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Longer Essays and Studies
- American Executive, On the
- Art vs Beauty
- Common Knowledge
- Culture and Community
- Emotions in Aristotle, The
- Four Arts of the Chinese Literatus, The
- Homework and the Rise of the 12-Hour School Day
- How To Work Your Latin Missal and Gradual
- John Constable and the Enchantment of England
- Joseph Epstein's "A Literary Education", A Meditation on
- Lessons For Teachers:
- Love the Calendar
- The Tortoise and the Hare
- Test Wisely
- One Chance
- Policing Cheating
- Why Cheat
- Five Cheating Anecdotes
- The Performance
- Oops
- Libertarian Case for "Free" Healthcare?, A
- Libertarianism and Moral Authority
- Man, State, and Morality
- Manners, Duties, and Society
- Manners Revisited: Lessons From a Founding Father
- Notes Toward A Restoration of Conservatism
- Philosophy and the Solace of Self
- Presidential Rhetoric
- Presidential Rhetoric I: Worthy of Marble?
- Presidential Rhetoric II: John Adams
- Presidential Rhetoric III: Thomas Jefferson
- Presidential Rhetoric IV: James Madison
- Presidential Rhetoric V: James Monroe
- Presidential Rhetoric VI: John Quincy Adams
- Presidential Rhetoric VII: Andrew Jackson
- Presidential Rhetoric VIII: Martin Van Buren
- Presidential Rhetoric: Grading the Graders
- Primitive Romance
- Revolutionary Education
- Sehnsucht and Homecoming
- Shakespeare's 'Death of Priam'
- Signs of Life: 40 Years of the New Order
- Taxonomy of Sports, A
- Taxonomy of Discord, A
- Television, On
- Thoughts on Homeschooling: Part I | Part II
- Three Modes of Perception of Economics
Short Essays and Observations
- A New Convention
- Accio Style!
- Actually...
- Advice to Myself
- Anger at Those Absent
- Challenges, On
- Don't Lash Out
- Eager Martyrs
- Know Your Role
- Meals, On
- Outside
- Plants and Habits
- Seizing Days, On
- Small Things
- Spare Yourself
- Splinters
- What Twitter Is Not
- Wind In the Sails
- Aesthetics of Scale
- All Too Simple
- Ancient Music: Euripides' Orestes
- Another 4th
- Another Kind of Cliff
- Autumnal Reflections: Part I | Part II
- Abraham and the Triune God
- Age of Mephistopheles, The
- Architecture of Justice, The
- Art, Vomit, and Being Forgotten
- Article Awry, An
- Art of Not Having an Opinion, The
- Art of Stillness, The
- Artwork of Middle Earth: Three by John Howe
- Artwork of Middle Earth
- Baffling Critique of Teach for America, A
- Balancing Life, On
- Barbers, On
- Blog Encephalitis
- Book Stories
- Book Stories II: A Visit to Strand
- Bring Back the Funny Aesthetes
- Bullseye
- Calvin Coolidge on Classics
- Carnival of Peeves, A
- Cars and Driving, On
- Case of Anthony Weiner
- Causa Pulchritudinis
- Caution: Intellectuals at Work
- Celebrate Good Obama
- Central Park in Spring
- Central Planners at Heart
- Charm, On
- Cicero, On Five Lines of
- Cicero, Frightful Reactionary
- Citizen's Examination of Conscience, A
- Classics Problem, The
- Conscious Dignity, Freedom, and Tragic Fate
- Contempt and Love
- Courage, On
- Crazy Libertarians!
- Critic, On the; On Roger Ebert
- Defining Progressivism
- Delightful Rest, That
- Democracy and Culture
- Democracy and Freedom
- Displeasure of Noise, On the
- Don't Be A Grinning Idiot
- Dressing Down, On
- Ecce! The Bourgeois Boomer
- Economic Thought In Ancient Greece, A Response to
- Education, On
- Eliot on Education
- Epimetheus at the Library
- Extra[ordinary] Ministers
- Extra, Extra [Credit]
- Face, The
- Fair Wage, That
- Fear, Pity, and the "Used-to-Haves"
- Fine or Beautiful
- Five Modes of Prayer
- Flotilla of Credentials, A
- Fools of Gotham, The
- Four Summers: Lessons From Thucydides
- Freedom and Natural Law
- Gandalf the. . . Libertarian
- Good Intentions
- Graduation, On
- Gratitude, On
- Gratitude and. . .Capitalism?
