Casey Chalk

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  • Dec 7, 2023
    Few men would confuse the late Willmoore Kendall for a Southern gentleman. The son of a blind Oklahoma Southern Methodist preacher, the conservative political philosopher married...
  • Sep 29, 2023
    When I was a teenager, one of my favorite albums was my father’s copy of the soundtrack from the 1983 movie The Big Chill. Booming from my father’s cassette player came...
  • Sep 21, 2023
    The following is a condensed version of "We Should Still Love Kojak" by Casey Chalk, published at Law & Liberty. NYPD detective Lieutenant Theodopolis "Theo" Kojak’s...
  • Sep 4, 2023
    NYPD detective Lieutenant Theodopolis “Theo” Kojak’s eponymous CBS series represented something new in police dramas when it debuted fifty years ago this October....
  • Aug 10, 2023
    When the young English Jesuit novitiate Gerard Manley Hopkins submitted his poem The Wreck of the Deutschland to the Jesuit magazine The Month, the editors accepted the unusual...
  • May 24, 2023
    In the last decade, the United States has admitted nearly eleven million legal immigrants, equating to roughly the combined population of Iowa, Oklahoma, and Oregon. An additional...
  • Apr 3, 2023
    In the last half-century, the middle class has considerably contracted, a trend that seems likely to continue, especially in light of our increasingly vulnerable economy. Indeed,...
  • Feb 22, 2023
    Twenty-five years ago, in an act of apathetic surrender to mediocrity, rock and roll announced its precipitous decline into irrelevance. The event that marked rock’s...
  • Feb 8, 2023
    Ido not wish to see this country a country of selfish prosperity where those who enjoy the material prosperity think only of the selfish gratification of their own desires, and are...