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The general continued to pay for the upkeep of the LSU tiger in an airconditioned cage. The amount of money involved was almost precisely the same as the subsidy for…

Philip Bess argues that traditional forms of building are particularly suited to contemporary life.

Beautifully and substantially-made books suggest something that deserve to be pored over at length, just as one lingers with friends after a wonderful meal.

Over the weekend I picked up a book with a promising title: "Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture." It helps chart a path to a promising coalition between…

Regulation, as we all know, was merely a demonic attempt by closet communists to deprive us of our liberties. And the markets, being made of of sophisticated buyers and sellers…

It’s been almost exactly a year since the “Miracle at Polihale” occurred, and the answer to the “aloha question” is now clear: we are entering a “new normal.”

My grandma didn’t put up a Christmas tree. She didn’t bake pies. And she didn’t make fudge. Her kitchen was silent. I believe it was her way of mourning, not…

I Drink, Therefore I am; A Philosopher's Guide to Wine. A review.

We are trapped in the deepest imaginable form of incoherence: we call for more control over the consequences of mastery, yet vaguely recognize that this very response is the source…

You never thought it was all the fault of the railroads, did you? Neither did I.

Who is following in Susan B. Anthony's footsteps: Connie Schultz or Sarah Palin? Is abortion an empowering right necessary for true equality, or an inhumane tragedy linked to lack of…

Your body’s yours, just as this poem is mine: to make, destroy—a tenancy of will, for every citizen and concubine.

The great libertarian journalist Jesse Walker calls this Cold War liberal folkery (http://reason.com/blog/2010/05/27/you-hit-me-baby-like-an-atomic) "the most earnest song ever written." Hilariously bad. Enjoy! 

Besides, the harshest criticisms of any place come from those who truly love and belong to it.

The hubris of ingratitude is a caustic acid that reduces all in its wake to the fetid condition of servitude, for a spoiled child needs nothing so much as a…

Legendary investor Seth Klaman on how the government has taught everyone a bad lesson.

Soon-to-be-former United States Senator from Utah, Bob Bennett, gives some advice to the Tea Party activists who helped unseat him at Utah GOP convention: don't be like Jimmy Carter, be…

It seemed a good time to get out and leave the classroom to idiots who couldn’t learn and didn’t know better, and imbeciles who couldn’t teach and should have known…

We are here, in part, because choices made in big places have worked against rural places and rural people.

It turns out locally-produced food is not only good for the body, but the spirit - especially the human capacity to intuit the sanctity of the world.

Is organic food merely a luxury item for the self-satisfied and affluent west?

The Cato Institute sponsors a symposium on Philip Blond, with a lead essay by yours truly.

Wendell Berry turns his attention toward an intentional spill in Kentucky.

I just completed Nicholas Carr's excellent book, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, and--because that's the sort of person I am--I couldn't resist writing a review-essay…