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As the half-savage neighbor in Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” says, “Good fences make good neighbors.”

Most of us require an extended social network to keep us mentally and morally awake, and for a laugh, too, and if these friends are people we can weave in and out of our lives without heartbreak, they are nonetheless dear. They respond, they amuse, and they sometimes shelter us in a way that shows as clear as paint that the world is full of goodness and not just evil.

We have a Constitution and separation of powers and at least the idea of limited government because of the character of George Washington. Don’t think of Monday as “President’s Day.”

The President who promised change could not even change the Chairman, not even one who had failed so badly, and who continues to fail.

Call it Factory Planet: a world in which natural processes are treated as parts of a vast world-machine operated to produce a maximum amount of wealth for humans.

It may be the great sentiment of this American moment: “I want to build something of my own. How do you not understand that?”

Both the Right and Left in American politics agree with this aim - to keep America "number one."

Natural disasters and security threats seem to beg for a response that is massive, coordinated, and centralized. If so, how can the consolidation of state power be tempered and the principles of localism advanced?

Lovers of snow and cold are qualitatively different from the lovers of sun and surf; they are different moral beings altogether.