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MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — Last weekend, I ventured to my alma mater to attend the Center for Ethics and Culture’s tenth annual conference, The Summons of Freedom: Virtue, Sacrifice, and the Common Good. An intoxicating breath of fresh intellectual air, the conference featured invited speakers, inter alios, Russell Hittinger (Attended and amazed by.), Michael Novak [...]
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MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — Over at Nathancontrmundi, I’ve posted my first substantive bit of writing in some time, “Confessions of a Front-Porch Realist”, my reflections on the less-pleasant realities of localism in contemporary America. It is not, I hope, an accurate depiction of all of rural Middle America, but I fear that it aptly describes [...]
MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — I must confess something: I am a fraud. For all the paeans I offer to the idea of “community”, I have never read Nisbet’s The Quest for Community. Downright shameful, I know. (Other than a short essay or two, I’ve read nothing of Kirk other than The Conservative Mind, either; I [...]
On yesterday’s drive home I listened to Sean Hannity, as I often do. Hannity was upset, as he often is, about President Obama ”weakening” American defense - scrapping missile defense shields in Europe, not escalating troop levels fast enough in Afghanistan, ignoring an Iran on the verge of getting nukes - you know, not being “conservative.” “You’re a great American!” [...]
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I read this on the air this morning and thought it worth passing around. None of this will be earth shattering to most on the Alternative Right, but I thought of it on September 11, 2001 and still think of it every anniversary.
This is Pat Buchanan describing a hypothetical terrorist attack that could take place as [...]
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MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — First, apologies for the infrequency of my contributions. I suffer from a seemingly terminal case of poor time-management abilities, but I promise that I’m working on rectifying this. I hate to leave my favorite agitators without reason to engage me. With a few drafts saved and ideas running through my convoluted [...]
I’d not normally dedicate a post to nothing more than directing readers elsewhere, without, say, commenting on or otherwise engaging a particular post, but I’d like to draw y’all’s attention to Humane Pursuits, a fairly new stop on the Right-wing Virtual Super Highway operated by friends of a few friends. The contributors are, I think, [...]
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Mint-and-Corn Country, Indiana — I’m not entirely sure why, but while I was driving my grandfather to an appointment today, I started to think of an essay that I first encountered long ago, and to which I occasionally return, written by Peter Kreeft (I’m a fan of Kreeft, so I’ll forgive his being at BC [...]
In the years since I abandoned my status as a typical neoconservative chicken hawk and adopted Old Right non-interventionism, I’ve been somewhat uneasy with much of the movement’s rhetoric. Specifically, I often find much of the anti-war Right a little too reminiscent of the anti-war Left. That is, many anti-war conservatives and libertarians expend a [...]
(Cross-posted at The Other Right)
It’s probably a bad idea to get into the habit of linking as heavily to the Times as I have been in the last few week, but, I was really quite impressed by this weekend’s profile of David Cameron… Go take a peek:
Conservatives — or Tories, as they are also called — [...]