Things I Couldn’t Conserve

Conservatives are easily accused of nostalgia. And what follows here will only make the accusation more tempting for the reader.­ So be it.

I try to be a conscientious father and think through the experiences my children have, to think of their formative effect. And in thinking through this, I feel I’ve tallied up seven thousand things I knew, or saw, or tasted in my childhood that my children can never know.