Peter Lawler

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1. I’m sad I was out of commission last Thursday and Friday and so didn’t have a chance to say a sad farewell to NO LEFT TURNS. In the name of gender diversity and to up our pay grade a bit, I invite the lovely and legendary KATE to join us on these pages as an actual blogger. 2. So . . . . Continue Reading »

Here’s Mitt actually defending his stand on marriage: “I believe that marriage has been defined the same way for literally thousands of years by virtually every civilization in history and that marriage is by its definition a relationship between a man and woman and if two people of the . . . . Continue Reading »

1. Wendell Berry’s example of a man who really knows his place in the Jefferson lecture is the farmer whose horizon doesn’t extend beyond the field behind his barn. 2. That doesn’t apply to Berry himself, but he has hung around his small-town part of Kentucky most of his life. 3. . . . . Continue Reading »

One disadvantage to living in the sticks not emphasized by the Porchers is that it deprives the blogger of being able to provide cutting-edge analysis of new films. So I’m ashamed to admit I haven’t seen Whit Stillman’s DAMSELS IN DISTRESS yet. That doesn’t prevent me from . . . . Continue Reading »

Our president has reasonably caculated he can’t afford to look less “evolved” than what now appears to be a majority of Americans on the so-called “last civil rights issue.” Nobody can afford to look less evolved than VP Biden. But most troubling was Romney’s . . . . Continue Reading »

Out of pure laziness, I turn to the emailbox for post fodder: I’m not angling for a post here, I just really want your thoughts on this stuff. You know how I’m always belaboring the point that an undifferentiated national ballot doesn’t elect a president, 50 individual states do? . . . . Continue Reading »

Peter Berkowitz, as Carl numerically suggests below, has written an article bemoaning the fact that most American liberal-artsy grads have never read THE FEDERALIST. Well, we can doubt that’s the fault of anyone who reads this blog. I’ve taught some of the key papers (close to—but . . . . Continue Reading »

So says Mr. Rod Dreher, the crunchiest conservative in St. Francisville, LA. . . . . Continue Reading »

BIG THOUGHTS HERE . They, of course, are far from really serious and are very much indebted to Carl’s world-class post. . . . . Continue Reading »