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The Return of the Red Tory
Our friend Phillip Blond returns to the U.S., landing first in Washington, D.C., where he will join me tomorrow evening, Thursday October 6 for a "conversation" about his recent work,…
Front Porch Republic and the Communion of Saints
By Kim Daniels and Chad C. Pecknold Wendell Berry might well be the patron saint of Front Porch Republic. Or at least –when we attended FPR’s first conference at Mount Saint Mary’s…
A Question for David Brooks
Alexandria, VA On Monday night of this week, New York Times columnist David Brooks spoke at Georgetown University at the invitation of the program that I founded and direct, "The…
“Thrift and Thriving in America”
...is the title of a new multi-author volume edited by Joshua J. Yates and James Davison Hunter of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia.…
Rd U Ltr NOT :(
More reportage, now by Niall Ferguson, of the obviously depressing news - we are raising a nation of idiots. Half of today’s teenagers don’t read books—except when they’re made to.…
Consolidators
Get ready to fall off your seat. Sarah Palin, a.k.a., Flawed Vessel, recently received a bit of positive press in the New York Times. According to the Time's Anand Giridharadas,…
When What We Say in Private Goes Public
All religious groups have their internecine squabbles and the places where such fights take place. They used to be confined to magazines and journals, and so only followed by the…
Ratification Debate, Part II
Tonight, September 19, FPR's own Bill Kauffman will gird up to re-make the case of the Anti-federalists at the Tocqueville Forum's annual Constitution Day event. He will be debating Professor…
Carl Oglesby, RIP
Carl Oglesby, former president of Students for a Democratic Society and folk-singing prophet of Middle American anti-imperialism, died Tuesday. Herewith an interview I conducted with Carl for Reason magazine and a…
Bruce Springsteen’s The Rising: Ten Years Down the Road
Springsteen’s music does indeed return to the things that are most important in an hour of crisis. But contrary to popular impressions, these things turn out to have very little…
Nine Eleven
Alexandria, VA September 11, 2001, we are frequently told, is the day that "changed everything." For the 3,000 people in New York City and Washington D.C. who were killed on…
Watching Walker Percy
The author of The Moviegoer would make a fascinating subject for a movie, or at least a documentary. So reasoned filmmaker Win Riley. His Walker Percy: A Documentary Film, which…
Rod’s Back
Dreher, that is, with a new blog at The American Conservative website. Congratulations to both, and especially all of us, who have missed his voice over the past year. We'll…
Paradise at Ground Zero
What I’m not expecting to hear is anyone asking how it was that about 25,000 people in the towers aided each other in an orderly evacuation, without which the casualty…
Red Tory?
Red toryism claims to be re-defining the political landscape, moving beyond the old hegemonic debates as to whether the best kind of government is socialist and statist or liberal and…
The Primary Error of Early English Education
During my brief foray into public education, I taught a group of seventh-graders a typical lesson from a standard middle school literature textbook: we read a chapter from Ramsey Ullman’s…
Interstate Commerce and Arizona Wine
The federal courts' extraordinarily broad interpretation of the Constitution's interstate commerce clause has long posed a problem for localists -- which is to say, for community self-governance. That has never…
The Cynic by the Bay
From today's Wall Street Journal, my review of the Library of America's Ambrose Bierce omnibus:
You Say Dominion, I Say Kingdom . . .
Let’s call the whole world Christ’s. Ryan Lizza’s piece on Michele Bachmann prompted an avalanche of posts from bloggers and columnists who took issue with effort to link the Congresswoman…
A Human Education
From Pope Benedict XVI's Address to Young University Professors: "Where will young people encounter those reference points in a society which is increasingly confused and unstable? At times one has…
Fair and Balanced?
Say what you will about Ron Paul, Fox News' failure to say anything about the candidate is curious and gives Jon Stewart a big target. The Daily Show - Indecision…
C.S. Lewis on Mere Liberty and the Evils of Statism Pt. III
This is Part II of a III Part series on C.S. Lewis and Statism. The series originally appeared at theIndependent Institute. See Part I here and Part II here. Collectivism and…
C.S. Lewis on Mere Liberty and the Evils of Statism Pt II
This is Part II of a III Part series on C.S. Lewis and Statism. The series originally appeared at theIndependent Institute. See Part I here and Part III here. Moral…
C.S. Lewis on Mere Liberty and the Evils of Statism
This is Part I of a III Part series on C.S. Lewis and Statism. The series originally appeared at the Independent Institute. See part II here and part III here.…