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Jersey Shore teaches us something about the tragic dimensions of the culture in which we live, and in which we raise young people.

The Reader Objects!: If God is Personal and Loving above all, if the Christian believes reason is fundamentally preceded by what is revealed in Faith, then what grounds has the…

In the American context, one could very easily call Red Tories Jeffersonians, and this is where we see the predicament for Red Toryism in the United States.

There's an honest-to-god crunchy-con candidate in the northern Wisconsin woods.

I sense a gap on FPR between NoNamers and most of the rest.

How's that for a triple play? Andrew Bacevich reviews Eric Miller's new biography of Christopher Lasch.

The less-than-majority showing by the Conservatives make it likely that any power they do achieve will come through an alliance with the least Red Tory party of them all.

"Solving for Pattern" means making connections between seemingly separate crises - such as those taking place in Greece and the Gulf of Mexico, ones that are both born of our…

Chances are that unless you’re a total financial wonk, you’ve never heard the term “seigniorage.” But you should, because doing the right thing with it could help solve several major,…

The technological fun house that is the modern home makes the great outdoors pale by comparison, if, that is, the expectation is immediate and constant bursts of electronic stimulation.

Some scientific arguments on energy use are based on data that do not take enough factors into account

Whatever the results of the British election, the Red Tory ideal remains promising...and yet, absent a robust civic religion, also probably wanting.

Social democratic states can demonstrate frugality and responsibility, too.

"“It is the single largest threat to production agriculture that we have ever seen,” said Andrew Wargo III, the president of the Arkansas Association of Conservation Districts." Farmers Cope With…

If there truly is a difference between how red states and blue states see the family, maybe it starts with how the economy and technology have changed how kids grow…

We should have been courageous, he said; we will have to face the consequences of our lack of courage, he said.

The most recent issue of The American Conservative will be of interest to folks on the Porch.

Mr. Wendell Berry of Kentucky will be in the Greater D.C. area this week, appearing at the Arlington Central Library Auditorium on Tuesday, May 4 at 7 p.m. Come early!

The explosive growth in wilderness-designated land is one of the few modern desert Southwest trends of which I heartily approve. In 1975, Arizona had several hundred thousand acres of designated…

We shouldn’t complain about socialists and charlatans in power if we’re not willing to fund alternatives. We shouldn’t bemoan the power of big money if we’re not willing to utilize…

Teaching Wendell Berry to students today isn't a thankless task, but the victories are small and far between (which, one might say, is all the best victories always are).

Military use of PowerPoint confuses even as it simplifies.

Even for the average homeowner, ownership all too often is imagined as a way of gaming income flow and consumption over a lifetime, accumulating enough to spend down before one…

In 1983, Jack Stack led a group of employees to buy-out a division of International Harvester, the Springfield Remanufacturing Company (SRC). But Stack and his associates where not just interested…