- Gravitas and Comitas
- Hayek on Conservatism and Liberalism
- Heard at Holy Innocents
- Heart of the School: Christian Humanism and the Liturgy
- Hell, No
- Heretical Mind, The
- How to Avoid the Apocalypse
- How to New York
- Ideas (Philosophical ideas in art): Part I | Part II
- Inclinations, Judgment, and Clemency, On
- International Women's Day, On
- Intimacy, On
- Irritating People and the Concentricity of Relationships
- It Could Have Been Worse
- John Finnis on Secularism
- Jonathan Winters: Hilarious Madness
- Joy of Being Grumpy, On the
- Joy of Magnanimity, The
- Joy of Repair, The
- Just Plain Bad: A Speech
- Keats' Bright Star
- Knock, Knock
- Last Virtue, The
- Law, Brief Comments on the
- Left, Right, and Chicken
- Leisure, Mangled
- Liberal Arts: Dead or Alive
- Libertarian Invective
- Long Road, The
- Lost Calendar, The
- Lost in Translation #1: Vergil
- MacIntyre on Capitalism, On
- Man and His Honor, A
- Manus
- Masterworks, $1
- Melville, On A Passage from
- Memento
- Minding the Children
- Modest Proposal, A: The Sortes Virgilianae
- Modest Proposal, A: For Professional Philosophers
- Minus Virtue: Aristotle and the Neuroscientists
- Muscles, On
- My Guy
- Normalcy, On
- Odi et amo
- Ordinariate Reservations
- Passing Over and Homo Ignavus, On
- Patience, Despair
- Penne Alla Vodka Philosophy of Life, The
- Please Stand Up
- Political Campaign Alternatives: A Modest Proposal
- Politics of Leisure, The
- Political Moderation, Reflections on
- Praise of the Copier, In
- Praise of Legos, In
- Present Mess, The
- Progressive Family, The
- Put Down That Missal
- Put More Arts
- Quiz for Myself, A
- Rain on My Parade, Please
- Reading Bad Writing, On
- Reading, Writing, and Theodore Dalrymple
- Redemption
- Reflections on Polishing My Shoes
- Re-Forming, On
- Resources, On
- Rhetoric and Argument, Brief Comments on
- Right Now, You Say?
- Roman Lectionaries, Old and New
- Scholarship and Crooked Things
- Self-Knowledge Through Toothpaste
- Serendipitous Life of the Mind, The
- Serendipitous Sanskrit Discovery, A
- Sinister Side of Elitism, The
- Slaves, All Slaves
- Snooki and the Wookie
- Snowball of Progress
- So Let It Be Written
- Socialism: What's In A Name?
- Sour Grapes
- Spiral of Indolence and the Summer of George
- Student Debt Stigma, The
- sui amantes
- Sum and Part
- Summertime Catholic
- Switching Off vs. Switching Over
- Take Fewer Pictures
- Taste, Character
- Thanks for All the Fish
- Therapy and Consolation
- They Took Our Jobs!
- Thinking 9 to 5
- Things I Don't Get:
- Applause
- Michael Caine on a Bee
- Writing on Clothes
- Gilligan's Island Does Hamlet and Carmen
- Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
- Offertory Shenanigans
- Ghostwriting
- Kanye West at Oxford
- Guessing Accents
- Jeopardy Shenanigans
- Alex Trebec as Pagliaccio
- Taking Up Two Spots
- Three Portraits: Sargent, Catullus, Mozart
- Tolkien on Nature: Cultivation vs. Coercion
- Tourism, On
- Trigger Warnings
- Tulgey Mischmasch, A
- Unloved
- Vacationing, On
- Verbal Chivalry, On
- Vitae Praecepta Beatae
- Wagner and The Lord of the Rings
- Walk in the Park, A
- Wanderer, The
- What You Look Like #1: Changing Your Avatar
- What You Look Like #2: Lazy People
- When to Trash
- Where's the Eloquence
- Where Was I? Part I: Marriage
- Where Was I? Part II: Because Latin
- Who Wants to Live in An Experiment?
- Whose Bones?
- Why I Hate Modernism: The Tragedy of St. Stephen Walbrook
- Wile E. Coyote, Genius
- Wise and Good
- Word Power
- Word Power II: What's In A Name?
- Word Power III: Die, Word, Die!
- Yeah, but. . . you know
- Your Daily Pernicious Infusion
- 10 Things to Remember Before You Tweet
- 10 Things Not to Tweet: Political Edition
- Anathema 2011
- Bucket List of the Mind
- Classroom Nightmares
- Five Symphonies from Joseph Haydn
- I Took A Little Trip
- Important Things. . . According to Facebook
- Thanksgiving 2015
- Thanksgiving 2014
- Thanksgiving 2013
- Thanksgiving 2012
- Thanksgiving 2011
- Thanksgiving 2010
- Thanksgiving 2009 (T)
- Thanksgiving 2009 (N)
- Philosophy Books
- Short Books, Long on Wisdom, I (T)
- Short Books, Long on Wisdom, II (N)
- Top Ten: Advice for Young People
- Top Ten: College Caveats
- Top Ten: Latin Learning Impediments
- Top Ten: Libertarians I Would Like to See Debate the Candidates
- Top Ten: Mozart Works for Oboe
- Top Ten: Reasons People Don't Like the Latin Mass
- Top Ten: Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Top Ten: Things Which Annoy Classicists
- What Teachers Should Learn in Graduate School
- Why Richard Simmons is Awesome
Crossword Puzzles
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