Frat Boys and the Household
If you follow college "culture" at all, you'll find little new or surprising in the recent discussions of the abusive hazing rituals at Dartmouth,...
A Letter from Old Nick to Candidate Santorum
Sir,
I write this letter to protest the public and wholly unwarranted attack on my character you have made during the course of your campaign,...
Homeschool Community
As a homeschooling parent I'm continually frustrated by the difficulty of talking about why we do what we do. Homeschooling is nearly always portrayed...
A Burke for Our Times
Edmund Burke was the greatest master of the English language, not even excepting Shakespeare. It is no doubt a startling claim, but one that...
Impiety and Enforced Forgetfulness
I’m struck at the vanity of those impious folks infatuated with their ability to improve the situation without having first served a long apprenticeship...
Carbuncles, Bedbugs, Boils and Politics
To paraphrase an observation of Chesterton on the subjects of poets, silence and cheese: Political scientists have been mysteriously silent on the subject of soap,...
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...
Patriotism vs. American Exceptionalism
Do you love America? If so, how much? Do you wear an American flag on your lapel (and look askance on those who don’t)?...
A Burke for Our Times
In a wonderful article published here at FPR a few weeks ago, Jason Peters argued that a proper education ought to provoke a kind...
For Lack of a Hardier Knickerbocker, the Republic Goes Tilt
Washington, Ct. Classics are called such for a reason. They endure. Quite by accident frequently, for as any condemned intellectual knows, the most marketable idea...