…is the title of a new multi-author volume edited by Joshua J. Yates and James Davison Hunter of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. I was one of the initial reviewers of the book,…
Patrick J. Deneen
More reportage, now by Niall Ferguson, of the obviously depressing news – we are raising a nation of idiots.
Half of today’s teenagers don’t read books—except when they’re made to. According to the most recent survey by the National Endowment…
Get ready to fall off your seat. Sarah Palin, a.k.a., Flawed Vessel, recently received a bit of positive press in the New York Times. According to the Time’s Anand Giridharadas, Palin’s recent speech in Iowa seemed to show a willingness…
Tonight, September 19, FPR’s own Bill Kauffman will gird up to re-make the case of the Anti-federalists at the Tocqueville Forum‘s annual Constitution Day event. He will be debating Professor Colleen Sheehan of Villanova University, defender of the “consolidators.” It…
Alexandria, VA… September 11, 2001, we are frequently told, is the day that “changed everything.” For the 3,000 people in New York City and Washington D.C. who were killed on that blue-skied day, and for their families, that 9-11 “changed
Dreher, that is, with a new blog at The American Conservative website. Congratulations to both, and especially all of us, who have missed his voice over the past year. We’ll be working to get him to write over here on…
From Pope Benedict XVI’s Address to Young University Professors:
“Where will young people encounter those reference points in a society which is increasingly confused and unstable? At times one has the idea that the mission of a university professor nowadays…
(What follows is the text of the remarks that I delivered at the recently concluded I.S.I. Honors Program. The conference was entitled “The Language of Liberty”).
Fells Point, Baltimore … A narrative today dominates our political landscape that poses liberty
If only such voices as that of Lord Maurice Glasman received a hearing in today’s Democratic Party. According to this remarkable article in the Guardian, Glasman has the ear of Labour’s leader Ed Miliband in urging an alternative direction for…
Here’s an interesting essay arguing that the rise of divorce rates among the elderly is due to Facebook and other social media. The author, Sheri Kirschenbaum, points to data from divorce lawyers suggesting that a growing number of divorces are…
Alexandria, VA… In the wake of the “not guilty” finding in the Casey Anthony trial, large numbers of outraged individuals have begun a campaign for the creation of various State and even a Federal version of “Caylee’s Law.” In addition
One of the most unexamined terms in regular use among left Catholics today is “social justice.” Vague and often closely aligned with support for national government social programs, “social justice” often strikes me as particularly popular on those Catholic campuses…
This article describes the effort of local villages in Germany to provide their own heat through local renewable resources. And, wonderfully, it stresses that the effort combines the twin achievements of saving money and retaining local cohesion. These two aims…
Alexandria, VA… Some, perhaps many readers here will know that I learned much of what I know of political philosophy – and, much of my understanding of life – from one of the most wonderful men who has trod the
This week I have been lecturing at the Ignatianum Academy in Krakow, Poland. It has been a marvelous experience thus far, including time spent in the classroom with bright students, as well as evenings spent dining with wonderful new and…
Jeremy Grantham is paid to make people money. Among his clients is Dick Cheney, who, based on Grantham’s advice, was well-positioned before the economic collapse (as I noted at the time, Cheney had positioned his portfolio prior to 2008 in…
