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The American economy has been marked by a tremendous concentration of private power over the past 50 years. The only question is not whether this should be reversed, but how…

Yes, a good dinner conversation is akin to chimps licking fleas off each other because it is a way of bonding and establishing relationships and hierarchies within the group.

For years, two-faced Republican demagogues have served up phony-baloney about how much they love little country churches, Norman Rockwell paintings, and old-fashioned American life, even while they were simultaneously encouraging…

What we need today is not a generation that is “spiritual, not religious.” I would argue that what is needed is the studied capacity to be “religious, not spiritual."

The attorney representing four of the Americans who were being held in Haiti on kidnapping charges is FPR's Caleb Stegall.

Obama's energy initiatives offer little change, and less hope. Large nuclear plants with massive power grids are no solution.

David Brooks on the meritocracy: good critique, bad conclusion.

Less happy for mother is the reality that the single soul, resulting from this communion of two bodies, receives nourishment from single-malt.

Whatever else you make of Facebook friendship, it underscores the great and significant discrepancy between: 1) the scale of contemporary life, and 2) the scale of friendship.

Is there a place for friendship in politics? According to ancient theory - one that continued well into modern times - not only should friendship be a main aim of…

"Memory and imagination, as Vico says in the New Science, are closely connected to ingenuity (in Italian, ingegno; in Latin, ingenium) as the power to form hypotheses in science and…

Beans, Bibles, and bullets seem to be the watchwords of some members of the Tea Party movement. Are their fears legitimate?

With friends like this, you can have a world full of enemies at your back and it don't matter because your friend is your fortress.

A photographic essay depicting a week's worth of food consumed by families in various societies.

As the half-savage neighbor in Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” says, “Good fences make good neighbors.”

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?