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A revised foreign policy true to the principles of the Porch should turn the present one upside down.

Now and only now, when people are being eaten in famine-stricken areas, and hundreds, if not thousands, of corpses lie on the roads, we can (and therefore must) pursue the…

The last pro-life Democrat on a national ticket has died. R. Sargent Shriver, 1972 running mate of the best Democratic nominee since Al Smith, was an admirer of Catholic Worker…

Fortunately America still gives birth to her Framers and they come with every generation.

Remembering Ike's "Farewell Address," fifty years later.

They never quite got it when they asked me if I was “going home for Christmas” and I replied, “I live at home.”

If evangelicals are going to have trouble drawing the line in worship against Christian rock, will they really be reliable when it comes to evaluating the best texts and artistic…

“You go two blocks one way, you're in public housing. You go two blocks the other way, you're at Banana Republic."

Peace on Earth is still our prayer.

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.