ConservatismThe Practical and the Watered-downBefore the site is glutted with debate commentary, a word on Rod Dreher’s latest C11 |
PoliticsDoes Veneration Really Wither on the Pavements?“All country people hate each other,” wrote William Hazlitt. “There is nothing good to |
Culture
George Cukor’s “The Women”: Remarry, remake, repeatNot that I need one, but the release of Diane English’s remake of The Women is a good |
Foreign PolicyThe ICC should leave Georgia aloneEarly yesterday morning, International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo |
EducationNew higher ed bill sure to make matters worse; Congress delightedOne provision of Congress’s newest higher education bill requires that colleges and |
ZeitgeistWhy I don’t believe in Harvey DentHalfway through my sophomore year of high school I was overwhelmed by an impulse to |
ZeitgeistFreedom from shame?My Southern suspicion that New England is full of crazy people gained another exhibit |
ImmigrationImmigration, Localism, and Next Best ThingsWhether due to the dramatic failure of last year’s attempt at comprehensive reform or |
“Tweed for Weed” finds disappointment in the NetherlandsThose who look to the Netherlands as the world’s drug policy bellwether got some |
John Cusack’s WAR, INC.: A satire, but of what?John Cusack wants to be very clear: he doesn’t object to all wars, only this war. |
Douthat: Rhymes with Oakeshott?Bramwell’s First Law continues to hold true, and the latest person to hold forth on the |
They make a desert and call it PoundburyEven if you don’t know the name Leon Krier, you may already know his work. He had a |
Zeitgeist
It’s All About HerThe question of whether or not to see “Sex and the City” is easy to answer: if you |
Is America ready for a cigarette smoking president?I am not on principle opposed to health. Some of my best friends are healthy. Still, |
What do we mean when we say that “marriage is about children?”No matter what changes the state of California wreaks in the coming months, |
Who needs a college education?There’s a growing consensus that too many people are walking around with bachelor’s |
A bioethical thought experiment for Steven PinkerImagine a pair of people, the first of whom is, by any standard you could want to pick, |
Conservative Queer Theorists Against Gay Marriage: Bad Acronym, Good IdeaIn the seventies, when the activist Left was calling marriage a form of soft slavery |
The “fertility film”: a conservative trend in Hollywood?There was a moment in the tumultuous wake of Juno, Waitress, and Knocked Up when it |
The sad state of American feminism: a great Mother’s Day gift!Hillary Clinton’s campaign is in a tailspin; Phyllis Schlafly is getting an honorary |
The UN gets “disability rights” wrongWhen conservatives impute relativism to their opponents, it is usually a straw man. An |
Forty Years Later, Undoing ‘68The rush to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of 1968 (good round-ups here and here) |
Higher education’s crisis of confidenceWilliam Deresiewicz has called literary criticism ?a profession that is losing its will |