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One has a free choice of whether to take one's cocaine in crystal or powdered form. However, while this may be a free choice, it is never a choice of…

A story from the Chicago Tribune tells of an enterprising mother named Kris Swanberg, who runs a wildly successful ice cream business. Of course, where food is concerned, the State…

Freedom Requires Restraint

Devon, PA.  I am pleased to report that FPR will once again hold a roundtable discussion at the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture's 2011 Conference ,which runs 10-12…

Looting as the psycho-spiritual symbol of the welfare age: "But it’s more than childish destructiveness motivating the rioters. At a more fundamental level, these are youngsters who are uniquely alienated…

It was a dark and stormy night when I first met Peter Stanlis. The year was 2000. I had recently become senior editor at ISI Books, and he had just…

Devon, PA. R.R. Reno writes on the First Things website this morning, I’m no libertarian. St. Paul was clear that government is ordained by God, and St. Thomas helps us…

I'm not even sure how to comment on this story. I have written previously on how modern golf course design takes a backseat to that of the "Golden Age" of…

A proper remembering requires more than telling the facts or chronicling the plunder, rape, murder in Nanking; it requires that one explain the event.

Peter has already mentioned the short-course being offered on Confederational Political Thought. Porchers and fellow-travelers might also be interested in checking out the morning course of "Republicanism and Virtue," also…

Our hero, Harry, demonstrates an attitude towards death that very few of us actually hold.

The vacation, far from being a treatment for a serious illness, is instead a symptom of it.

While I do not regard myself as a "tea-partier" (indeed, I'm not even sure I know what one is), my own sense is that the House Republicans have operated throughout…

The stones strapped to the back of the city dweller, along with the thick tension of the silence of the state, explains why most city conversations fall on the opposite…

Overall, the key corrolations are clear: functional families are strong and large; strong and large families are function-rich.

If Pico and the alchemists are read carefully, one begins to understand the modern obsession with space exploration, cloning, and the creation of life.

(What follows is the text of the remarks that I delivered at the recently concluded I.S.I. Honors Program. The conference was entitled "The Language of Liberty"). Fells Point, Baltimore.  A…

But that is not so with computers, for no matter how many doctorates one holds in computer science, at some point the system disappears into a world of magic.

Perhaps the tension will be useful when it comes time to make something of what is. Just be sure you make it in a place called home.

"The Geek Squad" has put out a back-to-school advertisement which argues that technology will "make school easier" - mostly by making sure you are always entertained and don't have to…

In Bingo-land it is not appropriate to talk about yourself until you have found some shared link. In general it is more acceptable to talk about who you are (your…

(Or, Fix Your Darn Windows)

This “summer of Hell,” to borrow Peters’ phrase, has had me in too many hospital/doctor waiting rooms. But as I was recently counting up co-pays and deductibles in my head…

If only such voices as that of Lord Maurice Glasman received a hearing in today's Democratic Party. According to this remarkable article in the Guardian, Glasman has the ear of…