“Here’s a couple of things America got right – cars and freedom.”

A riff on Thomas Frank’s thesis in “What’s the Matter With Kansas?,” asking why wealthy voters in Blue States like Connecticut have been apparently voting against their economic interests by electing higher-taxing Democrats

Bryan Caplan ignores the role religious belief plays in fertility rates.

News Flash: Brooks criticizes suburbia.

CLS vs. Martinez is part of a long-term effort to eviscerate all fundamental human associations. Only the radical individual and global state are regarded as legitimate.

That some “progressives” may be conservatives, while most “conservatives” are actually progressives.

Wendell Berry explains his break with the University of Kentucky.

Tea party populism gets its marching orders from Republican leaders in Washington D.C., while Obama pretends to seeth.

The economy is on the mend, if indicators of increasing quantities of garbage and waste are to be trusted. Economists celebrate our return to growth.

Over the weekend I picked up a book with a promising title: “Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture.” It helps chart a path to a promising coalition between new feminists and traditionalists.

We are trapped in the deepest imaginable form of incoherence: we call for more control over the consequences of mastery, yet vaguely recognize that this very response is the source of our deepest troubles.

Legendary investor Seth Klaman on how the government has taught everyone a bad lesson.

It turns out locally-produced food is not only good for the body, but the spirit – especially the human capacity to intuit the sanctity of the world.

The Cato Institute sponsors a symposium on Philip Blond, with a lead essay by yours truly.

Is there really any limit to political consolidation, when the very effects of that consolidation ensure the creation of even larger economic, military, and other crises that require more expansive consolidation?

“Solving for Pattern” means making connections between seemingly separate crises – such as those taking place in Greece and the Gulf of Mexico, ones that are both born of our collective incapacity to live within our means.

Mr. Wendell Berry of Kentucky will be in the Greater D.C. area this week, appearing at the Arlington Central Library Auditorium on Tuesday, May 4 at 7 p.m. Come early!

On the threshold between two unchosen ways of life – one of commitments, the other of choices. Both give rise to discontents, but ours today makes them a way of life.