May 17, 2012 - Ordinary Times

/// May 17, 2012

Wendell Berry Studies I: Mother Nature’s Son

Wendell Berry’s recent Jefferson Lecture was not, as both his supporters and detractors have acknowledged, his finest piece of writing. His use of the lectern to present a theory of Kentuckian animosity for all...

Guest Authors

/// May 17, 2012

Talk radio, taxes, and the Bible

~by M.A. Conor P. Williams, in Conservatism Isn’t Radical—It’s “Modular”, argues that there is a certain amount of mental jiu-jitsu involved in shifting frameworks from argument to argument. An interesting test of this very case...

Mike Dwyer

/// May 17, 2012

Minorities Now in the Majority

Recent census figures show that for the first time more than half the children born in the U.S. were minorities.

Ryan Noonan

/// May 17, 2012

Adventures in Baby Name Charts

After reading Will’s post yesterday about baby names, I started poking around in the Social Security baby name database (which is an incredibly fun resource and might be all we get, since Republicans think...