“It is a pleasure to carry out one’s duties of a citizen and to receive in return a receipt or a neat styrene card with one’s name on it certifying, so to speak, one right to exist.” – Binx Bolling in Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer “Place ref...
Heaven favored me with three successive clement weekends.
Since posting “A Place Called Home” we have learned of the passing of Otto Warmbier. Just as home is the place where absence is felt most durably, so home is the place where loss is felt most deeply. The Staff and Contributors o...
Trump, America’s Father-in-Chief? By Zachary Michael Jack Donald Trump has been called many things in the press in the first six months of his presidency, yet the media have thus far missed his most overlooked calling card: Father-in...
Grand Rapids, MI Father’s Day is around the corner. I had to look up the term to see if it has an apostrophe. It does, and it has had since the time over a century ago that it became a day set aside for special celebration in the United Sta...
Chuck Marohn over at Strong Towns does some interesting podcasts, but none more so than a recent one with FPR regulars Elias Crim and Rebekah Grace Potts (somehow Susannah Black managed to photobomb it). Highly recommended, as it is a subst...
Peter Augustine Lawler passed away on Tuesday, leaving a significant void not only in the lives of his friends, family, and students, but in the intellectual life of American conservatism and thus the nation. Peter was an original: he could...
So long as gravity obtains, sawing off the branch you’re sitting on is never a good idea.
FPR will be holding it annual conference on September 30 at Hope College in Holland, MI. We’re putting together a great program. You won’t want to miss this. Conference details coming soon. We hope to see you in Holland!
New Directions for Catholic Social and Political Research: Humanity vs. Hyper-Modernity, Guido Preparata, (ed.) Palgrave MacMillan, 319 pages The future is notoriously uncertain but nonetheless, legion have been the prognostications put for...
