Humanity and Honor, Culture and Clarity
Sometimes when you sit in the pew you get the feeling that the preacher is talking to you. Of course, this impression is magnified...
Dilemmas of conservatism: start with the labeling…
A new book provides profiles of seminal conservative thinkers. But Lord, please, please don't read them through the outdated narrative of traditional cons, neocons, and laissez-faire cons.
Why Australia Needs a Renewed Culture of Natural Marriage
Human nature, innate human longings, human biology, and human history are all on your side.
In Praise of Gossip
Gossip, under the right circumstances, acts as a virtue which demonstrates concern and thickens social ties.
The Anti-Propaganda of Calvin Coolidge
In a wonderful little essay on Calvin Coolidge (Calvin Coolidge: Puritanism de Luxe) written in 1926, Walter Lippmann described the president as having...
Dan Mielke for Congress
There's an honest-to-god crunchy-con candidate in the northern Wisconsin woods.
T.S. Eliot on Community and Belief
I shall be giving a lecture on Eliot and Stoicism next week; FPR readers are invited.
It’s the Family, Stupid
Hillsdale,MI. David the King ordered the beautiful Bathsheba to come to him because he could. He also could have her husband killed, and sent...
The Decline of David Brooksian Civilization
Claremont, CA. Men of Western civilization, take note: David Brooks thinks that you – and he – are done for.
In a recent exchange with...