End of an Era

Sorry I have been gone for a few days.  Work got extremely busy, but I now have some free time again.

The No Left Turns blog at the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University is closing its doors for good.  I want to thank Dr. Peter Schramm, Executive Director of the Center, for his time and work on the blog.  For a long time, it has been one of the best blogs on the internet for principled, deep discussions on the American Republic and its foundations in the laws of nature and nature's God.  NLT is truly what the founders had in mind when they conceived of a nation of people capable of self-government.  

I will quote Dr. Schramm's last post in full:

We started NLT in October of 2001.  I thought it was a good idea, as did many of you even back then.  In fact, in my typical bragadoccio mode I warned Jonah Goldberg a few months later that we would put NRO out of business.  I'm glad we didn't do that, of course.  But I am happy that we had a good run at things.  In fact, I am proud of our effort and I want to thank our fine authors.  Thank you very much!  As you know we were one of the few serious blogs where no one was paid for writing, and yet our authors wrote and wrote, plus there were some very good conversations with readers.  Thanks to all of you for that.

Over a decade of writing isn't bad. It's an accomplishment we can be proud of.  I know all our words at NLT were not birds in flight, some were, inevitably, potatoes.  But all of it was thoughtful, sometimes full of flair and ardor, sometimes full of deep learning, almost always revealing a liveliness of mind found only at a few other blogs.  I am grateful to all the bloggers  for their work.  I have learned much.  We have taught one another much.  We acted like citizens.

We will archive it all, and it will be accessible from our new Ashbrook site that will go up in three or four weeks.  It will be a fine site.  I hope you will like it.

I don't have to get too soft and weepy with y'all for you to know that I am--as is everyone at the Ashbrook Center--very grateful that we had this opportunity and that it lasted so long.  God Bless.

Our bloggers can be found at other places, including Postmodern Conservative, Liberty Law, and Power Line.