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

USDA regulations strangle the local meat market.

Bush's strong effort to restore the freedom of the church took the political side of this freedom for the whole meaning of the tradition. At the same time, his supply-side…

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+…

Video of Blond's March 22nd talk at Villanova is now available online.

No fan of Frum am I, but this is disturbing. The AEI has fired him for deviations from the Party Line.

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…

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…

The rise and fall of Tiger Woods leads to a brief meditation both on beauty and virtue.

The ideology of free trade and managed society continues to destroy the prospects of a prosperous American in the Twenty-First Century. Let us dig down and return to the one…

My latest at "The American Conservative"

And what is the CLEW, you may ask? It is the Cost of Living Extremely Well, which measures such essential items as the price rise in Beluga caviar or a…

It takes a village - to keep the Feds at bay.

David Brooks offers an unstinting positive assessment of Phillip Blond's alternative to the current Left/Right alignment.

News from the provinces is hardly all bad.

JEFFERSON COUNTY, KANSAS. It's been seventy years since John Steuart Curry unveiled his masterpiece murals on the walls of the Kansas State House.  Their anarchic depiction of my home land…

Matthew J. Milliner explicates "Art and Beauty," while Dana Gioia wins Notre Dame's Laetare Medal

A woman head coach of a boy's high school football team robs the players of a male role model and diminishes the bonds of male camaraderie.

. . . we rediscovered the meaning of Place. Limits. Liberty.

Phillip Blond to lecture in Washington D.C and Philadelphia - thanks to FPR

The recent anti-empire, anti-war conference in DC could be the start of a significant Left-and-Right movement to challenge the foundation of U.S. foreign policy. An across-the-spectrum coalition has great potential…

Will raising the legal dropout age teach troubled kids anything? Probably not.

On Earthquakes and Avatar

I'll take the old gal with a few well-earned wrinkles that fit soft and snug like a favorite glove. It's the land, stupid, and boy is she a thing of…