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I still do not understand why, in a prison and particularly in a jungle prison, where needs multiply like rats, why the need for lipstick should vault to the top…

The recent controversy over the removal of a video from the Smithsonian offers a good occasion to reflect on the relationship between the artist and the polity.

It was the kind of responsibility that forces a kid to grow up.

You may think every five- to eight-year-old you know wanted an iPod this year. Not these kids.

Here is your opportunity to name the worst-ever occupant of the White House.

TAC reconsiders Eisenhower's Farewell Address, delivered fifty years ago next month. Kauffman and yours truly participate in a fine symposium reflecting on the dangers of the "military-industrial complex."

We have, until this day, indulged in our individualistic reveries, imagining that we are always free to “light out for the Territory” and leave the ills of communal life behind…

In the ancient world, Christianity put an end to cremation, and for a century it was kept in check by Christian tradition.

While Peters is peddling his technophiliac vision below, I commend this ancient Catalonian tradition for your creche (and your garden), "the Caganer."

A splendid gift idea, especially for yourself.

But then Dylan is 69, and old enough to remember when the people of his place looked askance at empire. There were giants in the earth in those days.

From the mountaintop, the little people of this world appear very small indeed.

"Faced with the poverty, incompetence, and weak tyranny that real, existing socialism had delivered, many Poles I knew had begun a similar intellectual journey. And today, it’s the turn of…

One way to celebrate a culture of life is to cultivate our bodies in death.

Long live the King, somewhere damned else.

Save, print, drink.

While there is much work to be done and there are no guarantees of success, we don’t have to look far for the foundations upon which to build. They are…

My review of Leigh Eric Schmidt's Heaven's Bride appeared in this weekend's Wall Street Journal.

It was difficult to say whether they were on the far left or the far right or both simultaneously, but you were safe to identify them as radical, whichever political…

Ross Douthat suggests that the culture wars have moved to a different battlefield. I dissent.

My review of Les Bodnar's Carnie is in today's Wall Street Journal.

The American Constitution, as it was originally written and understood, is the most monarchical-democratic document in the modern world.

I value a writer who makes me read with a dictionary. Godspeed the man with a memory.

Listen to the fierce and mournful "Torn Screen Door" by the Scottish-Canadian singer/songwriter David Francey.