Carl Scott

All from Mr. Postmodern Conservative himself, of course, over at Ricochet. . . . . Continue Reading »

Here’s the basic schema I laid out in #26 : 1) quasi-modernity –approximately 1776 to 1918 2) intermediate modernity –approximately 1919 to 1965 3) full modernity –approximately 1966 to the present. Now, for some flesh upon these analytic bones. Everyone knows WWI and the 20s . . . . Continue Reading »

It’s scary, fun, and one that everyone from adults to preteens can enjoy.  Our Peter said some insightful things about it here. . . . . Continue Reading »

Robert Cheeks suggests in his comment on my last Songbook post that if there aren’t any, there’s really no point in me saying that Rock is ambivalent about or even resistant to modernity. He has a point. So, here are two possible candidates. The first is the most obvious choice, the . . . . Continue Reading »

The Songbook inevitably has to analyze modernity, precisely because it is interested more in what rock reveals about our overall sociological and spiritual situation than it is in rock itself.  So what follows are two organizing posts concerning this.  Here, I’ll quickly lay out my . . . . Continue Reading »

But actually, it is President Obama’s words on the subject that are unacceptable, and utterly so. Unless they are decoys or time-buyers as he plots a strike or conveys serious threats to strike through back-channels. . . . . Continue Reading »

Norwood was Charles Portis’s first novel, published in 1966, followed a couple years later by True Grit . Both novels are infused with Portis’s deadpan humor, but only the first is typically represented as a “comic novel.” A novel in which the main character rescues Joann the . . . . Continue Reading »

The great Walter Russell Mead posted yesterday an atypically predictable essay, one that is Against the Boomers . In his comments, I insist that the problem is the Liberal-Boomers, not the generation generally. As a society we owe everything to the many sane boomers, and as a conservative . . . . Continue Reading »

As Thanksgiving approaches, many of you will be Homeward Bound and back again, on turnpikes or through airports, and you are starting to ask that key question: what recorded books ought I to obtain for the journey? Well, for the certifiably insane geniuses and Christian masochists, who can navigate . . . . Continue Reading »

Jeffrey Polet kicks back on his rocker, and proceeds to shred a whiny-but-poignant-sounding Atlantic article, about motherhood refused and about the true consequences of the sexual revolution denied, to pieces. In a gentlemanly way, of course. Not to be missed. . . . . Continue Reading »