Holland, MI…
The recent dispute between Joe Carter over at First Things and various occupants of the Porch has already received a good deal of attention, but also demonstrated a regrettable level of talking past one another. This, in no
You must change your life.
David Brooks weighs in on the latest data regarding marriage. The poor man. I know of no one who is more tied in knots over contemporary notions of autonomy than is Brooks.…
Whew!
Allow me to take off my reporter hat for just one minute and put on my opinion columnist cap.
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been worried for some time that no one — especially no conservatives, and…
Along with the recent debate over contraceptive coverage, it is clear that not only has sex permeated our politics and cultural life (Kristof couldn’t be more disingenuous), but it has also become completely dissociated from conceptions of human flourishing, relegated…
FPR readers will be interested in Thaddeus Kozinski’s critique of using Lockean Liberalism to counter the Obama Administration’s new controversial birth control mandates.…
I was invited by the good people at “Minding the Campus” to write a response to the recently released 2011 American Freshman Survey. My brief essay is now available on their website, and might be of some interest to FPR…
Devon, PA.… A few years ago, Jason Peters swore Learical revenges on me for reprinting a poem of mine on the debauchery of Michigan State students. He could not understand how I could find subject for drollery in a
I was delighted to see that Thomas Mallon, a superb novelist whose subject is often American politics (my favorites are Henry and Clara and Two Moons), has just published Watergate: A Novel. I shall order forthwith. (This link is to…
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