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My review of Hardy Green’s The Company Town is in today’s Wall Street Journal.

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.

What is the purpose of education?

The so-called “wise men” of Michael Gerson and David Brooks’s imagination don’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…

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…

Michael Gerson’s column this morning seems a likely candidate to spur some friendly discussion on the Porch.

Another Tea Party candidate appears set to make political waves by unseating an establishment figure by running a rag-tag minuteman-type campaign.

The options: A decentralized food system or a centralized regulatory system backed by the power of the state.

Raise a glass of dandelion wine to the dreamy kid from Waukegan, Illinois, who today becomes a nonagenarian. Herewith my appreciation of Bradbury from a while back: http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/06/ray-bradbury-of-illinois/

Can the blight of modern reductive thinking and living be overcome by humanistic education? Newman thought so; so does Villanova.

We’re not filling the gas tank. We’re inflating a fantasy.

Was Nisbet wrong about the quest for community?

Angelo Codevilla gives us an excellent diagnosis of the problem. The cure is not explained.

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

Toward a Truly Free Market: A Distributist Perspective on the Role of Government, Taxes, Health Care, Deficits, and More

My review of Howard Mansfield’s Turn & Jump is in today’s Wall Street Journal.

Today, there are no socially prescribed forms of conduct that help guide young men and women in the direction of matrimony.