Part 2 of a two-part series . ACT III: ROSS: . . . and with that, I guess I yield the floor. DARA ( whispered ): You can always tell a former debater. HELEN ( whispered ): Did Ross do debate at Harvard? DARA ( whispered ): I don’t know. ROSS: So, questions? Yeah, there. HELEN: You said that . . . . Continue Reading »
Freddie : I gotta tell you, I’m such a fan of sweeping ideas and idiosyncratic solutions to social problems that I’m naturally kind of attracted to Newt Gingrich’s new grand scheme , even if it is from one of the more odious people in American politics. Certainly, I think . . . . Continue Reading »
Tristyn has scooped me a little, but, for those of you who don’t read the Yale Free Press blog, I’ll first say "Why?" and then remind you that everybody who’s anybody spent this past Saturday in Gun Wavin’ New Haven asking ISI’s illustrious representatives . . . . Continue Reading »
In trundling along on my path toward understanding how theological, cultural, social, and political conservatism are interrelated yet distinct things, I revisited a fine Heritage lecture by one James Ceaser called "Creed Versus Culture." There is no way to do justice to the whole lecture . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the hallmarks of the modern conception of man is a kind of anxious inquietude — we struggle to ovecome the diremption and alienation that haunts our consciousness. In the Lockean account, our restlessness is a function of our distance from nature — our capacity for . . . . Continue Reading »
Ross , as often transpires, has blogged something of interest: [ . . . ] Obama’s "ironist’s temperament" doesn’t just make him a more interesting politician than your average baby-kisser: It has the potential to be crucial to his success as President. Mass democracy has . . . . Continue Reading »
What are the springs of action that material well-being might unbend or loosen? I suppose they’re all the things that have to do with — acquiring material well-being, up to a point, of course. Everyone seems to agree that somewhere in the range of economic flourishing there is a point . . . . Continue Reading »
Lock your doors, hide the children, and frighten the horses—"femme theory" has come to town! As a heterosexual girl who is nevertheless more femme-y than feminine, I’ve been following Sublime Femme ‘s "Rethinking High Femme" series ( part 1 , part 2 ) with . . . . Continue Reading »
This may hurt a little. Any man, no matter who, will respond to a recording of his own voice with "Wait, I really sound like that?" That’s what I felt last week as I heard a smart young student speak in praise of suffering at an ISI lecture, for the slightly embarrassing reason that . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at the Confabulum I’ve tried to continue rolling out my conceptual brief against ideology . Part of my contention there is that in democratic times the allure of ideology is the condensation of politics, religion, and culture into a single, concise, comprehensive doctrine. A political . . . . Continue Reading »
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