Thanks Pete for the insightful response. I think that during the pre-hostility’s period the South’s emphasis on the 9th and 10th Amendments (state’s rights, etc) indicates their embrace, predicated on economic concerns, for the founding ideal of the sanctity of the . . . . Continue Reading »
So I just got in the mail the impressive newsletter from Pat Deneen’s Tocqueville Forum at Georgetown. Here’s its prosaic but kind of pithy summary of what I said there on Constitution Day: Dr. Peter Lawler argued that Locke’s ideas fit the Mystery Passage [ Planned Parenthood v. . . . . Continue Reading »
Night Shyamalan’s film, Devil , his latest installment in his series of mythopoeic movies, gives the viewer the opportunity to glimpse ever so briefly the reification of a theosophical speculation that may have its roots in Boehme, where evil is rendered by a very real demon grimly determined . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s my thought, following the lead of probably the second smartest citizen of Georgia of all time: Secession was stupid. In general, I’ll be following the events of that war with a focus on (the lack of) southern statesmanship. I will also have lots to say about Alexander Stephens, . . . . Continue Reading »
I was speaking with a colleague today. She was speaking of what is required in the definition of genius these days. She told me that in contemporary psychology the term genius is not used. Genius assumes too much fate, and fate is not a scientific term. Apparently, genius is now called gifted. When . . . . Continue Reading »
That’s something the other critics aren’t telling you. Still, it’s not much fun actually to watch, despite its twisted sex scenes that leave almost nothing to the imagination. If you want to talk about something else, then how about the country’s lessened hostility to . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s my take on Tocqueville’s take on it. This is evidence to support the view of Walker Percy that the Calvinists (Puritans) and the Southern Stoics are America’s indigenous counter-cultural alternatives. . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s my view, including an un-Porcher interpretation of the “Sputnik moment”—then and now. . . . . Continue Reading »
I sketched an appreciation of the Gipper meant to inform and provoke a general audience . It did generate numerous indignant responses from a NYC centrist Democratic talk-radio guy. Had I wanted to provoke our porcher friends I would said more about Carter’s malaise, “crisis of . . . . Continue Reading »
1. I certainly am happy John has joined us, and his first post was one of our best ever, in my view. 2. I’m continuing my vain effort to mainstream the wisdom of postmodern conservatism (on happiness, for the moment) here . . . . . Continue Reading »
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