Devon, PA.… I am pleased to report that FPR will once again hold a roundtable discussion at the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture’s 2011 Conference ,which runs 10-12 November. Joining a few FPR writers for good talk
James Matthew Wilson
Devon, PA…. R.R. Reno writes on the First Things website this morning,
I’m no libertarian. St. Paul was clear that government is ordained by God, and St. Thomas helps us see that a robust public sphere protects us from
Mecosta, MI.… A FPR reader has written a fine essay dilating on a theme introduced in my own most recent piece (which was, in fact, largely a set of links to insightful reflections on the nature of homosexuality and
Devon, PA.… As my latest pair of essays on FPR scrolled across the screen, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was keeping the family legacy alive of undermining the obligations of public officials, Catholics, and all persons to live, act, or
Devon, PA. …Mark A. Signorelli’s superb essay, “Poetry and the Common Language,” appeared on FPR last month, and made to my mind a fine addition to helping us contemplate the relation of art and nature; like prayer and creed, these
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Devon, PA. …In my previous essay, a sort of preface, I mentioned a two-part essay I published in the wake of the 2008 presidential election, called “Sarah Palin, Spectacular Politics, and the Death of the Family.” The second part addresses several concerns
Devon, PA.… Scott Yenor, Associate Professor of Political Science at Boise State University, has provided two dispassionate and informative articles on the historical function of the family and the means we may take at present to regain a more
Devon, PA.… Newsweek listed Grand Rapids as one of America’s top-ten dying cities sometime ago. This prompted the city to come together in a rather inspired way to film a ten-minute, one-camera-shot lip-synch music video that bobs and weaves
Devon, PA.… Paul Craig Roberts reports at The American Conservative the shocking news that a Nobel-prizing-winning economist associated with the Council on Foreign Relations has demonstrated the deleterious effects of “globalizing” “Free Trade” agreements on the American economy:
To
Devon, PA.… Everyone seems to be in on, and to understand, the debate between FPR and Peter Lawler’s “postmodern conservatism” except me. I have made a few jokes and gestures in its direction, but that is because, as both Sts.
Devon, PA.… Two years ago this week, President Obama delivered the commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame. Great numbers of students, faculty, alumni, and American Catholics protested the speech in the weeks preceding it, and some Notre
Devon, PA.… Joe Carter, over at the First Things web page, offers a reflection on Ron Paul’s pro-life credentials and how they square — or rather, in Carter’s opinion, how they do not — with his libertarian and federalism
Devon, PA.… Mark T. Mitchell’s powerful essay on Jane Austen in the age of porn coincides with an interesting news item on Inside Higher Ed. A group called the Young Conservatives of Texas have helped craft legislation which would
Devon, PA.… I just received a link to a video that records the encounter of members of the TFP (The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property) with the insouciant and zealous undergraduates of Brown University.
Devon, PA.… I have just finished teaching Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America with my freshmen students. In a way I have not witnessed before, they were compelled by his account of American culture and society, and they saw in
Devon, PA.… All you who are in the Pittsburg/eastern Ohio region would be most welcome at the talking and reading I shall give this Friday at the Franciscan University of Steubenville to commemorate the publication of my first book,
