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I shall be giving a lecture on Eliot and Stoicism next week; FPR readers are invited.

Harvey Mansfield and William Galston disagree about liberty; from the perspective that insists place empowers liberty, Galston has it right.

Heaven forbid. . .

Louis Auchincloss died January 26, 2010, aged 92. Most of the obits talk about his prolific writing career while working as a serious attorney until age 87. They also emphasize…

He discovered that he could solve the dependence on loan sharks in one village with a mere $27 in capital. For a man who was used to working in millions…

FPR in the Weekly Standard: Getting Under JPod's Skin

Hooking up is almost bound to emerge as a norm among young adults in a large-scale society where mobility is highly prized and cultivated.

The farmer Joel Salatin speaks at Georgetown - coincidentally during "Sex Positive Week." He should have been scheduled for those events too, since he has something in general to teach…

  Today marks the first anniversary of the Front Porch Republic.  Such a milestone provides an opportunity to cast a quick glance back on the year and indicate a bit…

How about REAL Front Porches? Could FPR be the ultimate dating service?

When economic growth finally levels off, what kind of world comes after? Shall we be unchained from the mad rush for money of the last century? Or will other but…

Jesse Walker has written a nice remembrance of the anarchist Colin Ward.

But what would bring Tiger back? Does anybody think he would go to confession? I mean, heck, Bill Clinton still thinks he has the moral upper hand on Ken Starr.

Three years ago, I could not imagine Ron Paul winning the CPAC straw poll. Now he has. The doom and gloom evoked by the rich and powerful are realities in…

The American economy has been marked by a tremendous concentration of private power over the past 50 years. The only question is not whether this should be reversed, but how…

Yes, a good dinner conversation is akin to chimps licking fleas off each other because it is a way of bonding and establishing relationships and hierarchies within the group.

For years, two-faced Republican demagogues have served up phony-baloney about how much they love little country churches, Norman Rockwell paintings, and old-fashioned American life, even while they were simultaneously encouraging…

What we need today is not a generation that is “spiritual, not religious.” I would argue that what is needed is the studied capacity to be “religious, not spiritual."

David Brooks on the meritocracy: good critique, bad conclusion.

Less happy for mother is the reality that the single soul, resulting from this communion of two bodies, receives nourishment from single-malt.

Whatever else you make of Facebook friendship, it underscores the great and significant discrepancy between: 1) the scale of contemporary life, and 2) the scale of friendship.

Is there a place for friendship in politics? According to ancient theory - one that continued well into modern times - not only should friendship be a main aim of…

"Memory and imagination, as Vico says in the New Science, are closely connected to ingenuity (in Italian, ingegno; in Latin, ingenium) as the power to form hypotheses in science and…

With friends like this, you can have a world full of enemies at your back and it don't matter because your friend is your fortress.