THE UNIVERSITY BOOKMAN and POSTMODERN CONSERVATISM
by Peter LawlerSo here’s a smart and uncritical (and therefore great) review of MODERN AND AMERICAN DIGNITY by the postmodern conservative Richard Reinsch. The editor of THE UNIVERSITY BOOKMAN encouraged me to post it to shamelessly promote me and his fascinating journal. The most capable followers of . . . . Continue Reading »
Michele (Ma Belle)
by Peter Lawler. . . those aren’t words that go together well—yet. But Bachmann won the debate in New Hampshire. She seemed like a sane, competent, charming, extremely conservative woman with all the right experience as the uncompromising chair of the Tea Party caucus. (She’s much better than . . . . Continue Reading »
I Saw Americans Fighting
by Peter LawlerComments by ME on Gates’ warning our NATO Allies. . . . . Continue Reading »
Chantal Delsol, Babel, and Pentecost
by Carl ScottI concluded the Songbook #6 essay by quoting Chantal Delsol in partial defense of, or rather, in sympathetic re-conceptualization of, the idealistic anti-war impulse. Delsol is a philosophic, essayistic, “anthropological,” Tocquevillian, and Catholic analyst of our present “late . . . . Continue Reading »
Carl’s Rock Songbook #6: Bob Dylan, “Blowin’ in the Wind”
by Carl ScottIn the comments on Songbook #5, I was reminded that Bono said he wrote the central verse of U2’s “New Year’s Day” with Solidarity’s struggle in mind. My reply there lays out the erotic and political elements any full analysis of that song would address, and why the . . . . Continue Reading »
Fanniegate
by Peter LawlerIs this the game-changing scandal the Republicans (led by the Tea Partiers) can get the country to believe in? It’d be “Main Street” rising up against the corrupt alliance between “Wall Street” and Democratic special interests. And it would have the big advantage of . . . . Continue Reading »
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