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PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICAL SCIENCE
Here’s the table of contents for the forthcoming issue (Jan.-March.): ARTICLES Health Care and the Technological Project 1 Tom Merrill The Demise of Feminist Communitarianism 9 Jon A. Shields...
Patron Saints for Postmoderns by Chris. R. Armstrong
Patron Saints for Postmoderns: Ten from the Past Who Speak to Our Future by chris r. armstrong ivp, 249 pages, $16 How is a Christian to situate himself or...
David Brooks Goes Wobbly on Suburbs
“Whatever the reason,” writes Prof. Deneen , clearly sporting for another round of epic battle, “it’s good news indeed. Score 1 for FPR, zero for the PoMoCons.” But Brooks’...
Splitting Lincolnian Hairs
I’ve had the opportunity recently to do some extra-careful thinking about Lincoln, the founding, and the Union. I’m pretty sure I’ve decided that many nettlesome and momentous theoretical issues...
Joe Escalante on Restoring Faith
Let’s take the solemn dress code away from the Goths, the Rosaries away from the gangs, the blood & death fixation away from the scene-kids, the art away from...
“Chosen, But Not Special”
I find this Michael Chabon op-ed , written in the wake of Israel’s interception of the Gaza flotilla, to be remarkable, and not in a good way. A few...
Proto-Pomocon
Is Noah Millman flirting with postmodern conservatism ? I report, you decide.
Libertarians Against Nudging
Yes, Virginia. Will Wilkinson does the world a service and gives Glen Whitman plenty of space to air his deep concerns with nudgetarianism. At a recent panel discussing prospects...
The Rustic Belt
I’m up at Bloggingheads talking American “rustics” with Jim Pinkerton — folks I sometimes refer to, in a spirit akin to Hunter Thompson’s, as “rubes.” One big question is...
Ricochet
And now, a bit of news I’m excited to share: I’ve signed on as Managing Editor at Ricochet, a new online political forum coming your way in a matter...
Getting Me Wrong
Russell Arben Fox is unhappy : Poulos’s ridiculous, Tea-Partier rhetoric about a bill that has been sent back and forth through the legislative wringer more times over the past...
Berry Revisited
Apropos of my remarks below , a reader writes: It seems to me that you’re taking his quote about the politicization out of context, first of all. He’s downright...
Our Fair Share of Whirlwind
I was going to post something on the latest dreadful new census commercial, but this will serve us all pretty nicely.
Obama’s Legal Vision
And now, my conclusion about where Obamacare falls into the law-versus-politics schema I mentioned, below, in the context of marriage and divorce. There was one real highlight and moment...
Law and Marriage
Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand an intimate ‘relationship’ involving (ideally) two successful careerists in the same bed, and on...