“When small men cast long shadows, you know the sun is setting.”
Lao Tzu…
October 2009
The awarding of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize on a man who has been President not even for 10 months (before that, briefly, a U.S. senator, and before that, briefly, a State senator) sends as clear a signal as might be sent…
In the late 1970s, my grandfather’s older brother, already in his nineties, was pressing his almost deaf ears to a little portable radio still hoping to hear that “the Americans are coming” to “save us” from Communism. He died in…
A missive has gone out across the land and globe from the Director of the American Political Science Association urgently alerting members of the Association that Senator Coburn (R-OK) has proposed an amendment that would eliminate National Science Foundation funding…
A colleague directed me to a blog written by a leftist friend of mine—someone whose views on everything from metaphysics to politics are radically different from my own. We have not seen each other for years but we had worked…
Stephen MacLean thinks the answer is yes. Is he right? At the very least, would the movement need another name? As our economic future contintues to unravel, perhaps it’s time for a creative alternative to the shrill and all too…
Over at “Inside Catholic,” one of their stable of writers, Eric Pavlet, expresses excitement in discovering thoughts on economics that eschew the contemporary statism vs. free market debate. FPR even gets a shout-out in the comments, nice to see. We…
JEFFERSON COUNTY, KANSAS. …October is here, the chill wind blows, leaves are on the ground, so it must be time to talk about ghosts. This essay first appeared in the Covenanter Review Vol. 17, No. 1, Summer 2008. I reprint
Washington, Connecticut.… The urge, some might say mania with which our species has attempted to distance itself from Nature is a defining occupation and it appears to be quickening in this mechanized modern era, despite oft-discussed presumptions of the new
