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Most of us require an extended social network to keep us mentally and morally awake, and for a laugh, too, and if these friends are people we can weave in…

Of all the Valentine legends I've heard, my favorite is the one that martyred St. Valentine because he secretly married Roman soldiers against the order of the Emperor Claudius. It…

Does the goal of maximum economic efficiency undermine other more important goods?

We have a Constitution and separation of powers and at least the idea of limited government because of the character of George Washington. Don’t think of Monday as “President’s Day.”

The President who promised change could not even change the Chairman, not even one who had failed so badly, and who continues to fail.

I get somewhat frustrated, at times, with the language of compromise, because it seems to me that if you are, in fact, acknowledging a degree of compromise with modern life,…

Could the very thing that makes our lives so easy also be that which makes it so much harder, particularly in encouraging our separation into our private retreats?

Can national pride create national blind spots?

Is happiness found in fan-dom?

Call it Factory Planet: a world in which natural processes are treated as parts of a vast world-machine operated to produce a maximum amount of wealth for humans.

It may be the great sentiment of this American moment: “I want to build something of my own. How do you not understand that?”

Both the Right and Left in American politics agree with this aim - to keep America "number one."

Natural disasters and security threats seem to beg for a response that is massive, coordinated, and centralized. If so, how can the consolidation of state power be tempered and the…

The future of the Tea Party is uncertain, but there are interesting possibilities.

Why not stand on the shoulders of the Kindle?

Lovers of snow and cold are qualitatively different from the lovers of sun and surf; they are different moral beings altogether.

My own views would fall most accurately along the continuum between anarcho-capitalist and conservative-traditionalist...

Men cut off from their origins and alienated from their selves become desperate, and desperate men do desperate deeds.

Even as he denounces the conservative justices for activism and for creating "legislation" from the bench, as well as the general conservative movement for a "double standard without apology" .…

Here’s a sign of the times: if you’re worried about what all these digital and internet technologies are going to do to books, you can join a movement to signal…

Let's just go all the way, folks.

We have for so long asserted that we are a force for good in the world and that our efforts are in the service of "democracy" that we can no…

Education should be a reason to come back.

Doubtless he is a proud example of a high-level commitment and an educational system that aims to produce deracinated, placeless individuals.