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I Have a Right to be Unlimited

images March 5, 2013

Hidden Springs Lane, VA…. Sprint is running a new ad pushing the merits of its data plan. While it might be a mistake to make too much of an ad, it seems appropriate to “read” them as representing the

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An Ancient Legacy of Form: Guardini on Mastery and Nearness

Ship_in_full_sail_by_Munin February 26, 2013

Our dwelling place is the state not of nature but of culture.

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Liberal Culture?

one way August 20, 2012

The word “culture” readily falls from our lips, but what appears on first glance to be a clear-cut notion becomes much more complex as soon as we attempt to define it. “Culture” is employed in a variety of ways and…

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A Lucubration Neither Lugubrious Nor Lubricious; or, A Nocturnal Upon Saint Edward Abbey

Ed-Abbey-The-Journey-Home June 12, 2012

What machine can match a pair of legs?

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New ANAMNESIS Symposium: “Views on Hawthorne, Simms, History, and Progress.”

April 16, 2012

Many FPR readers will enjoy the new symposium, “Views on Hawthorne, Simms, History, and Progress,” in ANAMNESIS, A Journal for the Study of Tradition, Place, and ‘Things Divine.’…

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Happy Birthday To Us, and Long May We Honor Our Greatest Satirist

ford-f250-gulliver-small-18214 March 7, 2012

The Reverend Dr. Swift put his Front Porch finger on several of our worst maladies.

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Creative Fidelity and Weighty People

canoeing February 9, 2012

In Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being, the character Tomas is an inveterate womanizer, a man who takes notes on the particular physical differences, however minute, of the women he seduces. He is light, and free, and must find…

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Agrarian Hypocrisy and the Evils of Distributism

New_American_Gothic January 6, 2012

One thing that has amused me in these first three years of FPR’s existence is the tendency of some readers to single out one or two articles and lament that FPR was once a promising venture but has now taken…

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One of Hercules’ Praises

professor-frink November 15, 2011

… to recover the bad Soil, and to remedy the waste that is made of good …

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David Brooks, Internationalism, and the Coaxing of America

soldier-giving-children-candy September 8, 2011

After reading David Brooks’ “The Rugged Altruists,” which romanticizes the “giving” zeal of contemporary Americans who engage in overseas missions and relief-work, one wonders about the appropriate limits for American internationalism and charity. Many of Brooks’ anecdotes about Americans who experience…

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Losing Republicanism, Inheriting Leviathan

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In “The Hollow Men,” T.S. Eliot famously predicts that Doom will come subtly, rather than dramatically: “This is the way the world ends[,] This is the way the world ends[,] This is the way the world ends[,] Not with a…

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Take the Chevy Volt. I’m Backing the Horse.

plug_in June 29, 2011

Soon the news that’s fit to print will be a luxury, like irony or finding yourself or working out your gender identity.

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Of Dullards, Whales, Frustrations, and Shirts Like Fetters

Breaching-Humpback-Whale-pictures-underwater-photos May 18, 2011

What of those who have never once thought it their duty to amuse their readers?

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Let’s Build a Dumber Planet

building-a-smarter-planet-logo-ibm April 12, 2011

There’s no future in the past.

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Of Unions, Cleavage, Oil, and Doom

end_of_world March 1, 2011

We are borrowing well over a billion dollars a day to import oil.

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Saving FPR with Jaws (And More Gooder Prose)

roy-scheider-jaws December 10, 2010

What the FPR stands for is this kind of responsibility—a placed responsibility that extends both backward and forward in time.

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