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		<title>It&#8217;s a Boy! It&#8217;s a Girl! It&#8217;s a Technology-Enabled &#8220;Sex Party&#8221;!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How do we explain a culture that tells children that sex doesn’t matter much, that “girls can do anything boys can do,” and at the same moment is treating the sex of infants in the womb as a critical, determining fact?]]></description>
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		<title>Art and the Motion of the Soul</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ I would have us capable of being moved by art, and then of moving <em>because </em>of it.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2010/09/art-and-the-motion-of-the-soul/</link>
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		<title>Stephen Hawking Proves the Existence of God</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Obfuscating language and philosophical ignorance do not prevent Hawking from suggesting that modern physics confirms Christian cosmology.  Nature really does conform to uncreated law.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2010/09/stephen-hawking-proves-the-existence-of-god-2/</link>
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		<title>FPR in the Flesh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We hope to connect FPR readers with one another (and with some of our authors) sans pixels or gigabytes.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2010/09/in-the-flesh/</link>
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		<title>The Latest and Greatest: Just Another Brick in the Wall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Computers are not The Answer to creating better students. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2010/09/the-latest-and-greatest-just-another-brick-in-the-wall/</link>
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		<title>Democracy as Spectacle: The Messianic Compulsions of our Republic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Americans do not need a Messiah because this nation is not Heaven on Earth.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2010/09/democracy-as-spectacle-the-messianic-compulsions-of-our-republic/</link>
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		<title>And whaddaya get?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My review of Hardy Green&#8217;s The Company Town is in today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal.

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		<link>http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2010/09/and-whaddaya-get/</link>
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		<title>Technique and Food: Why our Local Food System does not Feed Us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are the local puzzle pieces that we somehow need to fit together: great farms; committed, hard working farmers; a university of world class researchers; a highly participatory local political system; obesity; unemployment; lack of food processing capacity; plentiful fresh food that doesn't reach our plates; farmers going out of business; and fundraisers to buy farmland that people can't farm.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2010/09/technique-and-food-why-our-local-food-system-does-not-feed-us/</link>
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		<title>In NYC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I will be in New York City on October 6-7.  For details, see here.  If anyone is in the area and wants to attend events or plan an FPR event of your own, let me know.
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		<link>http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2010/09/in-nyc/</link>
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		<title>O Summer!  O Saturday!  O Barbequed Chicken!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I kick her out of doors with an amorous foot applied to a splendid bottom.  What a lucky foot!
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		<link>http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2010/08/o-summer-o-saturday-o-barbequed-chicken/</link>
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		<title>Allan Bloom and Homogenizing Nature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is the purpose of education? ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2010/08/allan-bloom-and-homogenizing-nature/</link>
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		<title>Where Are All the Grownups?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why is it taking so long for Americans to become “real” grown-ups?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2010/08/where-are-all-the-grownups/</link>
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		<title>Pedestrian Diarist: Life without Car(s)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know what Jesus would do: hate the car, love the car driver.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2010/08/pedestrian-diarist-life-without-cars/</link>
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		<title>Neo-Feudalism and the Invisible Fist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So how did we get to a situation where the “freedom of markets” has come to mean “servility” and corporate control? ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2010/08/neo-feudalism-and-the-invisible-fist/</link>
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		<title>Breaking News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The so-called &#8220;wise men&#8221; of Michael Gerson and David Brooks&#8217;s imagination don&#8217;t exist.  And the same could be said of the super experts that supposedly run things in our financial regulatory bureaucracy, food safety and consumer protection bureaucracy, or any other middling&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2010/08/breaking-news/</link>
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		<title>Calling All Girardians</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This story (and the broader phenomena it represents which would include everything from the explosion of reality TV to Facebook) illustrates what appears to be fertile new ground for Girardian inquiry into the new forms of mimetic desire and scapegoating that&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2010/08/calling-all-girardians/</link>
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		<title>Community &amp; Language</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Their language is hopeful and would be recognizable to any tobacco farmer of the last hundred years.  But now they are talking about food.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2010/08/community-language/</link>
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		<title>Porch Banter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Gerson's column this morning seems a likely candidate to spur some friendly discussion on the Porch. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2010/08/porch-banter/</link>
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