Place. Limits. Liberty.
Join us for FPR’s 2025 Conference on “Work and Leisure”

Articles 356

The Maps of Our Lives Point Homeward

Older and wiser, I have long learned that for all the times I wanted to visit far-away places, there is no place like home.
February 6, 2025

Reflection in a Glass Wall

The reflection looked like a vintage motion picture, only without those stilted movements.
February 5, 2025

Virgil and the Christian Imagination

love is the most powerful force in the world.

Crafting the Ideal School: Finding a Balance Between High-Tech and the Hands

it is through the arts alone that the various branches of learning touch human life.
February 3, 2025

How to Raise Readers, in Thirty-Five Steps

It is not too much to say that everything in our culture pushes against habits
January 31, 2025

The AI Invasion: For Humans, It’s Becoming Harder to Write

No question about it: For writers like me, who would like nothing more than to do our own writing and thinking with dignity and intellectual honesty, it’s becoming harder to…
January 30, 2025

Romanticism and the Soul of Learning

Conservatives should reconsider the lessons of Romanticism.

On Courage

Now – every moment, but now especially, this moment in history – is the time not to watch but to act.
January 28, 2025

The Biblical Case for Conservation

The Bible tells us there is life within the Kingdom—life for us and life for what is around us.

Lament for a Post-National Canada

"Canada has become a country much practiced at outrage."
January 24, 2025

Gárces’s Travels: A Review of Jeremy Beer’s Beyond the Devil’s Road

Much might be said about the neglect of the history of the American Southwest

Harr’ today, gone tomorrow

However, the widespread association of these events with the closing of the Hotel Harrington has overshadowed the preceding history of the hotel

Hannibal is at the Gates: Gambling in America

With the current state of sports betting, companies have managed to secure a largely unregulated, highly profitable, vice-driven field of operations.
January 21, 2025

Philosophy in the Ruins

As long as we do live philosophical lives and share in that life with others, we can sprout a philosophical culture from the ruins of the one dominated by the…
January 20, 2025

Marking the Year on Two Calendars: An Interview with Matthew Miller

Knowledge is a path to love, and so I’m bound to say that the book did change my affection for the place.

Facing a New Year of Grief

Grief is not a process to work through, a disorder to heal, a condition to treat, or an illness to cure.

The Hope of the American Republic: Local Coffee Shops

Because of coffee’s popularity, coffee shops can draw people together like very few other modern institutions.
January 15, 2025

Educating Hands for Human Flourishing? or Economic Growth?

“Opportunities that were not available to some due to race, socioeconomic class, or gender became available through industrial education efforts”

A Larger Category Than Political Allegiance

Humanity should remain a larger category than political allegiance even as we openly—and, one hopes, bravely—discuss and work through our politics.
January 10, 2025

There’s No Place Like Home

We are desperately in need of a collective vision of what it means to love our homes.
January 8, 2025

An Ordinary Citizen Honors A Man of Extraordinary Decency

President Carter showed what was possible when people came together for a cause and acted out of decency.
Alice Evans
January 7, 2025

“The Sensation of Seeing”: How T.S. Eliot Defamiliarizes the Christmas Story

That which we most value is often that which most frequently slips into dull repetition.

“As I Know by Love”: Wendell Berry’s Another Day

One might think that after forty-four years of writing these Sabbath poems, Berry would run out of things to say. But it seems that as long as the trees continue…

The American Food System’s Very Bad Legacy

There’s little appetite for a response that begins with taking up our axes to clear the land for something better.
Garth Brown
January 1, 2025