Austin Stone

    When does a quantitative change in politics become a qualitative one?  Many, including Karl Marx, have puzzled over this question without providing a fully satisfactory response. At long last an answer now appears to be at our disposal. Blago, Bernie, and Barack, each in his . . . . Continue Reading »

Wendy’s life borders on chaos. What could make her life easier? A team of experts in colorful blouses with good hair, of course — according to Real Simple magazine’s new reality TV show. By Laura Vanderkam . An American town is living in a past that isn’t even real . The . . . . Continue Reading »

Justin Hart’s daughter goes to her first Mormon Saturday Night Dance . Both father and daughter leave with a smile on their faces. The coke-fueled nights of Hollywood were his normative experience; the mundane conventions of suburban Cleveland feel exotic to him. Joe Eszterhas, however, is . . . . Continue Reading »

 One of the basic distinctions in contemporary thought about thinking is between brain and mind. "Brain" means the organic machine inside our skulls. "Mind" is more elusive: it can refer to anything from the generic subject of any possible judgement to the syndrome of . . . . Continue Reading »

Over at the First Principles website Saginaw Valley State University professor Lee Trepanier has a thoughtful essay ( Voegelin and Christianity ) explicating Voegelin’s now famous revision of his project, specifically his rejection, introduced in Order and History: Vol. IV , of the . . . . Continue Reading »

Contributing to a festschrift devoted to George Carey, our own Peter Lawler reflects on the American founding and the complicated set of sometimes inconsistent principles that is our intellectual inheritance. If it turns out that there is no univocal theory that can decisively be articulated as . . . . Continue Reading »

Nicola Karras’ argument for conservatism leaves traditional partisan rhetoric in the dust: "The more we depend on government, the less connection we have with one another." Her graceful essay is not to be missed. Ladyblog’s Manblogger: Your broken moral compass that always . . . . Continue Reading »

Jeffrey Kripal is the latest professor of religious studies to come out, in good modern style, writing off Christianity (and presumably Judaism) as a pooped-out and poopy old farce for stunted schmucks who worship, in Aldous Huxley’s (Joycean, not Blakean) phrase, "Old Noboddady." . . . . Continue Reading »

Our own Peter Lawler is the James Brown of the blogosphere, the hardest working man in the business. Over at the the Encyclopedia Britannica blog , he argues that a "postmodernism, rightly understood" is essentially a realism that counters our modern tendency towards . . . . Continue Reading »

One of our leading experts on the ethics and public policy of scientific innovation, Yuval Levin has written a searching and philosophically deep book on the complicated relationship between science and politics in America. He addresses the divergent ways in which the right and the left typically . . . . Continue Reading »