Conservatism

The Practical and the Watered-down

Before the site is glutted with debate commentary, a word on Rod Dreher’s latest C11

Politics

Does 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, repeat

George Cukor’s “The Women”: Remarry, remake, repeat

Not that I need one, but the release of Diane English’s remake of The Women is a good

Foreign Policy

The ICC should leave Georgia alone

Early yesterday morning, International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo

Education

New higher ed bill sure to make matters worse; Congress delighted

One provision of Congress’s newest higher education bill requires that colleges and

Zeitgeist

Why I don’t believe in Harvey Dent

Halfway through my sophomore year of high school I was overwhelmed by an impulse to

Zeitgeist

Freedom from shame?

My Southern suspicion that New England is full of crazy people gained another exhibit

Immigration

Immigration, Localism, and Next Best Things

Whether due to the dramatic failure of last year’s attempt at comprehensive reform or

“Tweed for Weed” finds disappointment in the Netherlands

Those 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 Poundbury

Even if you don’t know the name Leon Krier, you may already know his work.  He had a

Zeitgeist

It’s All About Her

It’s All About Her

The 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 Pinker

Imagine 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 Idea

In 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” wrong

When conservatives impute relativism to their opponents, it is usually a straw man.  An

Forty Years Later, Undoing ‘68

The rush to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of 1968 (good round-ups here and here)

Higher education’s crisis of confidence

William Deresiewicz has called literary criticism ?a profession that is losing its will