Tories are Persons, and Persons are Tories (but so too is...
All too many weeks ago, I promised a series of posts on foundations for a new religious right . . . and then I...
The Flaw in Jefferson’s Idea of Ward Republics
Thomas Jefferson’s agrarianism has long been vulnerable to attack by unsympathetic critics. Given that Jefferson ultimately banks on virtue rather than folly, this is...
Happy Birthday! Hose your Grandkids.
Of all the downsides attendant to turning fifty, none annoys quite so much as receiving membership offers from the AARP. The junk mail invites...
Creative Destruction and its Benefits, China-Style
A few weeks ago I was visited by a fellow Wichita resident who was thinking about getting into politics. We talked for a while...
Why We Consent to the Wholesale Destruction of Good Land
Harrison County, Ohio.
After I first moved to Harrison County, my smaller children used to beg that we drive home after excursions via a little-used...
Getting the Garden Going, One Baby-Step at a Time
This academic year Friends University found itself wondering what to do with a plot of land, directly beside and behind some student dormitories. Through...
Multiply Your Associations and be Free
My review of Robert Nisbet's classic The Quest for Community was just published at the On-Line Library of Law and Liberty, whose stated purpose...
The Music of The Spheres and The Terminally Tone-Deaf
I was watching a film called Chartres Cathedral and the Geometry of the Sacred the other day. For some reason, the Gothic gargoyles put...
Wes Jackson, Localism, and the Carbon-Based Community
A couple of days ago, I had the lucky opportunity to listen up close to Wes Jackson, founder of The Land Institute here in...
“Freedom or Virtue?” Revisited
About this time last year, Mitch Daniels, the Republican Governor of Indiana, stirred some controversy by calling on conservatives to declare a truce on...