Posted on February 9th, 2012 by Matthew Feeney
Yesterday I attended a debate hosted by the American Enterprise Institute and the America’s Future Foundation with the timely named motion, “Are Libertarians Part of the Conservative Movement?” Speaking for the case that libertarianism is a distinct political philosophy from conservatism was Matt Welch, editor in chief at Reason. Speaking for the case that libertarians [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Culture, Economics, libertarianism, Politics
Posted on February 7th, 2012 by Jordan Bloom
One of the stupidest lines of commentary following Obama’s opposition SOPA and PIPA was that, while it showed how in-touch he was with the generation raised on free content, it wasn’t going to play well among the media industry scions who fund the Democratic Party. The assumption behind this kind of thinking is that Hollywood [...]
Filed under: Culture, Technology
Posted on February 6th, 2012 by Daniel McCarthy
Tuesday marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’s birth. Does the author of Hard Times still matter amid our own 21st century hardships? Theodore Dalrymple argues in TAC that he very much does.
Filed under: Culture
Posted on February 4th, 2012 by Clark Stooksbury
So Rod’s clarifying moment is muddy once more. For all the talk about how the Komen Foundation was “bullied” by the left, the episode resembles the Netflix/Qwikster debacle of last year; especially since Komen recently employed (via Memeorandum) Ari Fleischer who “drilled prospective candidates [for a PR position] during their interviews on how they would [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Culture
Posted on January 30th, 2012 by Daniel McCarthy
Brad Birzer has a superb series running at CatholicVote.org, “Bearers of the Word,” in which he interviews such thinkers and artists such as Gerald Russello, Jef Murray, and (coming soon) Mike Church. He was kind, and reckless, enough to interview me for the most recent installment, which can be found here. I discuss the seemingly [...]
Filed under: Culture, Politics, Religion
Posted on January 13th, 2012 by Jordan Bloom
Perhaps out of fear of a grassroots insurrection, six conservative senators sent a letter to Harry Reid today expressing a newfound concern about the PROTECT IP Act. Via Lachlan Markay at The Foundry: Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), John Cornyn (R-TX), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Mike Lee (R-UT), and Tom Coburn (R-OK), sent a [...]
Filed under: Culture, Politics, Technology, Uncategorized
Posted on January 12th, 2012 by Jordan Bloom
On Tuesday Judge Randy Bellows of the Fairfax Circuit Court ruled against seven breakaway Anglican parishes in Virginia, finding that if their congregations wish to break away from the Episcopal Church in the USA, the mainstream branch of the Anglican communion in America, they have to return their church property to the diocese. If the [...]
Filed under: Culture, Religion
Posted on January 9th, 2012 by Matthew Feeney
Jordan Michael Smith examines the recent biography of the Cold War diplomat George Kennan, George F. Kennan: An American Life, which Smith describes as “…the best book yet written on the most important American foreign-policy thinker-practitioner of the 20th century.” John Lewis Gaddis chronicles Kennan’s long and influential career as one of this country’s most [...]
Filed under: Art, Culture
Posted on January 4th, 2012 by Jordan Bloom
Daniel Flynn expounds on Ray Bradbury’s retrofuturism and outcast persona in an article posted today. A science fiction writer that railed against technology’s dehumanizing effects, an intellectual dismissed by the literary elite as the “poet of the pulps,” and a futurist whose utopia was small-town life circa 1920, Bradbury’s life was a mess of contradictions [...]
Filed under: Books, Culture
Posted on December 26th, 2011 by Patrick J. Buchanan
Half a century ago, American children were schooled in Aesop’s fables. Among the more famous of these were “The Fox and the Grapes” and “The Tortoise and the Hare.” Particularly appropriate this Christmas season, and every Christmas lately, is Aesop’s fable of “The Dog in the Manger.” The tale is about a dog who decides [...]
Filed under: Culture, Religion
