Peter Lawler

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So there has been a lot of good email about recent posts, in addition, of course, to all the thinking going on in the threads. Here’s what Jean Yarbrough of Bowdoin, the distinguished author of pathbreaking books on President TJ and President TR, wrote: I read this post with great interest, as . . . . Continue Reading »

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There's something great—or wonderfully unnatural and distinctively human—about life as the joyless quest for joy. Continue Reading »

Well, not on purpose. . . . . Continue Reading »

1. So this week I have to pick the books, finally, for my fall seminar entitled TECHNOLOGY. I really need some new ideas on recent developments, beginning with BIG DATA. 2. So I’ve gotten several emails this morning on THE BATTLE OF GETTSBURG. I recommend to you Ralph Peters’ article . . . . Continue Reading »

Well, I’m sticking with my position that I wouldn’t leave town to see it. But I didn’t have to leave my house. It’s already “on demand.” I was rooting for it to be better than it was. It was insufferably overbearing, and the good and evil lead characters . . . . Continue Reading »

My time to offer a substantive post was used up by reading all the excellent threads that have popped up in the recent days. Thanks to Carl for finding some good stuff in COPPERHEAD. That shows we can be fair and try to be balanced. Because he can’t help but tell the truth that it’s not . . . . Continue Reading »

Not that there’s anything wrong with that . . . . . Continue Reading »

I actually think there are reasonable people on both sides of the same-sex marriage debate. Finally, the biggest thing wrong with Kennedy’s opinion is that its unhinged moralism—based as it is on a conception of dignity or personhood that’s has no real constitutional . . . . Continue Reading »