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• Reillyists Unite!

  ¶ Austin Bramwell wants me to know that he has awakened me from a dogmatic slumber, and this only to inform me that I am advocating a distorting ideology. Readers might forgive me if I confess that foregoing the pleasures of… More »

• Austin Bramwell Responds

  ¶ Austin Bramwell has taken spirited exception to my critique of his recent essay “Good-Bye to All That” (which is now available on-line.) I shall, of course, have a few words to say in reply as weather, soul-saving duties, and the… More »

• Another Conservative Taxonomy

  ¶ The latest American Conservative will be of interest to many conservatives, especially following the woodshed experience of the GOP last Tuesday. Of particular note will be the long broadside against conservatism by former National Review trustee Austin Bramwell. Bramwell, you… More »

• A Jape In Wolfe’s Clothing?

  ¶ Alan Wolfe, writing in The New Republic about David Kuo’s embarrasing book Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction: If theocracy is not a looming danger to our democracy, bathos might be. For every evangelical leader spewing hate, there… More »

• You say Liturgy, I say Lechery

  ¶ Here is some noteworthy flotsam. Maggie Gallagher rebukes Rod Dreher and his crunchy legions for being big fakers: We have lots of choices in our society but we don’t have the choice to be genuinely traditional, as far as I… More »

• Stegall Against Walmart and Cheap Soup

  ¶ No doubt to the annoy of the Con-Crunchy crowd, the demise of TNP leaves Mr. Stegall (and others) free to carry on their subversive insidiousness more freely in other fields. Stegall appears again in the newspaper of the much maligned… More »

• An Elegy for Me

  ¶ How nice, a poem for me. Thank you, David!… More »

• Islamicized Mass in Milwaukee and the Latest Spengler

  ¶ Archbishop Dolan’s church recently held a “concert mass” – Karl Jenkins’ “The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace.” A news report says “The theme suggests ‘the armed man must be feared’ and that people must seek peace across cultures.” This… More »

• If You’re Intent on Joining the Chattering Classes, At Least Try to Chatter Better

  ¶ Once in a while the Evangelical publication, Books & Culture, prints something that is unabashedly immersed in movement politics. When that happens, it is, to my recollection, always motivated by a more or less authentically conservative impulse against liberalizing theology… More »

• Make this Man a Cardinal

  ¶ George Weigel, for this alone, should be given a red hat and charge over this redemptive institution he has proposed: the Index Canticorum Prohibitorum. Anyone caught inflicting the vile strains on the list would be subjected to the bastinado. In… More »

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