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The so-called "wise men" of Michael Gerson and David Brooks's imagination don't exist.  And the same could be said of the super experts that supposedly run things in our financial…

This story (and the broader phenomena it represents which would include everything from the explosion of reality TV to Facebook) illustrates what appears to be fertile new ground for Girardian inquiry…

Their language is hopeful and would be recognizable to any tobacco farmer of the last hundred years. But now they are talking about food.

Michael Gerson's column this morning seems a likely candidate to spur some friendly discussion on the Porch.

Another Tea Party candidate appears set to make political waves by unseating an establishment figure by running a rag-tag minuteman-type campaign.

I people really want to see the current state of the union, they need to take a look at my favorite part of Liberty State Park, which is the fact…

The options: A decentralized food system or a centralized regulatory system backed by the power of the state.

Human nature, innate human longings, human biology, and human history are all on your side.

Raise a glass of dandelion wine to the dreamy kid from Waukegan, Illinois, who today becomes a nonagenarian. Herewith my appreciation of Bradbury from a while back: https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/06/ray-bradbury-of-illinois/

Can the blight of modern reductive thinking and living be overcome by humanistic education? Newman thought so; so does Villanova.

But not to be missed in this story is the recognition that no matter how much the government wants to empower and affirm everyone equally, you cannot fool the American…

Was Nisbet wrong about the quest for community?

It is characteristic of the tyrant, however, that he thinks he can get away with lies in the sense that no one will contradict them even when his statements are…

Angelo Codevilla gives us an excellent diagnosis of the problem. The cure is not explained.

Do you ever long for the place of your childhood? Does it still exist?

"Here's a couple of things America got right - cars and freedom."

Gossip, under the right circumstances, acts as a virtue which demonstrates concern and thickens social ties.

Toward a Truly Free Market: A Distributist Perspective on the Role of Government, Taxes, Health Care, Deficits, and More

My review of Howard Mansfield's Turn & Jump is in today's Wall Street Journal.

Civilization rests upon the sacred. Thus it is as grimly appropriate that the first atom bomb test was sacrilegiously codenamed “Trinity” – as in *the* Trinity – as it is…

Going to the gym? Call a friend. Running an errand? Send a text. Eating something interesting? Take a picture and show the world on Facebook.

This year the House has come together to support national pollinator week, national dairy month, and national train day.

Today, there are no socially prescribed forms of conduct that help guide young men and women in the direction of matrimony.

Economics has become a totalizing system claiming the power to explain all things. It is as much a religious system—by another name—as is Berry's Great Economy.