People want things–lots of things–but what do we want most? What’s on top? It seems to me the failure to answer that question is at the heart of progressives’ proclivity for self-defeat. The typical pitfall of progressives is to load each decision with so many and varied significances that it becomes impossible to choose for …
My husband has been reading a book on the history of Minnehaha County, South Dakota. It was published in 1949, and Don’s name appears on the flyleaf in the large, round Palmer-method hand of someone who had just learned to write script at Laura Ingalls Wilder School (no kidding). The other day he read aloud …
The Nation of 17 May carried a piece about the shortcomings of the new South Africa. The article seems well-informed and mostly reasonable, and some (but not all) of the shortcomings seem short indeed. But my heart sank when I saw it. It’s not that I thought post-apartheid South Africa was heaven on earth, it’s …