Peter Lawler

So I’ve gotten a lot of comments on my previous post and the fine article by John Miller on Harry Jaffa. One, from a prominent “traditional conservative” that said I was generous to Jaffa and would be attacked by his students as a result. I didn’t mean to be either generous . . . . Continue Reading »

So our friend Mickey Craig has sent me a link to John J. Miller’s nice overview of the life and thought of Harry Jaffa. The link is important, because it allows you to read the article without the cost of subscribing to THE NATIONAL REVIEW. Miller’s key claim: “Modern . . . . Continue Reading »

I don’t have time to discuss Yuval’s Bradley talk right now. Let me just say it’s a classy, forthright, and personal effort to strike the balance between gratitude and change we can believe in. Nothing’s more important than the perpetuation of our personal institutions . . . . Continue Reading »

ethical and political thoughts here . . . . . Continue Reading »

It’s, of course, easy to find everywhere on the web a kind of sophisticated fascination with BIG DATA. The idea of BIG DATA has become allegedly DISRUPTIVE and TRANSFORMATIVE scientism. Again, I’m too lazy to link: But I’ve even read a little article suggesting that colleges use . . . . Continue Reading »

by having it address the serious issue . . . . Continue Reading »

So our threader with the erudite “pomoncon name” of Pseudoplotinus gives us a plausible intrpretation of recent events, scandals, and such: So here’s a take I haven’t heard yet. This scandal broke weeks after the President declared the War on Terror over. In other words we are . . . . Continue Reading »

I don’t have time to do any linking, but just let me mention some issues that have arisen through my morning’s reading. The first is techno-surveillance and soft despotism—see Ross Douthat. It’s hard to know whether the main concern here is the government or the . . . . Continue Reading »

standard weekly thoughts here. . . . . Continue Reading »

MERITOCRATIC THOUGHTS HERE . . . . Continue Reading »