Slight update on SIGNPOSTINGS: I also found there Colin’s reflections on what’s good and bad about living in THE GOLDEN AGE OF TV—yet another postmodern yet conservative theme: Too much disdain for convention and ordinary storytelling and narrative, way too self-indulgent when it . . . . Continue Reading »
As far as I know, the only other BLOG that deals with all our POSTMODERN and CONSERVATIVE themes is SIGNPOSTINGS, which mainly features posts by our threader Colin Brown. Percy, Tocqueville, Southern literature, Strauss, moderate anti-placism—it’s all displayed thoughtfully and . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Kate writes: The current progressive tax system is based in a class-envy model of taxation. Maybe for quite a few on the left, but many on the right ( including Greg Mankiw) can support a progressive tax system with no reference to envy. The diminishing marginal utility of the dollar is implicit . . . . Continue Reading »
So Larry thinks I don’t know ANTS as well as I should but I’m getting there when it comes to members of OUR SPECIES. He “highly recommends” my sympathetic account of moderately socially conservative Darwinian or evolutionary psychologists, particularly Jonathan Haidt (who, . . . . Continue Reading »
Maybe the problem in the last election was Romney, or maybe we can attribute the elections results to other things. . . . . Continue Reading »
So I read in the thread the request that we postmodern conservatives develop an opinion on the view of Alan Jacobs on Wendell Berry on PLACE. I naturally thought he’d been endorsing Berry’s view, and I’d have to criticize Alan from a Christian point of view. And then we’d be . . . . Continue Reading »
Ben Domenech is one of the shrewder conservative writers out there. He supports a flat tax writing: The whole point of starting with the argument for a flat tax is to end up with a tax structure that looks more like Simpson-Bowles and less like the mess we have today . . . Of course Republicans . . . . Continue Reading »
Jordan Bloom at The American Conservative hips us to the surprising fact that there is going to be a film about the Copperheads, that is, about the Northern Democrat political movement that opposed continuing the Civil War, and especially once the Emancipation Proclamation had been issued. The . . . . Continue Reading »
And I’ve been sharing with the organizers of a big Percy conference that will occur next year in the now-legendary St. Francisville my fake-sociological efforts to distinguish Percy-ism from (Wendell) Berry-ism. We Percy-ites see both good and bad effects of the national and multinational . . . . Continue Reading »
So I just haven’t had time to post. But tonight in my mail I found two “issues” that you might want to explore. Here’s the first, as explored in the NYT . Should we change the names of the ten army bases named after Confederate generals? We could explore the merits of the . . . . Continue Reading »
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