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December 24– December 31, 2007	•	“Reactionary Utopian” columns for these dates have not yet been posted to the website.
December 18, 2007 A reprint from Universal Press Syndicate	•	Honoring Evil Callous in himself and the cause of callousness in other men
November 15– December 11, 2007	•	No “Reactionary Utopian” columns were written or sent out for these dates.
November 8, 2007 A reprint from Universal Press Syndicate	•	Religion, Old and New Preservation from that deep loss of modernity: the loss of identity
November 1, 2007 A reprint from Universal Press Syndicate	•	The Demise of Privacy If sex is private why is it more public than ever before?
October 25, 2007 A reprint from Universal Press Syndicate	•	Is John Wayne Dangerous? Civilization depends on the hardy virtues of courage and honor.
October 16, 2007 A reprint from Universal Press Syndicate	•	Same-Sex What?! A new morally imperative fad and enforceable taboo
October 11, 2007 A reprint from Universal Press Syndicate	•	The Judicial Veto Centralized legislation has been accompanied by centralized jurisprudence.
October 9, 2007 A reprint from Universal Press Syndicate	•	Leave My Mind Alone “Diversity” is our greatest strength, which is why all children must get the same kind and degree of education.
October 5, 2007 A reprint from Universal Press Syndicate	•	God and the Internet Real authority is a check on those who currently hold power.
October 3, 2007	•	Our Worst Enemy The new Hitler, and propaganda designed to stupefy
September 13–28, 2007	•	“Reactionary Utopian” columns for these dates have not yet been posted to the website.
September 11, 2007	•	Civil Rights and Civility The fallacy that everything depends on legislation gives political leaders a stature they don’t deserve.
September 6, 2007	•	Listening to Ourselves Bush is reduced to warning of what could happen if we lose.
September 4, 2007	•	Mother Teresa’s Doubts Changing the bedpans of dying beggars years would try anyone’s faith.
August 30, 2007 A reprint from Universal Press Syndicate	•	Loose Cannons with Nukes The elusive distinction between boot camp and sensitivity training.
August 28, 2007 A reprint from Universal Press Syndicate	•	The Lady Is a Man When the authorship question isn’t at issue, many scholars believe that the sonnets are autobiographical.
August 23, 2007 A reprint from Universal Press Syndicate	•	Underworld and Overworld In every society there is a parasite class that gets others to work for them while keeping the law on their side.
August 21, 2007 A reprint from Universal Press Syndicate	•	Those Dizzy Feminists Solving problems that no longer exist
August 16, 2007 A reprint from Universal Press Syndicate	•	Litmus Test Alert Political language is not meant to inspire reflection.
August 14, 2007 A reprint from Universal Press Syndicate	•	Things to Come Extrapolating from current trends
August 9, 2007	•	No column was posted for this day.
August 7, 2007	•	No column was posted for this day.
August 2, 2007	•	The Nixon I Didn’t Know The “imperial” presidency of Richard Nixon was merely part of the global empire liberals had been cheering on for several generations.
July 31, 2007	•	No column was posted for this day.
July 27, 2007 A reprint from Universal Press Syndicate	•	Missing Lives Forty million abortions, and we’re supposed to worry about how tough it is to be an abortionist.
July 26, 2007 A reprint from Universal Press Syndicate	•	The Stepfather America has forgotten its real fathers.
July 19, 2007	•	No column was posted for this day.
July 16, 2007	•	Big Words, Old Dreams We politely refer to Israel as an ally of the United States rather than its client.
July 12, 2007	•	Behind the Times No worldly persecution could have damaged the Church as much as Vatican II did.
July 9, 2007	•	The Lessons of History Tiny narratives tagged with single, simple morals
July 5, 2007	•	A Pair of Liberals Liberals don’t rail against the executive and judicial abuses of liberals.
July 2, 2007	•	The Bush Legacy Bush has been a failure in almost every way, but especially in foreign policy.
June 28, 2007 A reprint from Universal Press Syndicate	•	The Optional Jesus Not divine, but awfully quotable
June 26, 2007 A reprint from Universal Press Syndicate	•	The Age of Nonjudgmentalism From a nonjudgmental perspective, everything is fine.
June 21, 2007 A reprint from Universal Press Syndicate	•	Extremist No More How many conservatives are willing to say the 1964 Civil Rights Act is unconstitutional?
June 18, 2007	•	Optimists, Pessimists, and Others Eavesdropping on the soliloquies of madmen
June 14, 2007	•	Defense and Other Lies Liberals lie about abortion the way conservatives lie about war.
June 12, 2007	•	The Honor of Ron Paul He doesn’t belong in a party that has made conservative a synonym for destructive.
June 08, 2007	•	Cruel Doctrines If our conception of God is so “cruel,” how is it that we put so much stress on his mercy and loving kindness?
June 05, 2007 A reprint from Universal Press Syndicate	•	Bipartisan Spirituality A politician holds office because a modest majority of half-informed people who imagined that their votes mattered reckoned that he was the lesser evil.
