February 2012
17 posts
“We are the people of the book. We love our books. We fill our houses with books....”
– Cory Doctorow (via atomos)
“To be clear: members of the Washington establishment can be knaves and fools....”
– The Establishment, Compromise and Conservatives
“To ask whether life is fair — either here and now, or at any time or place...”
– The ‘Fairness’ Fraud
“There is indeed every reason to think that the president made the worst of all...”
– The Oil Market Panic
“Americans (including Republicans) know that their personal wellbeing is...”
– Stephen P. White
“Under Obama’s proposal, federal spending will rise from $3.8 trillion in 2013 to...”
– Obama Spend It Now | Washington Free Beacon
“The true conservative knows that the economic problem blends into the political...”
– Russell Kirk
“Possibly the greatest irony in American political culture is that conservatism —...”
– Shelby Steele
“The truth is that most of the dysfunctions in our health-care system are the...”
– Romney vs. Obamacare - Yuval Levin & Ramesh Ponnuru
January 2012
29 posts
“In other words, contemporary liberalism offers religious groups a choice. They...”
– Ross Douthat, Religious Giving and Its Critics
“After flirting with the role of the reasonable centrist after his party’s defeat...”
– Ross Douthat
“Go to a man in poverty who attends a beautiful church and offer to tear down the...”
– Marc Barnes
2 tags
WatchA marriage proposal, Lego style
“When there began to be such a thing as books written for children, in the...”
– Ursula K. LeGuin (via ayjay)
“When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of...”
– Alexander Hamilton (via @bdomenech’s invaluable The Transom)
“Jon Huntsman’s record and platform are conservative, but his words and...”
– Timothy P. Carney
“Books can be possessive, can’t they? You’re walking around in a bookstore and a...”
– Sarah Addison Allen (via doubledaybooks)
2 tags
“It’s both as historians and theologians that we must acknowledge that the...”
– J. R. Daniel Kirk
December 2011
21 posts
“All great myths, all foundational stories, can be interpreted as answering these...”
– Brian J. Walsh
2 tags
“We tell ourselves stories about who we are and what we believe, blind to the...”
– J. R. Daniel Kirk
“The reason we have politics at all is that we disagree, sometimes deeply, about...”
– Ramesh Ponnuru