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October 2018

October 29, 2018

From “The Leopard” to “Sword of Honour” part two: White Guard & The Radetzky March

[my apologies, taken down as I work on it for publication]

May 2018

May 06, 2018

You Can’t Always Get What You Want: Three Films About the Aftermath of the Sixties

I recently watched The Big Chill and Return of the Secaucus 7 one after the...

April 2018

April 16, 2018

“The Naked Emperors”: I’m at the University Bookman

reviewing a recent book on the German 1890s through the rise of the Nazis: Martin...

November 2016

November 18, 2016

“Order, Chaos, Peace”: I review a biography of an architect of conservatism

for The American Conservative: Back when I was involved in the late-’90s conservative student movement...

September 2016

September 12, 2016

“Free to Choose, Revisited”: David Lapp

on Yuval Levin: Yuval Levin believes that neither hyperindividualism nor centralization can help financially struggling...

August 2016

August 31, 2016

“The Right to Look Your Judge in the Eye”: I’m at AmCon

w/the theology of the body of the defendant: Last month a Michigan appeals court considered...

August 22, 2016

For There’s Nothing Original in Me/Except Original Sin: A Birthday Book Meme

I really enjoyed Melinda Selmys's list of the twenty books that have shaped her. It's...

July 2016

July 25, 2016

I Revisit Saul Bellow’s “Ravelstein,” A 2000 Novel About Love and Tenderness–And the Coming Crackup of the GOP

here you go: Ravelstein, Saul Bellow’s roman à clef about the last years of philosopher-provocateur...

July 11, 2016

From Saul Bellow, “Ravelstein”

Obviously, my purpose in mentioning the Crillon's valet service was to comfort Abe for spilling...

July 06, 2016

I Don’t Believe in Modern Love (But I Do Love “Modern Manners”)

Recently revisited Modern Manners: An Etiquette Guide for Rude People, my favorite PJ O'Rourke. I...

June 2016

June 09, 2016

Laughing for No Reason: Some short movie notes

Under the Shadow: Iranian horror set during the Iran-Iraq War. The movie opens with Shideh...

May 2016

May 04, 2016

“The Reactionary Mind”: Ross Douthat Gives Me an Excuse

to push you toward the late virago Florence King (I'd start here) and also to...

February 2016

February 27, 2016

“A Paleocon, An Otherkin, And a Saint Walk into a Bar”: Kate Havard

reviews my novel--and gets off some great lines of her own in the process: Eve...

October 2015

October 10, 2015

Why the Long Face? I Watch “BoJack Horseman”

for AmCon. This piece could have been twice the length--I have a lot of feelings...

September 2015

September 18, 2015

“Obedience School”: Brian Dewan’s Utter Brilliance

a window into my id? via Simone R, back in 1993. Oh those bygone days!

March 2015

March 02, 2015

“Public Policy’s Absent Aesthetics”: I’m at AmCon

rantin': ...What leapt out to me was the absence of the aesthetic side of smoking...

January 2015

January 16, 2015

“Sociology as Class War”: I’m at AmCon

asking why progressives keep greasing the camel: I just finished Andrew Cherlin’s new book, Labor’s...

November 2014

November 23, 2014

“The Prize of the Defeated”: Matthew Walther on Don Colacho

click: Nicolás Gómez-Dávila’s name is not one to conjure with on these shores or, probably,...

November 07, 2014

“Discipline Is Not So Much a Social Necessity as an Aesthetic Obligation”

Any article bringing more attention to Don Colacho is an article I want you to...

October 2014

October 05, 2014

Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: A “Gay and Catholic” DVD Extra

This is the post about "possibilities for publicly honoring nonmarital sacrificial love," and there are...

August 2014

August 27, 2014

“Modernity as an Overlearning of Christianity”: Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

good food for thought all the way through: ...Heresy therefore always poses a tricky double...

August 15, 2014

From Peter de Vries, “The Tents of Wickedness”

The task of rearing a child must have taught her a lot. Taught her that...

June 2014

June 12, 2014

Painting the Town Red: “The Exiles,” A Masterpiece of Lost L.A.

Kent MacKenzie's The Exiles played exactly once, at the 1961 Venice Film Festival, and then...

February 2014

February 12, 2014

Addiction and the Politics (and Poetics) of Personal Responsibility: me at AmCon

a listicle, and for some reason I saved the best stuff for the end, so...

December 2013

December 10, 2013

“18th Century Fox”: Helen Rittelmeyer Is Hilarious

in AmSpec, on Burke-era popular conservatism: TWO THINGS ALL conservatives love are narratives of decline...

September 2013

September 21, 2013

Francis’s Conservatism (Uh, Sort Of)

I finally had the chance to read that really fascinating interview with the Pope. And...

August 2013

August 22, 2013

“In the Hour of Chaos”: I review Charles Johnson’s short stories

at AmCon: Somebody–I hope a commenter will remind me who it was–has suggested that the...

March 2013

March 28, 2013

#lifehacks

Undermine an authority, slowly ease away from the traditions it backstopped, lament the breakdown of...

March 11, 2013

“The Party of Prison Reform”: The Weekly Standard

Michael Hough—a second-term Republican state legislator from Frederick County, Md.—is about as conservative as blue-state...

November 2012

November 20, 2012

Same wing… better gremlins

Lists of conservatives or other right-wingers whom you should know: David Brooks, a reader of...