May 31, 2007	•	Wanted: A New Conservatism Or a really old one
May 29, 2007	•	The Great American Fascist It is presumptuous to assert a consensus where none exists.
May 24, 2007	•	American Idols Giving Ahura Mazda a pass
May 22, 2007	•	Special Edition I don’'t understand people with only one edition of Shakespeare, but if you want just one Shakespeare, this is the one to get.
May 17, 2007	•	You Must Remember This Rewriting history
May 15, 2007	•	My Cane Man’s capacity for praise and appreciation, disinterested joy in things outside himself
May 11, 2007	•	Giuliani, the Pope, and Aristotle Liberals are seldom delighted when the Church speaks out and they complain when she doesn’t.
May 8, 2007	•	The Sanctimony of the Atheists Free association with a grudge
May 3, 2007	•	The Sobran Method: A True Story How my grandson learned to love Shakespeare
May 1, 2007	•	A Great American Actor Give him an audience and he was magic.
April 26, 2007	•	Defending the “Procedure” Abortion is one way of controlling all those people who tend to reproduce with such annoying fertility.
April 23, 2007	•	The Fadsters Liberals have always had one great gift: the ability to start stampedes.
April 19, 2007	•	A Time for Digression The first dramatist ever to write both immortal comedies and immortal tragedies
April 16, 2007	•	The Arab Solution Slavery and castration
April 12, 2007	•	The Science of Expertology Getting suspicious when all the experts agree that we should surrender our liberties to the mammoth state
April 9, 2007	•	What Obama Can Do A chance to win the gratitude even of Americans who have given up on voting
April 5, 2007	•	Happy Easter! The Problem of Evil is trumped by the real mystery, the Problem of Good.
April 3, 2007	•	You Be the Judge Quotations from Shakespeare
March 29, 2007	•	My Other Sandy Love and a handshake
March 26, 2007	•	An Enemy of the People The dunce cap has become obsolete.
March 23, 2007	•	I Remember Sandy How I learned all I really needed to know about women.
March 22, 2007	•	The Shakespeare Bigots Loosely ascribing bigotry is itself a form of bigotry.
March 19, 2007 A reprint from Universal Press Syndicate	•	The New Taboos We live in a pluralistic society where everyone must think and talk alike.
March 15, 2007	•	No column was posted for this day.
March 13, 2007	•	Scandal at Silver Lake In 1958, I nearly got my entire Boy Scout Troop thrown out of summer camp at Silver Lake.
March 8, 2007	•	A Coriolanus in Our Future? Tact is not his strong suit.
March 5, 2007	•	Family Values, Roman and Republican The wildest St. Patrick’s Day Rome has ever seen
March 1, 2007	•	The Fun of Falstaff He is master of the situation, not its butt.
February 26, 2007	•	How to Make a Great Movie Al Gore, in An Inconvenient Truth, reminds me of Robert Preston merrily panicking the River City rubes in The Music Man.
February 22, 2007	•	Fine-Filed Phrases Notice how much Shakespeare can say in ten words or fewer.
February 19, 2007	•	No column was posted for this day.
February 15, 2007	•	Rated FDR In his defense, Roosevelt ordered the development of the atomic bomb, which at least does not produce much second-hand smoke.
February 12, 2007	•	America after Anna Nicole Most cartographers agree that Iran is situated right between Iraq and Afghanistan.
February 8, 2007	•	For Bigots Only Even if the charge is false by objective standards, you obviously did something to make someone want to make a false charge.
February 6, 2007 A reprint from Universal Press Syndicate	•	Free Speech, Anyone? The mob fury Mr. Graglia encountered, abetted by university officials, ensures that free speech will stay within safe limits in the future.
February 1, 2007	•	A Better Tyrant? We are still in the era of dictatorship.
January 29, 2007	•	Ms. President? We’ve already had our revolution, and it’s continuing under Republican management. How much worse could she be?
January 25, 2007	•	President Paul? After six years of supporting George W. Bush, conservatives should be in a reflective mood.
January 23, 2007	•	Prospects for 2008 One issue unites all the candidates of both parties: Nobody wants to revive the U.S. Constitution.
January 18, 2007	•	Remembering Sam Francis There was no one more immune to liberal enthusiasms.
January 16, 2007 A reprint from Universal Press Syndicate	•	Foreign and What? Authority in the guise of the “expert.”
January 11, 2007	•	End of a Dream George Bush sounds like an arsonist trying to convince us that the blazing city can still be saved.
January 9, 2007	•	The Elevation of Nancy Pelosi Many Americans actually believe that something of consequence happened last week.
January 4, 2007	•	A Ford, Not a Caesar In retrospect, even his ordinariness seems almost a rare and precious quality.
January 2, 2007	•	The Trouble with Vouchers It’s because schools control what children and adolescents think that the power of doing so should be dispersed in private hands rather than concentrated in the state.

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