Articles Archive
Who Would be Out of Work?
What's left? The overschooled and the underschooled, both of them unusually dependent upon government largesse, or upon government largeness.
Commentary on John Medaille’s Toward a Truly Free Market
It should help open the ‘closed shop’ of economic theory to a potentially rich and fruitful debate.
Half a LaFollette’s Better than None
Jesse Walker of Reason is bummed that Russ Feingold lost: http://reason.com/blog/2010/11/03/a-farewell-to-feingold. So am I.
Flowers (Potatoes?) in November? The Southern Tier Efflorescence
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,…
Rising Scientism, Declining Supernaturalism, and the Loss of Taste and Morals in W.G. Simms’ “Grayling”
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…
The Infinitesimal Fraction, or, the Swindle of Consent
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,…
Conservative Prosody
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.
Talkin’ Pauken
At last, true localist and traditional voice from the land of Ron Paul and George Bush.
Rootedness & Rand Paul
What does it mean to be a Kentuckian, or a Kentucky senator? Does place have any place in a national election?
As for Myself, I’m Less Than 30% Elitist (How About You?)
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.
A Requirement for Respect
Our region became, unwittingly, the domestic front of what is now surely a global energy war.
Handing Higher Ed to the Cripples: On John Williams’s “Stoner”
If there’s one thing we have in higher education today it’s a superfluity of bluster.
Peace: A Word that Shanghais us on our Road to Emmaus
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.
Gardnering at Night
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…
Sausage Time Machine
Does food have a context of time and place?, or, How to make your own sausage.
Pay Attention to Appearances
See an FPR author in a venue near you.
As Goes Reid, So Goes America (Maybe, Unfortunately)
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.
Peter Thiel
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…
Facebook and Friendship
Does the risk-free security of a screen hamper the development of real friendships?
