The Editors

Rod Dreher likes the iPad. What does that say about progress?

Noah Millman says blame the money, and he's right.

Making the case for nuclear power. Since everyone else is.

Ross Douthat reflects on the way in which globalization, the mass media, and participatory democracy make local control so difficult to maintain.

Why "Great Books" curricula aren't all they're cracked up to be.

My review of Jason Kelly's entertaining account of George Babbitt as boxing promoter, Shelby's Folly, is in today's Wall Street Journal.

Now that the admission of blogger taint is clearly in the open, one may as well produce one's own list of most influential books.

Fr. Michael Orsi reviews Kauffman's Luther Martin, and finds wisdom therein.

It is no wonder that we fallen mortals would drive a heavy spike through the opened hands of Christ, bloodily impaling him atop the rocky pate of Golgotha.

Perhaps out of these fissures and the current populist turmoil, someone might be able to craft a new, more coherent, and more promising Christian and Democratic coalition.

I love to go in the capricious days of April and hunt violets.

This thesis has the benefit of describing a coherent and understandable affinity between and among my favorite American thinkers, writers, and statesmen.

Can I gloat?

The hidden connection between our two academic orthodoxies - post-modernism and scientific research.

If your religion--or at least your concept of the moral norms of the civil order--lacks a notion of grace, it therefore also lacks a notion of gifts; all it can…

But how can such plural sovereignty be realised under the circumstances of this century? Who will guard the guardians, so to speak? How will the stones of the arch fit…

George A. Panichas, literary critic and longtime editor of Modern Age, has died at the age of 79.

Since the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) has been discussed on this site by Jerry Salyer and Susan McWilliams, I want to mention that last month the program (after a $120+…

According to David Rieff, FPR occupies an honorable space on the right side of the American commentariat spectrum, in that many of our writers (1) are willing to admit the…

Our health care "debate."

The future of education.

A friend sent me the other day two issues of a little journal called The Publican of Philadelphia. Since I am forever worried that the Porch's ongoing what-to-do conversation gravitates…

Practical suggestions from a practical reader. Thoughts?

My latest at "The American Conservative"