Over at NRO’s Corner, Veronique de Rugy correctly questions whether Obama’s announced “fix” today, where he says insurance companies won’t be required to suspend existing plans, is a change he has the legal authority to make: . . . can he just decide not to enforce the law? . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, winner of the Buckley Award , anyway. Ryan, a former assistant editor and now a member of our Advisory Council, was one of the five people awarded the Young Conservative Coalition’s award for young conservative leaders. The biography included mentions his “influence and . . . . Continue Reading »
The little metal shed at the corner near the office sells candy, soft drinks, and magazines, with the magazines—mostly People and its peers—on a shelf sticking out from the corner of the shed so that the passersby notice them. I pick up something about popular culture from scanning . . . . Continue Reading »
A recent image of Pope Francis holding a T-shirt with the slogan “No al Fracking”—“No to Fracking”—has sparked varied response, including worries from Sarah Palin and praise from environmental groups . Reports from a meeting held on Monday between Francis and Argentine . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m not so good at making predictions. I did predict ObamaCare wouldn’t work over the long term, but I never thought that it wouldn’t experience some initial ambiguous success. On the True-False quiz: I’m encouraged by the large number of astute responses. I think the answer . . . . Continue Reading »
Hey, I know, this is Postmodern Conservative , and I should be telling you how the deep thought of Alexis de Tocqueville, Walker Percy, and The Velvet Underground’s third LP applies to the disastrous Obamacare Roll-out. But, beyond my knowing about such things, I’ve not got much . . . . Continue Reading »
Last Meals Brent Cunningham, Lapham’s Quarterly The Local, Universal Master Ingrid D. Rowland, New York Review of Books The Last Jew in Afghanistan Jessica Donati & Mirwais Harooni, Reuters The Boring Word in Theology Scot McKnight, Jesus Creed Jesuits, Dominicans, and the Reformation Br. . . . . Continue Reading »
Via Helen Rittelmeyer on Twitter, here is a lovely post by Brooke Conti on what we miss when we miss friendships from our younger days: When I was in my twenties, I was enmeshed in my friends’ lives in ways that went beyond our constant phone calls. We actually lived with each other, even . . . . Continue Reading »
I wish to thank Gerald McDermott for his response to my opening First Things blog . Rather than addressing what he says in a straightforward manner, in part because I recognize agreement on the basic thrust and do not wish to quibble over the details, let me propose a way forward. First, I think my . . . . Continue Reading »
Today’s On The Square column is about how a limited government politics should do more to take our relational natures into account. . . . . Continue Reading »
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