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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.

A report from the heartland.

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.

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