Carl Scott

I’m glad so many of you enjoyed the post on Joan Baez . There’s plenty more to say about the folk music movement and Joan, but I’m using her to springboard forward into an analysis of 60s rock. The main point of the Baez post was that the folkies were able at their best to bring a . . . . Continue Reading »

Or, The Conservative Case for Decreasing the Two-Thirds and Three-Fourths Requirements for Amendment In 1914, arch-progressive Herbert Croly founded The New Republic magazine and published his second book, Progressive Democracy. A rich (if at times annoyingly abstract) text, one of its more . . . . Continue Reading »

Russel Arben Fox provides a first-class and link-rich overview of Elshtain’s career over at Front Porch Republic . He reminds me of much that I learned from her. Like Fox, I think a highlight of her career was a number of essays and reviews she wrote for The New Republic in the 1990s. Unlike . . . . Continue Reading »

Probably most pomocon readers know about this special place, but it’s good to be reminded. Now if I started to praise, and talk about my time at, St. John’s, the post would be a very long one indeed. But today there’s some praise from Roger Kimball I can send you to, and as it it . . . . Continue Reading »

Back to the Songbook—I can’t exactly explain why it has had to be dormant awhile. To understand Rock, I have argued, you have to wrestle with the 60s. This post is an attempt to capture perhaps that era’s most intoxicating moment, the early folkie and folk-rock one of expectation, . . . . Continue Reading »

A facebook acquaintance of mine, not an aggressive type at all, posted pictures of himself “open-carrying.” Here is my brief little plea I sent to him against doing so. I am a firm supporter of 2nd amendment rights. The Heller decision was correct. I also support concealed-carry laws. . . . . Continue Reading »

My policy on the Egypt debate is to be charitable, assuming that no-one has a full handle on things. For example, when a commenter recommended a Spengler column that savaged the Reuel Marc Gerecht essay I had partially recommended , I was pretty repelled, even though I had rejected Gerecht’s . . . . Continue Reading »

Should Republicans seek to pass a continuing resolution to defund Obamacare? Senator Ted Cruz thinks so. Punditor Charles Krauthammer thinks not. Me, I really want to join Cruz’s call to battle, but I just don’t see how you ever get a veto-proof majority to do this, and in the midst of . . . . Continue Reading »

Allan Carlson at Imaginative Conservative reviews a 2009 book by historian Alan Pertigny, The Permissive Society: America, 1941-1965 . The title pretty much says it! Pertigny argues that the sexual revolution, and many related trends, were already well underway prior to the advent of the Pill and . . . . Continue Reading »

Continuing my reflections on the coup, prompted by Reuel Marc Gerecht’s essay (linked below). Perhaps his key sentence was this one: As long as the religious are more numerous, political parties that explicitly claim the faith will have an advantage over the secular, intellectually . . . . Continue Reading »