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featuredIt is curious how certain words accumulate a nimbus of positive associations while others, semantically just as innocuous, wind up shouldering a portfolio of bad feelings… Read More
Roger’s
Oeuvre
For art’s sake
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Modern art stopped challenging convention long ago. Now it challenges only common sense—and rewards the people willing to applaud the loudest absurdities. Read More
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Although the Victorian Classicist Jane Ellen Harrison has now pretty much faded into that limbo populated by authors whose work is occasionally cited but not much discussed or read, it… Read More
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Kitsch is more than bad art; it’s a flight from freedom to servitude. Read More
INSTITUTED AMONG MEn
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David Axelrod, Barack Hussein Obama’s chief strategist, was clearly worried about Donald Trump’s prime time speech about election integrity last night. Hyperventilating on X Tuesday, he warned that “If @POTUS really trots… Read More
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In the extensive coverage of this year’s July 4 celebrations in Washington, DC, it was often mentioned that 850,000 fireworks were detonated in the course of the evening. In fact,… Read More
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The philosopher David Hume warned us not to mistake “constant conjunction” for causation. It’s good advice, though it is not the sort of universal disturbance in the force that some… Read More
LOCUS CLASSICUS
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Conservatism is strongest when it rejects despair, embraces reality with confidence, and defends the permanent things with good humor. Read More
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Western civilization survives only if each generation rejects egalitarian vandalism and relearns its duty to preserve, cultivate, and pass on greatness. Read More
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On George Washington’s Farewell Address of 1796. Read More
The Zeitgeist
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On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration, America’s story is cast as either triumphant inheritance or unfinished grievance, with no neutral ground in between. Read More
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The consequences of history often arrive like starlight: events unfold in real time, but their true significance can take years to reach us. Read More
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Britain’s leaders celebrate multiculturalism even as the ideology reshaping the nation grows increasingly hostile to the civilization that welcomed it. Read More
Bacchic Right
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Most wine columns resemble recipes from Larousse Gastronomique or Mastering the Art of French Cooking in this way: they have happy endings. Read More
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In his History of the Franks, Gregory of Tours (c. 539-594) wrote one of my favorite opening sentences: “A great many things keep happening, some of them good, some of them bad.”… Read More
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Our evening’s wine consumption had hidden interconnections. Read More
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