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Life Without Meaning
A new CATO Institute survey looks into the views of Americans on economic questions. It contains a section on the kind of people who say they find meaning in their lives. These graphs tell the story:...
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Will Arbery’s Heroes
Decades from now, if social historians wonder what it was like to be an American conservative in this tumultuous era, they will consult Will Arbery’s breathtaking new play Heroes Of The Fourth Turning...
View ArticleChina’s Present, America’s Future
After reading the John Lanchester review of two new books on China’s surveillance totalitarianism (I wrote about the Lanchester book here, in connection with the NBA scandal), I bought one of the...
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Our Coming War Of Religion
I think I’ve found something new to say about French-Ahmari. But first, a couple of things. Reader Matt in VA, a stalwart Trump backer who really does hate with the hate of a thousand million suns what...
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Desktop Flannery O’Connor
Artist Kevin Lindholm, who teaches art at Sequitur Classical Academy, has added a Flannery O’Connor bust to his catalog of busts you can have 3D printed to order. Here’s the complete list. It includes...
View ArticleThe Meaning Of Liquid Modernity
One of the most useful concepts for understanding the world today is the late Marxist sociologist Zygmunt Bauman’s brainchild “liquid modernity.” I used it in The Benedict Option, and continue to find...
View ArticleTen Years, 2010-2020
I answered one of those Twitter things going around: Buried sister and father Moved home to Louisiana Wrote 3 books; collaborated on 4th; made deal for 5th Made NYT bestseller list 2x Was subject of...
View ArticleAmong The Counter-Revolutionaries
Sir Roger Scruton was a genuine hero of the anti-communist resistance in Central Europe. In the 1980s, he would travel to Czechoslovakia and Poland, helping set up underground universities, where free...
View ArticleBoomers Partied — Xers Got The Hangover
Some friends of mine are going through a very hard time right now. A close relative, a college student, recently took LSD, perhaps with a few of his buddies (this is unclear), and, in a psychedelic...
View ArticleBill Barr’s Blindness — And Our Own
Last month, when Attorney General Bill Barr gave a speech at Notre Dame about religious liberty, I praised him for his take on the importance of religion to our Constitutional order, and for pointing...
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