Reihan Salam points to some of the budgetary and political problems related to denying food and health care subsidies to those who would be getting amnesty. You will have millions of people (many very poor and in mixed-status families). These people will be connected to their communities and care . . . . Continue Reading »
So an “indisciplinary research agenda” has been developing among postmodern conservatives over the last couple of years. I don’t have time to flesh it out, but it involves Texas and Arkansas and focuses especially on the status of southern virtue—incuding but not only the . . . . Continue Reading »
A Voyage to Libertopia Amanda Achtman, Intercollegiate Review The Thriving Classical School Movement Julia Duin, CNN American Agrarian (On Sale Now) R. J. Snell, Front Porch Republic The Trinity as Old Testament Book Club Fred Sanders, Scriptorium A Conversation with Ron Hansen Editors, Dappled . . . . Continue Reading »
The average persons’ opinions are, as far as I can tell, generally positive on New York City’s new rent a bike program , except for those living in neighborhoods where the racks have been badly placed and those who dislike anything that makes New York look more like Europe. At least one . . . . Continue Reading »
Here are a few preliminary thoughts and questions about the recent announcement that Exodus International, the largest and most influential of the so-called “ex-gay” ministries, will be closing its doors : 1. Like many younger people who are Christian and gay, I have shied away from much . . . . Continue Reading »
So you’ve now all had time to see MUD. Peter’s reading of it as something of a response to TRUE GRIT, and in dialogue with other films about how The South responds to American Modernity, is a promising and characteristically Lawlerian take. Jeff Nichols does seem just the kind of director . . . . Continue Reading »
So I saw the latest Superman. I wanted to like it, especially after Pete’s enthusiastic recommendation and Ramsey’s eloquently philosophical one in the thread. Too much of the movie is given over to boring fight scenes. It’s just never clear what you have to do to kill someone . . . . Continue Reading »
1. This Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry post did not get enough attention when it came out. It has lots of good stuff. One especially important observation: the GOP’s lack of a middle-class agenda makes it easier for their opponents to portray them as the party of white identity . . . . Continue Reading »
One thing (though far from the only thing) that makes me look forward to Peter Lawler posts is that they often help crystallize my thoughts. Peter writes about talking to the New Atlantis guys about assimilation, but I’m not so worried about assimilation per se. As a general rule, America is . . . . Continue Reading »
A state judge in New Hampshire has ruled against a recently enacted program that would have provided tax credits to businesses that contributed to scholarship organizations similar to those in the Arizona program upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2011. There are a few things about the opinion . . . . Continue Reading »
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