Culture

The Complicated Certainty of Death 0
- Culture
- July 19, 2021
The One Certain Thing, by Peter Cooley (Carnegie Mellon University Press; 80 pp., $15.95). In “This Living Hand: A Visitation,” a poem from this outstanding testimony to a husband’s love for his wife and grief at her death, Peter Cooley writes about the crosses each wore. “Before they took your body to be burned/I scooped yours from
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The Decline and Decadence of Our Manners and Dress 15
- Culture
- July 19, 2021
Yesterday I was tapping away on the laptop when through the window I saw a young man walking up the drive toward the house. He was shirtless, wearing jeans and brogans—do they still call work boots by this name?—and I correctly assumed he was one of the crew repaving the driveway of the house across
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Beauty and the Brutalist: The Architectural Effect on Our Souls 0
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- July 16, 2021
There is a beautiful conservatory in my hometown that houses flower gardens year-round despite our chilly northern clime. Its soaring glass dome was built in 1915 and gracefully presides over a beautiful pond and manicured grounds in a stately way reminiscent of the Capitol dome. Several years ago, the park hosting the conservatory must have
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On Neighborly Conduct and Immigration 0
- Culture
- July 15, 2021
Who Is My Neighbor? An Anthology in Natural Relations, by Thomas Achord and Darrell Dow (584 pp., $24.99). The headmaster of a classical Christian school has teamed up with a statistician to collect and sort thousands of quotations pertaining to human relationships from myriad religious, political, and historic figures. The result is an invaluable reference for patriots
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The Forgotten Conservatism of ‘No Country for Old Men’0
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- July 14, 2021
When students hear me introduce No Country for Old Men as a deeply political novel with a right-wing position on contemporary American society, those who have seen the film adaptation by the Coen brothers perhaps wonder if the movie and the Cormac McCarthy novel are unrelated entities that just happen to bear the same title. What they
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Seeds of Hope in a Handful of America’s Youth 0
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- July 13, 2021
On Independence Day weekend, 130 high school seniors and their families gathered to celebrate their graduation from the Seton Home Study School, an international Catholic homeschooling company located here in Front Royal, Virginia. They came from 35 states and Puerto Rico to join the festivities and walk across a stage to receive their diplomas. After
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