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Rod Dreher likes the iPad. What does that say about progress?

Noah Millman says blame the money, and he's right.

I can’t seem to get the Orwellian thought of a “National Department of Bigness” out of my head – where everything is kept small and local…except the Department.

In 2007, we bought a house and moved to Greenville, North Carolina. Here, I recall the first rough day of home ownership, topped off by John Wayne and cold wine.

Making the case for nuclear power. Since everyone else is.

Ross Douthat reflects on the way in which globalization, the mass media, and participatory democracy make local control so difficult to maintain.

Why "Great Books" curricula aren't all they're cracked up to be.

My review of Jason Kelly's entertaining account of George Babbitt as boxing promoter, Shelby's Folly, is in today's Wall Street Journal.

Paul J. Cella III argues that the financial crisis was the result of a modern mindset committed to rationalism and abstraction.

Ralph Nader recently spoke at a university in the Heart of Dixie. We tried to build some bridges.

Now that GM stands for “Government Motors” who can love a Chevy? In many ways, seat belt laws paved the way for this transformation. Government straps me in, government keeps…

For our readers in the Oakland area, who have nothing in particular to do next Saturday, I will be speaking at the Manhattan Forum at St. Margaret Mary Church, 1219…

Now that the admission of blogger taint is clearly in the open, one may as well produce one's own list of most influential books.

Fr. Michael Orsi reviews Kauffman's Luther Martin, and finds wisdom therein.

It is no wonder that we fallen mortals would drive a heavy spike through the opened hands of Christ, bloodily impaling him atop the rocky pate of Golgotha.

Recent addresses by erstwhile abortion advocates demonstrates some basic incoherencies.

Perhaps out of these fissures and the current populist turmoil, someone might be able to craft a new, more coherent, and more promising Christian and Democratic coalition.

I love to go in the capricious days of April and hunt violets.

This thesis has the benefit of describing a coherent and understandable affinity between and among my favorite American thinkers, writers, and statesmen.

It is time to consider what the latest uproar against Pope Benedict XVI and the Catholic Church tells us about the state of our society. It is an ugly truth:…

Can I gloat?

The hidden connection between our two academic orthodoxies - post-modernism and scientific research.

If your religion--or at least your concept of the moral norms of the civil order--lacks a notion of grace, it therefore also lacks a notion of gifts; all it can…

"Four Verse Letters" has just appeared from the Franciscan University at Steubenville Press.