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We have, until this day, indulged in our individualistic reveries, imagining that we are always free to “light out for the Territory” and leave the ills of communal life behind…

ISI sponsors an on-line discussion on the limits of liberty.

In the ancient world, Christianity put an end to cremation, and for a century it was kept in check by Christian tradition.

While Peters is peddling his technophiliac vision below, I commend this ancient Catalonian tradition for your creche (and your garden), "the Caganer."

Academic leftists and conservative critics of academe are united in a fundamental proposition, says Stanley Fish. True enough, say I: education is endless and the world is a nauseating abyss.

A splendid gift idea, especially for yourself.

But then Dylan is 69, and old enough to remember when the people of his place looked askance at empire. There were giants in the earth in those days.

From the mountaintop, the little people of this world appear very small indeed.

"Faced with the poverty, incompetence, and weak tyranny that real, existing socialism had delivered, many Poles I knew had begun a similar intellectual journey. And today, it’s the turn of…

One way to celebrate a culture of life is to cultivate our bodies in death.

Long live the King, somewhere damned else.

Save, print, drink.

While there is much work to be done and there are no guarantees of success, we don’t have to look far for the foundations upon which to build. They are…

My review of Leigh Eric Schmidt's Heaven's Bride appeared in this weekend's Wall Street Journal.

It was difficult to say whether they were on the far left or the far right or both simultaneously, but you were safe to identify them as radical, whichever political…

Ross Douthat suggests that the culture wars have moved to a different battlefield. I dissent.

My review of Les Bodnar's Carnie is in today's Wall Street Journal.

The American Constitution, as it was originally written and understood, is the most monarchical-democratic document in the modern world.

I value a writer who makes me read with a dictionary. Godspeed the man with a memory.

Listen to the fierce and mournful "Torn Screen Door" by the Scottish-Canadian singer/songwriter David Francey.

What kind of conservative takes a dim view of his country’s established institutions, feels something less than at home with its way of life as it actually lives it, and…

What is this thing we call “socialization” and why is there a perception that this is best achieved in the classroom and thwarted by homeschooling?

Caleb Stegall is a real person from a real place, a Kansas patriot and a helluva good writer. His presence enriches, enlivens, and even ennobles the front porch. I very…

A thing without proper limits becomes its own opposite, and benevolence quickly becomes a tyranny which threatens both civil and religious order.