ConservatismThe Practical and the Watered-downSeptember 27, 2008 Before the site is glutted with debate commentary, a word on Rod Dreher’s |
PoliticsDoes Veneration Really Wither on the Pavements?September 08, 2008 “All country people hate each other,” wrote William Hazlitt. “There is nothing |
Culture
George Cukor’s “The Women”: Remarry, remake, repeatAugust 28, 2008 Not that I need one, but the release of Diane English’s remake of The Women is |
Foreign PolicyThe ICC should leave Georgia aloneAugust 21, 2008 Early yesterday morning, International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno |
EducationNew higher ed bill sure to make matters worse; Congress delightedAugust 01, 2008 One provision of Congress’s newest higher education bill requires that colleges |
ZeitgeistWhy I don’t believe in Harvey DentJuly 27, 2008 Halfway through my sophomore year of high school I was overwhelmed by an |
ZeitgeistFreedom from shame?July 12, 2008 My Southern suspicion that New England is full of crazy people gained another |
ImmigrationImmigration, Localism, and Next Best ThingsJuly 02, 2008 Whether due to the dramatic failure of last year’s attempt at comprehensive |
“Tweed for Weed” finds disappointment in the NetherlandsJune 23, 2008 Those who look to the Netherlands as the world’s drug policy bellwether got |
John Cusack’s WAR, INC.: A satire, but of what?June 20, 2008 John Cusack wants to be very clear: he doesn’t object to all wars, only this |
Douthat: Rhymes with Oakeshott?June 12, 2008 Bramwell’s First Law continues to hold true, and the latest person to hold |
They make a desert and call it PoundburyJune 10, 2008 Even if you don’t know the name Leon Krier, you may already know his work. He |
Zeitgeist
It’s All About HerJune 05, 2008 The question of whether or not to see “Sex and the City” is easy to answer: |
Is America ready for a cigarette smoking president?May 29, 2008 I am not on principle opposed to health. Some of my best friends are healthy. |
What do we mean when we say that “marriage is about children?”May 26, 2008 No matter what changes the state of California wreaks in the coming months, |
Who needs a college education?May 23, 2008 There’s a growing consensus that too many people are walking around with |
A bioethical thought experiment for Steven PinkerMay 17, 2008 Imagine a pair of people, the first of whom is, by any standard you could want |
Conservative Queer Theorists Against Gay Marriage: Bad Acronym, Good IdeaMay 17, 2008 In the seventies, when the activist Left was calling marriage a form of soft |
The “fertility film”: a conservative trend in Hollywood?May 16, 2008 There was a moment in the tumultuous wake of Juno, Waitress, and Knocked Up |
The sad state of American feminism: a great Mother’s Day gift!May 11, 2008 Hillary Clinton’s campaign is in a tailspin; Phyllis Schlafly is getting an |
The UN gets “disability rights” wrongMay 05, 2008 When conservatives impute relativism to their opponents, it is usually a straw |
Forty Years Later, Undoing ‘68May 01, 2008 The rush to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of 1968 (good round-ups here and |
Higher education’s crisis of confidenceApril 29, 2008 William Deresiewicz has called literary criticism ?a profession that is losing |