Daily Archive: March 23, 2009

Two Individualisms

The discussion surrounding community, individualism, materialism, and the current economic and political crisis is anything but a discussion of perfect definitions or easy answers, and much of it is lodged only in vague theoretical...

quote for today

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable...

Why Localism Requires Globalism

UPDATE, 3/25: In response to some accurate criticism, I have pulled back some of the arguments made in the below post; my revised argument can be found here. Over the last few weeks, some...

Thank God for modern…

…medicine, or at least dentistry.  I was in the dentist chair today and thinking to myself how much worse this would be without things like novacaine and modern fillings and so forth.  I was...

This…

…is weird.  Expect good South park episodes to follow: