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Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn? Harry Potter and Ron Weasley? Anne Shirley and Diana Barry? Disruptive elements, all of them.

Tea party populism gets its marching orders from Republican leaders in Washington D.C., while Obama pretends to seeth.

I have a long history with the sour cherry. Here is some of it.

It’s been almost six years now and I suspect he’s still talking St. Peter’s ear off.

Why didn't I remember to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month? Does this mean that I am culturally insenstive? Or are there too many heritage months to keep up with?

William Cullen Bryant selected the month of his death: I gazed upon the glorious sky    And the green mountains round And thought, that when I came to lie   …

Claremont, CA. On Tuesday, the residents of this fair state voted to “open” the California primaries. From now on, every voter in the state will receive the same ballot in…

The economy is on the mend, if indicators of increasing quantities of garbage and waste are to be trusted. Economists celebrate our return to growth.

Should you have, for some reason, an interest in goings-on in the world of philanthropy and civil society, I invite you to lumber on on over to Philanthropy Daily.

Over the weekend I picked up a book with a promising title: "Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture." It helps chart a path to a promising coalition between…

My grandma didn’t put up a Christmas tree. She didn’t bake pies. And she didn’t make fudge. Her kitchen was silent. I believe it was her way of mourning, not…

My appearance on local radio yesterday discussing politics and law, both practical and philosophical.  Skip to the 55 minute mark.

We are trapped in the deepest imaginable form of incoherence: we call for more control over the consequences of mastery, yet vaguely recognize that this very response is the source…

You never thought it was all the fault of the railroads, did you? Neither did I.

The great libertarian journalist Jesse Walker calls this Cold War liberal folkery (http://reason.com/blog/2010/05/27/you-hit-me-baby-like-an-atomic) "the most earnest song ever written." Hilariously bad. Enjoy! 

Besides, the harshest criticisms of any place come from those who truly love and belong to it.

Legendary investor Seth Klaman on how the government has taught everyone a bad lesson.

Soon-to-be-former United States Senator from Utah, Bob Bennett, gives some advice to the Tea Party activists who helped unseat him at Utah GOP convention: don't be like Jimmy Carter, be…

It seemed a good time to get out and leave the classroom to idiots who couldn’t learn and didn’t know better, and imbeciles who couldn’t teach and should have known…

We are here, in part, because choices made in big places have worked against rural places and rural people.

It turns out locally-produced food is not only good for the body, but the spirit - especially the human capacity to intuit the sanctity of the world.

The Cato Institute sponsors a symposium on Philip Blond, with a lead essay by yours truly.

Wendell Berry turns his attention toward an intentional spill in Kentucky.

I just completed Nicholas Carr's excellent book, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, and--because that's the sort of person I am--I couldn't resist writing a review-essay…