The most important—and, perhaps, the only—aspect to the Israel-Palestine peace process that the “Palestine Papers” have revealed...
J.L. Wall
J.L. Wall is a native Kentuckian in self-imposed exile to the Midwest, where he teaches writing to college students and over-analyzes Leonard Cohen lyrics.
I’m not certain where this line of thought is going quite yet — but it’s going somewhere....
(This post is part of an ongoing series about Western culture and politics, and how the potential...
Via Joe Carter, a series of one-sentence summaries of the Bible from various “scholars and pastors.” None...
I know, I know. You thought you were done with that whole Huck Finn controversy. But for...
In an attempt I will likely regret to move the continuation of the Civil War/War-Between (Among?)-the-States/War of...
My holiday viewing experience consisted solely of True Grit which (not unpredictably) has already been commented on...
[F]or about thirty years I have been showing my respect for the established orthodoxy by skipping breakfast....
I quoted Jeff MacGregor the other day on Bruce Springsteen and Ronald Reagan: Maybe the most interesting...
So claims Jeff MacGregor in a fascinating series of notes on Derek Jeter, baseball, the beautiful, the...
(This post is part of an ongoing series about Western culture and politics, and how the potential...
Or so thinks the anti-anti-exceptionalist right. Others (well, mostly just Larison) have already done a good deal of...
Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi will no longer be represented in Congress by William Faulkner.
I noted, the other week, the concern with a politicized authenticity in the right’s New Elite rhetoric. ...
The TSA is again stepping up security measures, and promises that no one will sneak a bomb...
R.R. Reno has written an essay that asks some important questions and sent me thumbing through my...
Charles Murray sees an insidious plot to seize control of America. It’s the rise of a new...
I’ve had this theory pretty much since Tennessee first announced him as their football coach. While I...
The Paris Review has put all of their author interviews — ever — online. The New York...
Hello there, world: I’m the other new guy. Allow me to introduce myself. I graduated in June...
