Too Big to Ignore
Our military is off defending Afghanistan and Iraq from themselves while our Financial Titans are rescued to live another day of utterly neglecting the welfare of the Republic.
New Blog
Long time friend of FPR, Michael Brendan Dougherty, has a new blog. Go read it. On why his blog has no comments: “They boost traffic and make people feel they are part of a community … a community of tiresome morons and heckler...
Citizen-Soldiers, or Warriors?
Whether left or right, the ethical education of those we send to fight should concern us all.
Have We Forgotten the Women?
Tradition supposedly bears the thumbprints of Roman patricians with browbeaten wives or frustrated monks who shivered in mediæval abbeys.
The Horror of a World without TAC
Keeping alive a print vehicle for independent, thoughtful conservatism depends on us.
Supremacy?
Yesterday’s ruling in the Arizona immigration law matter by Federal District Judge Susan Bolton is reverberating around the internet today. Most of the heat is generated by the substantive policy question of illegal immigration, howe...
Science, Self-Deification, and Gnosticism in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark”
Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Birthmark" provides a springboard for reflecting on the problems of scientism, especially the temptation to self-deification and, what Eric Voegelin terms, modern Gnosticism.
Go Buy Bye Bye
In which Bill Kauffman bids a hopeful aloha to the American Imperium.
The Loneliness of the Long Dissonant Reader
Or, “Can you hear me in the back? Why don’t we all move in a little closer…” My latest column in the absolutely essential American Conservative: http://www.amconmag.com/blog/the-loneliness-of-the-long-dissonant-reade...
Naive Experts: Economists and the Real World
If your doctor had this same track record of diagnosing and treating disease, you’d be dead by now.