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As Goes Reid, So Goes America (Maybe, Unfortunately)

Harry Reid's election in Nevada is all about an argument over the direction of the American system. Would that we could argue about the nature of that system instead.
October 21, 2010

Peter Thiel

It may turn out that both intellectual development and the pursuit of filthy lucre are best pursued without the millstone of a college degree (and the debts, both monetary and…
October 21, 2010

The Population Bomb

Not with a bang, but a whimper . . .
October 21, 2010

The Best Foreign Policy is No Foreign Policy

Or, Domestic policy is the only policy.
October 20, 2010

Why Is This Man Wearing Gloves?

Because the rent is too damn high!
October 19, 2010

Another Front Porch Success in God’s Country

It's not "climate change" per se that arouses opposition from the heartland, but rather it is that these issues are stand-ins for and advanced by command and control methods wielded…
October 19, 2010

Class and Clerisy

Some ruling classes in history, more than others, deserve pitchforks.
October 19, 2010

The Cost of Everything

Without proper accounting, there can be neither honest pricing nor clean water.
October 18, 2010

What Military-Industrial Complex?

A "senior stateman" avows ignorance of Leviathan.
Patrick Deneen
October 18, 2010

The Social Network Fantasy

In today’s Los Angeles Times, Neil Gabler has an insightful piece on the way in which the “gang of friends” has become the dominant social group on American television.
October 17, 2010

My Kind of General

The great '60s-'70s R&B singer General Johnson has died. The pacific General wrote the antiwar and pro-home anthem "Bring the Boys Home"
October 16, 2010

Dilemmas of conservatism: start with the labeling…

A new book provides profiles of seminal conservative thinkers. But Lord, please, please don't read them through the outdated narrative of traditional cons, neocons, and laissez-faire cons.
Jeremy Beer
October 15, 2010

Hadley Arkes on Free Speech

Writing at Public Discourse (of which I am the managing editor), Hadley Arkes criticizes conservatives and liberals and defends the notion that communities can define standards of speech. Balancing individual…
October 15, 2010

Honest Water

On the banks of a river, but can't get a drink.
October 15, 2010

Toward a Truly Free Market

I am not convinced that the Austrian School doesn't have the better argument, but the distributists bring a vital perspective and there is probably no better place to start hearing…
October 14, 2010

You Are an Extortionist …

David Brooks youtube-ized.
October 13, 2010

Promoting Prodigality

News Flash: The Fed to reward spendthrifts and debtors!!
Patrick Deneen
October 13, 2010

Got Raw Milk? Then You Are an Enemy of the State!

Here is a tragic example of the soft tyranny of bureaucratic goodie-goodies backed by corporate muscle in favor of closing markets.
October 12, 2010

Politicians are Boring

Michael Kinsley reviews a new collection of Daniel Patrick Moynihan's writings and concludes that today's politicians are boring boring boring.
October 12, 2010

American Self-Loathing

Anti-Washington Animus as Self-loathing.
Patrick Deneen
October 12, 2010

The Jurisdiction of Science

They have no objections to non-scientists writing on evolutionary topics, so long as they do so in the proper spirit of submissiveness and adulation.
October 11, 2010

Why I Hope Westboro Baptist Church, the ACLU, and Dahlia Lithwick Get Their Butts Kicked By the Supreme Court

Free speech is a good thing. Respecting the value of the whole community is a better one.
October 7, 2010

Profiting on Localism

Macy's goes local. Except for the profits.
Patrick Deneen
October 6, 2010