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In Mere Christianity CS Lewis points out that the “Christian” virtue of “Charity” is not simply “giving to the poor.”  Rather, it is a clas...

We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise.  We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst  --...

What to write about? I could write about the Rolling Stone UVA story, but why? At this point, Rolling Stone and “Jackie” have about as much ...

In Plato's Republic, he relates a (probably fictional) story about a conversation between Socrates and Glaucon in which Socrates postula...

Update: This is what happens when I don't get enough caffeine.  Yes, Rachel Carson, not Corrie.  Corrected below.  *sigh* From the Com...

I've already posted this morning on Bob Costas's ignorant (at best) comments on Sunday Night Football last night.  I've also po...

The American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Bolshevik Revolution.  What do these things (and, likely, every other "revoluti...

Just the other day, my son hurt his little sister.  They were playing in his room; he was bouncing off the walls, and she was sitting playin...

Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming.  The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo. -Lo...

On the face of it, especially to conservative thought, this question is so ridiculous as to have no meaning.  The United States of America w...