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My review of Hardy Green's The Company Town is in today's Wall Street Journal.

I will be in New York City on October 6-7.  For details, see here.  If anyone is in the area and wants to attend events or plan an FPR event…

Why is it taking so long for Americans to become “real” grown-ups?

I know what Jesus would do: hate the car, love the car driver.

The so-called "wise men" of Michael Gerson and David Brooks's imagination don't exist.  And the same could be said of the super experts that supposedly run things in our financial…

This story (and the broader phenomena it represents which would include everything from the explosion of reality TV to Facebook) illustrates what appears to be fertile new ground for Girardian inquiry…

Their language is hopeful and would be recognizable to any tobacco farmer of the last hundred years. But now they are talking about food.

Michael Gerson's column this morning seems a likely candidate to spur some friendly discussion on the Porch.

Another Tea Party candidate appears set to make political waves by unseating an establishment figure by running a rag-tag minuteman-type campaign.

I people really want to see the current state of the union, they need to take a look at my favorite part of Liberty State Park, which is the fact…

Human nature, innate human longings, human biology, and human history are all on your side.

Raise a glass of dandelion wine to the dreamy kid from Waukegan, Illinois, who today becomes a nonagenarian. Herewith my appreciation of Bradbury from a while back: https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/06/ray-bradbury-of-illinois/

But not to be missed in this story is the recognition that no matter how much the government wants to empower and affirm everyone equally, you cannot fool the American…

It is characteristic of the tyrant, however, that he thinks he can get away with lies in the sense that no one will contradict them even when his statements are…

"Here's a couple of things America got right - cars and freedom."

My review of Howard Mansfield's Turn & Jump is in today's Wall Street Journal.

A report from the heartland.

Next time your kids ask you to tell them a scary story, show them this slide show.  Only I imagine this one will be keeping the parents awake at night.

Our military is off defending Afghanistan and Iraq from themselves while our Financial Titans are rescued to live another day of utterly neglecting the welfare of the Republic.

Long time friend of FPR, Michael Brendan Dougherty, has a new blog.  Go read it. On why his blog has no comments: "They boost traffic and make people feel they…

Whether left or right, the ethical education of those we send to fight should concern us all.

Tradition supposedly bears the thumbprints of Roman patricians with browbeaten wives or frustrated monks who shivered in mediæval abbeys.

Keeping alive a print vehicle for independent, thoughtful conservatism depends on us.

Yesterday's ruling in the Arizona immigration law matter by Federal District Judge Susan Bolton is reverberating around the internet today.  Most of the heat is generated by the substantive policy…