The Blog RIP?
by Peter LawlerSo the blog is dead, says THE NEW REPUBLIC , ANDREW SULLIVAN, etc. Spontaneous emanations have moved mainly, of course, to TWITTER. And so many blogs are now really magazines or daily journals or whatever—see LAW AND LIBERTY, THE IMAGINATIVE CONSERVATIVE, MINDING THE CAMPUS, PHILANTHROPY . . . . Continue Reading »
Cary Grant Manliness, LSD, and the Futility of AMC Nostalgia
by Carl ScottVia Instapundit and Ed Driscoll , attention is paid to a post “Why Cary Grant Is Mandatory for the Manosphere” by an econ blogger who calls himself “Captain Capitalism” ( groan ), a post basically about how imitating Cary Grant will help you win the women. The only really . . . . Continue Reading »
Congratulations to YUVAL LEVIN
by Peter Lawler. . . for winning the BRADLEY PRIZE. Someone is to be praised for giving the award to someone who’s actually up and coming, and to someone who thinks outside (in some ways) the Bradley box. You would think the various potential Republican candidates would be lined up around the block hoping . . . . Continue Reading »
The New PPS Arrives: Schall and a Lot More
by Peter LawlerThe April-June edition of America’s leading journal of political science—PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICAL SCIENCE—is out. There’s a symposium on the retirement of Father James Schall (who was America’s best teacher of political science) and articles on Roberto . . . . Continue Reading »
A Slice of Egyptian Life
by Carl ScottWe had a large number of women with us of various ages, which angered the young men who like to engage in confrontation. They addressed themselves to the women, saying: “What brought you here today? The Brotherhood has bad intentions and we don’t want to be preoccupied with you.” . . . . Continue Reading »
Texting? Natural. Twittering? EVIL!
by Carl ScottThat’s what you get when you combine John McWhorter’s fine mini-lecture on texting-talk as an “emergent complexity” of human linguistic evolution, or more helpfully, as “fingered speech,” with Matt Labash’s deliciously long TWS essay on why twitter, and the . . . . Continue Reading »
“Cultural Transmission”
by Peter LawlerSome postmodern yet conservative thoughts by ME here , with a link to a good article by our friend Sam Goldman. . . . . Continue Reading »
Mary Eberstadt and ME on the Implosion of the Welfare State
by Peter LawlerSo Mary reminds us of the seemingly bad news that the demographic “crisis” has made welfare states worldwide unsustainable. The good news, in her opinion, is that the welfare state has the main cause of the erosion of proper responsibility for and dependence on the family. Maybe . . . . Continue Reading »
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