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News Flash: Brooks criticizes suburbia.

CLS vs. Martinez is part of a long-term effort to eviscerate all fundamental human associations. Only the radical individual and global state are regarded as legitimate.

Dana Gioia's brief but worthy address at Notre Dame.

No one was barred from the conversation back when there was a conversation. No dispatch ever read, “Wingnut Henry David Thoreau today issued a manifesto from his compound near Walden…

Whenever I hear someone claim that “our enemies hate us for our freedom,” I think first of the USS Vincennes and July 3rd, 1988. Twenty-two years ago today, Vincennes was…

The prevailing model of local voting has deep defects, which often work against strong communities. The modern standard is one person, one vote, one place. While this standard is simple,…

I prefer the waiter at Galatoire’s who told us to avoid the trout because it wasn’t very good that day. That’s useful information. But it’s simply impossible to imagine a…

This spring, Joel Salatin spoke at Patrick Henry College on "Food: The Cornerstone of Christian Credibility." I'm happy to be able to make an audio recording of this lecture available…

That some "progressives" may be conservatives, while most "conservatives" are actually progressives.

In a wonderful little essay on Calvin Coolidge (Calvin Coolidge: Puritanism de Luxe) written in 1926, Walter Lippmann described the president as having mastered the “technique of anti-propaganda” by sapping…

I hope that a Porcher will react at length to today's dispiriting, but not too surprising, Supreme Court ruling in CLS v. Martinez, which upheld a public institution's -- the…

I was just a boy with spindly limbs and boney knees, but I knew the importance of stories, so I sat with my grandparents on the porch, and drank sweet…

Wendell Berry explains his break with the University of Kentucky.

Over on the hip lefty Sojourner's blog, Chris Rice douses the fires of American sin with the holy waters of sanctimony in an entry ominously and alliteratively titled: "The War, the Well, and…

If you love place, limits, liberty, and think they are words that have meaning, you are probably conservative, and should honor that word also.

Jayber seemed like a good name for this bald, homeless bird.

What a trifling thing it is to control man! How easily we believe in fairy tales when they come cloaked in the black box of authority and superior knowledge.

My review of Eric Jaffe's The King's Best Highway is in today's Wall Street Journal.

Nostalgia is, therefore, an index of alienation, communal decrepitude, and, at high levels, cultural patricide.

Progressives must re-learn to advocate for community self-determination, and work to link political activity on this level to national politics.

A scholar suggests that Phillip Blond's Red Toryism is just another word for conventional conservatism. He may be right about Blond, but he's definitely not about the idea.

Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn? Harry Potter and Ron Weasley? Anne Shirley and Diana Barry? Disruptive elements, all of them.

Tea party populism gets its marching orders from Republican leaders in Washington D.C., while Obama pretends to seeth.

I have a long history with the sour cherry. Here is some of it.