The Editors

“When a nation’s Holy-days are treated with indifference and neglect, it should be considered a sign of national degeneracy and decay.” --Walt Whitman Burned-Over District, NY. When tradition faces off…

Bread and Circuses Baay-Be!

For those of you in the vicinity of T. S. Eliot’s home town, FPR editor-at-large Allan Carlson will be speaking at Washington University in St. Louis on Thursday, October 15.…

"When small men cast long shadows, you know the sun is setting." Lao Tzu

The awarding of this year's Nobel Peace Prize on a man who has been President not even for  10 months (before that, briefly, a U.S. senator, and before that, briefly, a State…

A missive has gone out across the land and globe from the Director of the American Political Science Association urgently alerting members of the Association that Senator Coburn (R-OK) has…

A colleague directed me to a blog written by a leftist friend of mine—someone whose views on everything from metaphysics to politics are radically different from my own.  We have…

Over at "Inside Catholic," one of their stable of writers, Eric Pavlet, expresses excitement in discovering thoughts on economics that eschew the contemporary statism vs. free market debate.  FPR even…

JEFFERSON COUNTY, KANSAS. October is here, the chill wind blows, leaves are on the ground, so it must be time to talk about ghosts.  This essay first appeared in the…

Washington, Connecticut. The urge, some might say mania with which our species has attempted to distance itself from Nature is a defining occupation and it appears to be quickening in…

BURNED-OVER DISTRICT, NY---Via the Batavia Daily News, Tom Gahr's lovely essay on walking in Batavia: http://thedailynewsonline.com/articles/2009/10/03/opinion/letters/5993934.txt

My new book is an anthology of writings on economic liberty. Unfortunately, I'm not actually able to read the published edition, since it is in Romanian. My co-editor, Dr. Ovidiu…

Claremont, CA. On the flight home, I read an issue of Delta Sky Magazine that listed the Panama Canal as one of “70 Wonders of the World.” The canal was…

Moorpark, CA.  The first time is not always the best, but it is often the most revealing.  The first time I saw Casablanca I brought a borrowed memory of seeing…

Having found fault with Dr. Iliff's admirable efforts, it is incumbent on me to show whether distributism has any real answers or practical plans. There can be no question that…

Adding to the many discussions thus far here at FPR about the ongoing health care debate, an open question, especially directed to Messrs Stegall, Medaille, and Iliff: How should a…

Above: The Empire State Building lit red and yellow in honor of sixty years of Chinese Communism. Below: What is really going on ... "Say loud!"

FPR's friend and contributor on his home blog: The way I see it, unless you're a Friedmanesque fiscal conservative and genuinely believe that any possible health care reform which comes…

“The burqa is not welcome in French territory,” French President Nicolas Sarkozy said in a June 22nd speech at Versailles.  He was referring to the head-to-toe garment worn by some…

Greet the newest columnist for "The Hoya," Georgetown's biweekly student newspaper. In today's column (which runs fortnightly), I question whether the current academic swooning over "globalization" is the newest iteration…

As the heat of late summer subsides here in Nanjing and our university settles into the new semester, many look forward to the annual “Golden Week” holiday in early October. …

That's the point made darn well by Stefan McDaniel as part of his response to globalization defenders (the link will take you back to the whole debate). A while back,…

This article caught my attention yesterday - our hunger for electricity to power our "personal electronics" has grown so insatiable that very soon the United States will need to build…

Jon Stewart's take down of ACORN is quite funny, but as a friend of mine said this morning, the real story is that anyone is shocked or suprised by this…