Articles Archive

My latest column from the American Conservative: http://www.amconmag.com/blog/slogans-heroes.

A reflection on Constitution as regime, by the late Wilson Carey McWilliams

Is being Number One all it's cracked up to be?

"Fear and pity are made out of grammar,” he writes, and in this most particular grammatical unit he finds the fabric of tragedy itself.

From The American Conservative, Reason's Jesse Walker on Nicholas von Hoffman's Saul Alinsky.

Bicycling is fun, and environmentally friendly, but for me at least, it is even more importantly about being as free as possible from the complicated dependencies which the automobile economy…

In many ways, the Los Angeles County Fair is not so different from county fairs all over the country ... except for its agricultural exhibit.

Many a time, I have seen my friend doting on his little seven-year-old half brother, picking him up from school, cooking for him, and keeping his classmates’ junk food at…

The Ninth Anniversary of 9/11/01; Three Squared Equals Zero in the New American Math.

Is being an American worth it?

Can modern Islam countenance freedom of religion and expression? This is one of the great questions of our time.

My good friend and sturdy Kansas patriot Tony Woodlief writes about the best State Fair around in today's Wall Street Journal.

How do we explain a culture that tells children that sex doesn’t matter much, that “girls can do anything boys can do,” and at the same moment is treating the…

Obfuscating language and philosophical ignorance do not prevent Hawking from suggesting that modern physics confirms Christian cosmology. Nature really does conform to uncreated law.

We hope to connect FPR readers with one another (and with some of our authors) sans pixels or gigabytes.

Computers are not The Answer to creating better students.

Americans do not need a Messiah because this nation is not Heaven on Earth.

My review of Hardy Green's The Company Town is in today's Wall Street Journal.

Here are the local puzzle pieces that we somehow need to fit together: great farms; committed, hard working farmers; a university of world class researchers; a highly participatory local political…

I will be in New York City on October 6-7.  For details, see here.  If anyone is in the area and wants to attend events or plan an FPR event…

What is the purpose of education?

Why is it taking so long for Americans to become “real” grown-ups?

I know what Jesus would do: hate the car, love the car driver.

So how did we get to a situation where the “freedom of markets” has come to mean “servility” and corporate control?