Christmas 2008
Merry Christmas!
Telling the world
I’ve been doing some radio interviews to promote my book, maybe a couple dozen in total. Here are some I have links to:
- Niel Young’s The Advocates, December 20. Permanent link to the audio.
- Point of View with Kerby Anderson, December 16. Permanent link.
- Dr. Barry Creamer’s Live from Criswell, December 16.
The twilight of reason
Here’s the text of a talk I gave at the first annual conference of The H. L. Mencken Club. (Actually, I only had time to present the first 3/5 or so of the talk. The remainder was mostly a rehash of previous talks, though, so maybe it’s just as well.)
The Twilight of Reason
James … More ...
Reading the tea leaves
The merest straw in the wind, but interesting nonetheless: Religious people have superior visual perception. It seems that Dutch Calvinist university students recognize embedded visual patterns faster than their atheist classmates.
The study reminds me of one Christopher Alexander reports in his Nature of Order that showed that children were generally very good at … More ...
Save $$$
My book has been picked up by Conservative Book Club. That means you can get it for $1 as part of their introductory package of three books. They also carry The Tyranny of Nice by Kathy Shaidle and Pete Vere, and The Tyranny of Tolerance by Judge Robert H. Dierker, Jr., so you can … More ...
Paideia and that kind of stuff
A friend is guest-editing a special issue of some publication that will deal with problems of gifted and talented education. For some reason he asked me to contribute an article, and here’s an initial sketch that I plan to expand a great deal. Any comments at this point would be nonetheless welcome.
… More ...Gifted and Talented
More awakening
I expanded the lecture I gave last summer at Gardone into a series of three essays that can be found in the October, November, and December issues of The Angelus. You can also read a Google docs version of the series as a single document.
Another review!
David Gordon has a review of my book in the current issue of The American Conservative. The review is generally very favorable: he says it’s an “outstanding contribution to political philosophy” that is “essential reading” for “those in search of a revitalized American conservatism.” That’s certainly as much as any sane author could wish … More ...
What is to be done?
Here’s the text of remarks regarding “The Future of Conservatism” I made on a panel at an ISI conference at Yale.
Introduction
I’ve got 15 minutes to talk about the future of conservatism, so all I can do is present one part of that future in bold strokes.
Conservatism has big problems today. When you’ve … More ...
Is Obama an Extreme Abortion Proponet
Here is a discussion transferred from Frank Turek’s site. The issue is whether is Obama is the most extreme proponent of abortion:
People have an instinct for murder, which many try to redefine as choice insofar as abortion is concerned. Let’s examine a real-life fact. Nanking. This is a city in China that the Japanese … More ...