I recently came across the following passage from the architect Ralph Adams Cram’s commencement address at the Yale School of Fine Arts (as it was then called), published in The Ministry of Art (1914): The artist is bound and controlled by the laws of his art, but doubly is he bound by his . . . . Continue Reading »
Ayn Rand acolyte, Nick Newcomen, has driven 12,328 miles with a GPS tracking device on to spell out “Read Ayn Rand” . According to The Guardian , “Newcomen took about 10 days to complete each word, turning on his GPS logger when he wanted to write and turning it off between . . . . Continue Reading »
David Goldman’s A Depressing Double Dip , today’s second “On the Square,” is now up. In it he argues that the economy has several deep sources of weakness the forecasters didn’t forecast, and that they “derive from long-term demographic changes rather than . . . . Continue Reading »
In response to my article on polyamory, mentioned in Why Just Two? , Hadley Arkes wrote me with a few comments of his own on the subject, which he’s given me permission to post here. During the hearings over the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996, he wrote, he and Robert George had argued . . . . Continue Reading »
So here’s a dramatically out-of-context excerpt from my Whitman presentation. Whitman explains that “the democratic republican principle” is “the theory of development and perfection by voluntary standards.” So that principle is less about perfecting the institutions of . . . . Continue Reading »
Let me share just one paragraph of my presentation at the APSA with you. More than that would undermine your incentive to get up early on Sunday. It often seems as if America’s Lockean foundation offered our country a kind of stability that was undermined by the Darwinian theory about the . . . . Continue Reading »
Today I weighed in on the Ground Zero mosque controversy , making a case that it’s not a big deal. A major premise of my argument is that Islam is not all that much of a factor in America. It’s something many of us fail to see, because we misread the behavior of the liberal . . . . Continue Reading »
As proof that we Christians don’t have exclusive rights to the making of cheesy, religious-oriented videos , I give you the National Jewish Outreach Program’s reimagining of Kanye West’s “Gold Digger.” Who knew Rosh Hashanah was inspired by the movie Pay It Forward ? . . . . Continue Reading »
In To Mosque or Not to Mosque , today’s first “On the Square” article, R. R. Reno declares that he doesn’t really care about the controversy over the “9/11 mosque,” and then explains why. “Let’s look at the context,” he writes. America is an . . . . Continue Reading »
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