Greetings from suburban Amsterdam, where it is chilly and grey and rainy, and where I’m  working on my next TAC story, due any minute now. Blogging will therefore be light to nonexistent until I get this finished later tonight. It’s about conservatism and the underappreciated power of story — which is to say, it’s really about how culture precedes politics. Here’s a quote from Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue that I found appropriate; Macintyre says that man is

… essentially a story-telling animal. He is not essentially, but becomes through his history, a teller of stories that aspire to truth. But the key question for men is not about their own authorship; I can only answer the question ‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question ‘Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?’

Of what story or stories do you find yourself a part? Which story or stories do most people around you find themselves a part, but that you are not? Does this matter? How?