 2008
The Economist: Farmers have raped our land, pillaged the earth, and stunted our growth. But was it all bad…
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