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In many ways, the Los Angeles County Fair is not so different from county fairs all over the country ... except for its agricultural exhibit.

Many a time, I have seen my friend doting on his little seven-year-old half brother, picking him up from school, cooking for him, and keeping his classmates’ junk food at…

The Ninth Anniversary of 9/11/01; Three Squared Equals Zero in the New American Math.

Is being an American worth it?

Can modern Islam countenance freedom of religion and expression? This is one of the great questions of our time.

How do we explain a culture that tells children that sex doesn’t matter much, that “girls can do anything boys can do,” and at the same moment is treating the…

Obfuscating language and philosophical ignorance do not prevent Hawking from suggesting that modern physics confirms Christian cosmology. Nature really does conform to uncreated law.

Computers are not The Answer to creating better students.

Americans do not need a Messiah because this nation is not Heaven on Earth.

My review of Hardy Green's The Company Town is in today's Wall Street Journal.

Here are the local puzzle pieces that we somehow need to fit together: great farms; committed, hard working farmers; a university of world class researchers; a highly participatory local political…

Why is it taking so long for Americans to become “real” grown-ups?

I know what Jesus would do: hate the car, love the car driver.

So how did we get to a situation where the “freedom of markets” has come to mean “servility” and corporate control?

Their language is hopeful and would be recognizable to any tobacco farmer of the last hundred years. But now they are talking about food.

I people really want to see the current state of the union, they need to take a look at my favorite part of Liberty State Park, which is the fact…

Raise a glass of dandelion wine to the dreamy kid from Waukegan, Illinois, who today becomes a nonagenarian. Herewith my appreciation of Bradbury from a while back: https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/06/ray-bradbury-of-illinois/

But not to be missed in this story is the recognition that no matter how much the government wants to empower and affirm everyone equally, you cannot fool the American…

It is characteristic of the tyrant, however, that he thinks he can get away with lies in the sense that no one will contradict them even when his statements are…

Do you ever long for the place of your childhood? Does it still exist?

Gossip, under the right circumstances, acts as a virtue which demonstrates concern and thickens social ties.

My review of Howard Mansfield's Turn & Jump is in today's Wall Street Journal.

Civilization rests upon the sacred. Thus it is as grimly appropriate that the first atom bomb test was sacrilegiously codenamed “Trinity” – as in *the* Trinity – as it is…

Going to the gym? Call a friend. Running an errand? Send a text. Eating something interesting? Take a picture and show the world on Facebook.