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Then it’s a bit up to you to be jolly crusty and jolly full of hell-fire and sin and damnation.

In which "culture" is distinguished from our contemporary "anti-culture."

I don't look to any of the MSM for enlightenment, but you can find curious cultural touchstones from Time to time, the former of which has released its list of…

The idea that the best way to reform government is to simply say "No!" is probably a bad idea...but for the TSA, I'll make an exception.

Modern science has given us modern miracles, like iPhones and atom bombs and Chrysler cars, but has not given us the wisdom to use them.

The book does a great service in dismantling economic shibboleths about trade, money, labor, and markets, and then reconstructing them along different premises that conform with both human happiness and…

Where else can one find such a wide ranging, wise, witty, and downright winsome collection of thinkers and writers in one tactile, fold-over-double, take-to-the-porcelain-throne, nap-with-on-the-couch, 100-percent-carpal-tunnel-free place?

There are still some enterprising farm kids around, making a good business out of your need to eat.

Will I die here? I don't know. I have tried living away from here and it does not work.

What's left? The overschooled and the underschooled, both of them unusually dependent upon government largesse, or upon government largeness.

It should help open the ‘closed shop’ of economic theory to a potentially rich and fruitful debate.

Jesse Walker of Reason is bummed that Russ Feingold lost: http://reason.com/blog/2010/11/03/a-farewell-to-feingold. So am I.

     The dank and drear of Election Day and its hangover were dispelled by the appearance in my mailbox of books from two most admirable friends.      John Rezelman—poet, wit,…

William Gilmore Simms’ claims about the decay of morals and the arts that results from the rise of scientism and decline of supernaturalism can be elaborated by reflecting on the…

Michael Kinsley amps up Patrick's "false choice" rhetoric.

Where does that leave us? With the difficult job of recovering the sturdy Jeffersonian virtues of the freeman—virtues of thrift, being rooted in one’s place, hard work, pride of ownership,…

The turning of the plow in the dark fields and the turning of verses on a white field of paper are more than etymologically related.

Krugman beats the drums for more debt.

The election offers us false choices - again.

At last, true localist and traditional voice from the land of Ron Paul and George Bush.

What does it mean to be a Kentuckian, or a Kentucky senator? Does place have any place in a national election?

There's a deep and revealing purpose to figuring out if you're an elitist or not, though I'm not sure this quiz actually gets at it.

FPR is the future.

Our region became, unwittingly, the domestic front of what is now surely a global energy war.