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If there’s one thing we have in higher education today it’s a superfluity of bluster.

Peace is a Jinn. It is that thing we are always in search of, but never enough to forget our accumulated envious resentments of those who are not like us.

Planting a greener Green Revolution.

Those so blessed by the Good Lord as to be within hailing (or driving) distance of Batavia, New York, might want to drop by the Pokadot diner tonight at 8…

Does food have a context of time and place?, or, How to make your own sausage.

See an FPR author in a venue near you.

Harry Reid's election in Nevada is all about an argument over the direction of the American system. Would that we could argue about the nature of that system instead.

It may turn out that both intellectual development and the pursuit of filthy lucre are best pursued without the millstone of a college degree (and the debts, both monetary and…

Does the risk-free security of a screen hamper the development of real friendships?

Not with a bang, but a whimper . . .

Or, Domestic policy is the only policy.

Momma don't let your babies grow up to be campaign managers.

Because the rent is too damn high!

It's not "climate change" per se that arouses opposition from the heartland, but rather it is that these issues are stand-ins for and advanced by command and control methods wielded…

Some ruling classes in history, more than others, deserve pitchforks.

Without proper accounting, there can be neither honest pricing nor clean water.

A "senior stateman" avows ignorance of Leviathan.

Events may soon conspire to force a conversation about the common good and the limits of power. Until that happens, gridlock may be the best option.

In today’s Los Angeles Times, Neil Gabler has an insightful piece on the way in which the “gang of friends” has become the dominant social group on American television.

The great '60s-'70s R&B singer General Johnson has died. The pacific General wrote the antiwar and pro-home anthem "Bring the Boys Home"

A new book provides profiles of seminal conservative thinkers. But Lord, please, please don't read them through the outdated narrative of traditional cons, neocons, and laissez-faire cons.

Writing at Public Discourse (of which I am the managing editor), Hadley Arkes criticizes conservatives and liberals and defends the notion that communities can define standards of speech. Balancing individual…

On the banks of a river, but can't get a drink.

I am not convinced that the Austrian School doesn't have the better argument, but the distributists bring a vital perspective and there is probably no better place to start hearing…