Essays

Opposition to Reason in Conservative Thought

“Conservatives are opposed to Reason”: a good summary, if one that makes for bad PR.

Jun 13 •

About The Author

The author was born in California, and ever since, he has associated west with toward the ocean.

Jun 6 •

All the Fun’s in How You Say a Thing by Timothy Steele: Review and Refutation

Part 2 of Theory of Meter

May 30 •

Poets on Poets: Kirsch on Graham and Ashbery

Free verse often leaves me cold: my dirty little secret.

May 25 •

Recent Advances in Knowledge of God

Time was, philosophers were skeptics, looking down on the poor benighted masses, who think their opinions are knowledge when they really aren’t.

May 18 •

Philosophers on Film

In Damien Chazelle’s film Whiplash, Andrew Neiman, a drumming student at Schaffer Conservatory, is called to join Terence Fletcher’s studio band.

May 15 •

Theory of meter: introduction to an introduction

Part 1: against feet revisited

May 11 •

Pictures of Parenthood Very Different From Our Own

The natural right to liberty surely includes the right to bring children into this world, and to raise them as your own.

May 4 •

Anne Bradstreet: An Appreciation

America's first great poet

Apr 27 •

Notes on Japonisme

European painting had pursued “naturalistic illusionism” since the Renaissance.

Apr 13 •

Apr 6 •

“In their own image”

Justifying the Family, 2

Mar 30 •

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