Washington Irving embedded a comical criticism of the way people in modern society uproot in his classic story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow:
There is no encouragement for ghosts in most of our villages, for, they have scarcely had time to finish their first nap, and turn themselves in their graves, before their surviving friends have […]
On Staying Put
April 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Life in Specific, Politics
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Conservatives for Obama
February 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Politics
Yes, it’s happening, and not just among weirdo conservatives that no one’s heard of. Jeffrey Hart is a Burkean conservative was a speechwriter for Reagan and former writer for NRO (HT to De Regno Christi)
Jeffrey Hart sat at his kitchen table in slippers, reading Barack Obama’s words aloud. The retired Dartmouth professor, a former […]
Tags: conservatism·Edmund Burke·Iraq War·John McCain·Politics