Month: July 2011

  • July 18, 2011
    In a recent piece in The Weekly Standard, Adam J. White argues that Samuel Alito is a Burkean conservative. By…
  • July 18, 2011
    Like the football coach whose pep talks wear thin, a President who turns every cause into a holy one, every…
  • July 14, 2011
    Here's an interesting essay arguing that the rise of divorce rates among the elderly is due to Facebook and other…
  • July 14, 2011
    In this hitherto unpublished 1995 lecture, Wilson Carey McWilliams sought to persuade a conservative audience (at the University of Dallas)…
  • July 12, 2011
    What ironies of fate converged that morning, such that a mob was about to come out on a march against…
  • July 11, 2011
    Alexandria, VA In the wake of the "not guilty" finding in the Casey Anthony trial, large numbers of outraged individuals…
  • July 11, 2011
    The habit of questioning, of civil debate, of negotiating, and compromise are the habits necessary for a thriving democracy.
  • July 9, 2011
    Mecosta, MI.  A FPR reader has written a fine essay dilating on a theme introduced in my own most recent…
  • July 8, 2011
    With three children raised and fledged, we managed to avoid their seductive pox and the kids are actually grateful for…
  • July 8, 2011
    you happen to live in western Michigan, and don’t have any plans for this Saturday, you may be interested in…
  • July 7, 2011
    This lecture by Wilson Carey McWilliams was delivered at St. John's College in New Mexico on April 1, 1995. It…
  • July 5, 2011
    So say the signers (including four Front Porch-sitters) of this letter (www.comehomeamerica.us) from the nascent antiwar group Come Home, America. The…