The Editors

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

So how did we get to a situation where the “freedom of markets” has come to mean “servility” and corporate control?

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/

Can the blight of modern reductive thinking and living be overcome by humanistic education? Newman thought so; so does Villanova.

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…

Was Nisbet wrong about the quest for community?

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…

Angelo Codevilla gives us an excellent diagnosis of the problem. The cure is not explained.

"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.

Civilization rests upon the sacred. Thus it is as grimly appropriate that the first atom bomb test was sacrilegiously codenamed “Trinity” – as in *the* Trinity – as it is…

Economics has become a totalizing system claiming the power to explain all things. It is as much a religious system—by another name—as is Berry's Great Economy.

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.

“It enabled us to create our own vision for the future. That was the way I look at it then and now.” I guess part of that “vision” was Tammany…

It is time to reopen the questions about human nature, about human autonomy, about the desirability self-creation. Liberals should, in brief, broaden their horizons to ponder competing views of human…

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.