About

Cheryl Miller is a 2007 Phillips Foundation Journalism Fellow and the editor of Doublethink magazine. Her work has appeared in such publications as The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Wall Street Journal, Reason, and The Claremont Review of Books.

She can be contacted at cheryl [at] americasfuture [dot] org.

Read my other blog. The one that's not obnoxious and self-absorbed!

Recent publications

"The Master" in The Claremont Review of Books

"Scary Rise of the 'Sanctimommy'" in The Washington Times

"Why Malamud Faded" in Commentary

"Blogging Infertility" in The New Atlantis

"Outsourcing Childbirth" in The Wall Street Journal

"The Painless Peace of Twilight Sleep" in The New Atlantis

"The Genius of Old New York" in The Claremont Review of Books

"Parenthood At Any Price" in The New Atlantis

"Modern Girls and the Moral Revival They Are Leading" in The Washington Times

ARTICLE ARCHIVE

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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Virtue and Politics

I have been remiss. My friends Jenna and Ben Storey recently had a piece in the Weekly Standard on virtue and politics that caused quite a stir. Here's the money quote:

Conservatives need to defend free markets not as an ideology but as an aspect of policy that serves the purpose of allowing individual excellence to flourish. A defense of free markets as a means to a good society, rather than as an end in itself, has served us well in the past. The struggle against communism, for example, was not only, or even primarily, about free markets. It was about human dignity and the worth of a political order that allows individuals to live decent and virtuous lives. Freedom of enterprise is a part--but only a part--of that decent political order.

As they say, read the whole thing.

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Commonplace

"Fiction gives us an image of life--sometimes of a life we actually have and like to dwell on, but often and poignantly of one we have had and do not have now, or one we never have had and can never have...The little co-ed, worrying about her snub nose and her low mark in Sociology 2, dreams of being a debutante out of F. Scott Fitzgerald; and the thin-chested freshman, still troubled by acne, dreams of being a granite-jawed Neanderthal out of Mickey Spillane."

--Robert Penn Warren, "Why Do We Read Fiction?"

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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Commonplace

The fulfilment of love is knowing that love must become service, must become responsibility, and that love can't simply stay as love. Now if you think that is puritanical you may, but I think that love is not very well understood in American life, partly because our country is so very much moved by its young people and we are so very much concerned with young people who have romantic notions of love, incomplete notions of love. Love is, as you know, deeper and more complex, less satisfying, more satisfying, more intense, more impossible than most people even know or have contemplated.

--Bernard Malamud, "Hunting for Jewishness"

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Thursday, January 3, 2008

Sentence of the Day

"I'm a person who gets energised by deadlines, even when I'm well past them."--Bill Buford

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