You must change your life.
Writers & Poets
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…
Burned-Over District, NY…—I’m reading Charles J. Shields’s absorbing new biography of Kurt Vonnegut, And So It Goes, and while its morose subject deservedly never won Father or Husband of the Year, he was rather more complicated than his scatological
Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles.
And what a life, dying though it be!
I would submit that the new conception of rationality we need is really the old one, the humanist one.
That is strict theology, but it’s unusual to find an agnostic believing in it.
[Cross-posted to In Medias Res]
Wichita, KS…
I don’t know how many people in the conservative public sphere read George F. Will closely any longer–maybe lots of them do, but as I don’t particularly identify myself with that sphere, I
[Cross-posted to In Medias Res]
Wichita, KS…
A couple of weeks ago some fine intellectuals, political figures, journalists, and activists associated with this blog gathered together to talk about localism, and specifically how one might discover in our local communities
Finding even a sight line out of doors without buildings, pavement, people, is a task.
Alexandria, VA … On Monday night of this week, New York Times columnist David Brooks spoke at Georgetown University at the invitation of the program that I founded and direct, “The Tocqueville Forum on the Roots of American Democracy.” A large
But are we or should we ever be emancipated from “the limitations of local circumstance”?
Springsteen’s music does indeed return to the things that are most important in an hour of crisis. But contrary to popular impressions, these things turn out to have very little to do with politics. They have everything to do with the humane values of tradition: love of family, friends, neighbors, and place.
This is Part II of a III Part series on C.S. Lewis and Statism. The series originally appeared at theIndependent Institute. See Part I here and Part II here.
Collectivism and Statism…
Lewis consequently drew a clear distinction between the reality
This is Part II of a III Part series on C.S. Lewis and Statism. The series originally appeared at theIndependent Institute. See Part I here and Part III here.
Moral Relativism and Utilitarianism…
Of central importance in Lewis’s discussion of
This is Part I of a III Part series on C.S. Lewis and Statism. The series originally appeared at the Independent Institute. See part II here and part III here.
For decades, many Christians and non-Christians, both “conservative” and “liberal,”…
