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What is this thing we call “socialization” and why is there a perception that this is best achieved in the classroom and thwarted by homeschooling?

A thing without proper limits becomes its own opposite, and benevolence quickly becomes a tyranny which threatens both civil and religious order.

Gram Parsons, Southern hippie aristocrat Byrd progenitor of “Cosmic American Music” who spent too much tyme eight miles high, expressed his Christian faith in a number of tunes, none lovelier…

Where this latest tourist among the rustics goes wrong is in not crediting the stay-at-homes with the capacity to dream, and in not noticing that some of those who “got…

herefore, it behooves me to cut directly to the chase, and state very clearly why I am a monarchist: “I am a monarchist because I am a democrat.”

Thanksgiving, which may initially seem like a practice that is all too foreign to our second nature, can become an activity that realizes our more original human nature-i.e., the nature…

At what price security? A call for national fortitude.

What if every day was given to rest, eating, and relaxation?

Diane Rehm has selected Wendell Berry’s novel Hannah Coulter as the “Reader Review” book for November. FPR's own Jason Peters will appear as the off-color commentator.

The future belongs to nincompoops, courtesy of Facebook, Twitter and the Interwebs.

And nowhere, not in so much as a page of this literature, does one discover even the beginnings of an answer to the question, “what is it like to be…

A call for your favorite poems of place.

If you want a reason to reach for a beer, read this piece, preferably at a bar featuring IPA’s during Happy Hour.

Then it’s a bit up to you to be jolly crusty and jolly full of hell-fire and sin and damnation.

In which "culture" is distinguished from our contemporary "anti-culture."

The idea that the best way to reform government is to simply say "No!" is probably a bad idea...but for the TSA, I'll make an exception.

Modern science has given us modern miracles, like iPhones and atom bombs and Chrysler cars, but has not given us the wisdom to use them.

The book does a great service in dismantling economic shibboleths about trade, money, labor, and markets, and then reconstructing them along different premises that conform with both human happiness and…

Where else can one find such a wide ranging, wise, witty, and downright winsome collection of thinkers and writers in one tactile, fold-over-double, take-to-the-porcelain-throne, nap-with-on-the-couch, 100-percent-carpal-tunnel-free place?

Will I die here? I don't know. I have tried living away from here and it does not work.

It should help open the ‘closed shop’ of economic theory to a potentially rich and fruitful debate.

Jesse Walker of Reason is bummed that Russ Feingold lost: http://reason.com/blog/2010/11/03/a-farewell-to-feingold. So am I.

     The dank and drear of Election Day and its hangover were dispelled by the appearance in my mailbox of books from two most admirable friends.      John Rezelman—poet, wit,…

William Gilmore Simms’ claims about the decay of morals and the arts that results from the rise of scientism and decline of supernaturalism can be elaborated by reflecting on the…