Peter Lawler

And I’ve been sharing with the organizers of a big Percy conference that will occur next year in the now-legendary St. Francisville my fake-sociological efforts to distinguish Percy-ism from (Wendell) Berry-ism. We Percy-ites see both good and bad effects of the national and multinational . . . . Continue Reading »

So I just haven’t had time to post. But tonight in my mail I found two “issues” that you might want to explore. Here’s the first, as explored in the NYT . Should we change the names of the ten army bases named after Confederate generals? We could explore the merits of the . . . . Continue Reading »

BIG THOUGHTS FINALLY HERE (Link fixed, thanks Sara) . . . . Continue Reading »

BIG THOUGHTS HERE . . . . Continue Reading »

BIG THOUGHTS HERE . . . . Continue Reading »

As I’ve already suggested, the properly conservative standard for thinking about change is who we are as personal and relational beings. Someone might say that standard is particularly Christian. Certainly, many Christians understand each of us to have been created in the image of the personal . . . . Continue Reading »

PROUD THOUGHTS HERE . . . . Continue Reading »

BIG THOUGHTS HERE . . . . Continue Reading »

It’s tough to comment on the various interconnected scandals. The main reason is it’s so tough to keep up. The MSM media experts are having the same problem: Still, very few Democrats are in complete denial about how bad this might be. If I were to combine several little lectures I . . . . Continue Reading »

The truth of the matter is that, generally speaking, things are typically getting better and worse. We conservatives have a standard based in human nature or the whole human person—the free and relational being—by which we can evaluate political, moral, and technological change. Our . . . . Continue Reading »