Articles Archive

A friend sent me the other day two issues of a little journal called The Publican of Philadelphia. Since I am forever worried that the Porch's ongoing what-to-do conversation gravitates…

Practical suggestions from a practical reader. Thoughts?

The rise and fall of Tiger Woods leads to a brief meditation both on beauty and virtue.

In case you weren't able to be there.

The ideology of free trade and managed society continues to destroy the prospects of a prosperous American in the Twenty-First Century. Let us dig down and return to the one…

My latest at "The American Conservative"

And what is the CLEW, you may ask? It is the Cost of Living Extremely Well, which measures such essential items as the price rise in Beluga caviar or a…

It takes a village - to keep the Feds at bay.

David Brooks offers an unstinting positive assessment of Phillip Blond's alternative to the current Left/Right alignment.

Obama would like a health care plan that is academically approved, but not publicly. Any wonder it still hasn't passed?

News from the provinces is hardly all bad.

To fill it out or not. That is the question.

JEFFERSON COUNTY, KANSAS. It's been seventy years since John Steuart Curry unveiled his masterpiece murals on the walls of the Kansas State House.  Their anarchic depiction of my home land…

Matthew J. Milliner explicates "Art and Beauty," while Dana Gioia wins Notre Dame's Laetare Medal

A woman head coach of a boy's high school football team robs the players of a male role model and diminishes the bonds of male camaraderie.

With stops in Dallas and Philadelphia. The City of Brotherly Love should beware - I'll be there the same evening as Peters, who will be lecturing at Villanova. Riot police…

. . . we rediscovered the meaning of Place. Limits. Liberty.

This term gets used too much. Whenever you are exiled to a curriculum committee run as fast as if you were asked to serve on a tax-cutting committee run by…

Phillip Blond to lecture in Washington D.C and Philadelphia - thanks to FPR

The recent anti-empire, anti-war conference in DC could be the start of a significant Left-and-Right movement to challenge the foundation of U.S. foreign policy. An across-the-spectrum coalition has great potential…

Will raising the legal dropout age teach troubled kids anything? Probably not.

Derbyshire in the latest TAC: [H]ere are the Tea Partiers vowing to “take back America.” Is there any real prospect of their doing so? If the “time left for us…

The problem is that public schools inherit children who are "overentertained and distracted."