So I felt so guilty about Jason’s charge that I was somehow mocking or being nasty to Rod Dreher that I decided to repeat and add to what I’ve said before on crunchy analysis to at least get credit for think a lot about being a crunchy without actually being one. . . . . Continue Reading »
Musically, not that impressive, an instance of the Beatles’ rock-meets-music-hall mode, but winsome enough if you don’t listen to it often. It’s fun, and it knows it’s sing-song-y. Irony-hounds might even ask whether that hints at some kind of reversal being the true message. . . . . Continue Reading »
So I started to use an article by Rod Dreher to support my view that nonrelational personalism rather than progressivism is our distinctive issue these days. But I said too much silly stuff about the American and crunchy conservatives to get to it. . . . . Continue Reading »
Josh Barro wrote that “Social conservatives are more likely to signal openness to pro-middle class economic policies than the “hardheaded business types” who fund the party.: I think there is some truth to that, and I think that Barro’s next observation is interesting and . . . . Continue Reading »
Matthew Schmitz has a terrific post which discusses Mike Murphy’s suicide-for-the-Republican Party idea that the Republicans should abandon social conservatives and focus on hard headed economic conservatism. Murphy’s post has been beaten up by better writers than me so I’ll focus . . . . Continue Reading »
So I’ve gotten a good number of emails and FACEBOOK messages on my FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS post. There are some LIBERAL ones that find it offensive. I’m okay with that. There are some TV CRITICAL ONES that say I overrate the show. The teenagers on FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHT are too precious and . . . . Continue Reading »
“Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Romney Lost” . . . . Continue Reading »
Ramesh Ponnuru disagrees with the idea that Republican rape theoreticians Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock were a major cause on the Republican Party’s disastrous Senate outcome in which they lost 25 out of 33 Senate races. Ponnuru rightly points out that Republicans lots of different races . . . . Continue Reading »
Our friend as Tom Harmon is big on a CONSERVATIVE yet POSTMODERN response to the exchange in PUBLIC DISCOURSE . I’m glad, of course, to see the exhange, although it doesn’t cover new ground. PM’s attempt to be all civil theological about the Declaration depends on an . . . . Continue Reading »
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