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Next time your kids ask you to tell them a scary story, show them this slide show.  Only I imagine this one will be keeping the parents awake at night.

“It enabled us to create our own vision for the future. That was the way I look at it then and now.” I guess part of that “vision” was Tammany…

It is time to reopen the questions about human nature, about human autonomy, about the desirability self-creation. Liberals should, in brief, broaden their horizons to ponder competing views of human…

Our military is off defending Afghanistan and Iraq from themselves while our Financial Titans are rescued to live another day of utterly neglecting the welfare of the Republic.

Long time friend of FPR, Michael Brendan Dougherty, has a new blog.  Go read it. On why his blog has no comments: "They boost traffic and make people feel they…

Whether left or right, the ethical education of those we send to fight should concern us all.

Tradition supposedly bears the thumbprints of Roman patricians with browbeaten wives or frustrated monks who shivered in mediæval abbeys.

Keeping alive a print vehicle for independent, thoughtful conservatism depends on us.

Yesterday's ruling in the Arizona immigration law matter by Federal District Judge Susan Bolton is reverberating around the internet today.  Most of the heat is generated by the substantive policy…

Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Birthmark" provides a springboard for reflecting on the problems of scientism, especially the temptation to self-deification and, what Eric Voegelin terms, modern Gnosticism.

In which Bill Kauffman bids a hopeful aloha to the American Imperium.

Or, "Can you hear me in the back? Why don't we all move in a little closer..." My latest column in the absolutely essential American Conservative: http://www.amconmag.com/blog/the-loneliness-of-the-long-dissonant-reader/.

If your doctor had this same track record of diagnosing and treating disease, you’d be dead by now.

Could it be that there is a growing awareness that work--labor that actually results in something of value--and honesty are virtues worth preserving?

Look around and you’ll see that the seeds planted by the New Left have not all fallen on hard ground. I think maybe they’re ready to flower.

One of the key flashpoints over the identity of the Church has been the notion of inclusivity. When my church-related school redid its mission statement a couple of years ago,…

Might Steinbrenner be to professional baseball what an agribusiness is to farming?

Big Questions Online makes its appearance.

Today most symbols are gone, and gone with them is the sense of community cohesiveness that they used to communicate.

Though he had passionately opposed Hitler from the very beginning and had striven to protect the helpless from the SS, neither Americans nor English shed many tears for Moltke when…

If all groups were forced to comply with the anti-discrimination policies of the federal government, conceivably churches could not exclude unbelievers, wine clubs would have to be open to tee-totalers,…

Our conception of nature is too thin, too reliant upon the conceptions of the ancient Stoics, and so requires the more robust visions of Aristotle and Aquinas if moral debate…

Due to the vagaries of the weather and the incompetence and indifference of Delta Airlines, I found myself homeless in New York City for 24 hours. Although the airline caused…