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Making Hookups Happen
Enterprising students at the University of Chicago have managed to combine two of the central interests of the contemporary student: casual sex and facebook. They've launched a new UChicago Hookups…
What Rebelled First: The Chicken or the Egg?
Reason magazine's Jesse Walker notes an outbreak of nullification, dairy-style, in Maine: http://reason.com/blog/2011/03/22/food-nullification
Critical Thinking
Frank Beckwith has an interesting little article over at "The Catholic Thing" on How Political Correctness Makes Us Dumb. Staying in the academy, if you've read Mary Vander Goot's piece…
The welfare state is a package deal
A lawyer friend who specializes in this kind of thing alerts me to this decision, handed down earlier this week in the Washington, D.C., U.S. District Court, ruling that no…
Between the Neo-Cons and the Libertarians
I'm a respondent in a Cato Unbound symposium devoted to a consideration of C. Bradley Thompson's recent book, Neoconservatism: An Obituary of an Idea, summarized at the Cato site in…
Whom You Have Sex With is My Business
BYU’s suspension of forward Brandon Davies for having sex with his girlfriend has divided the sports blogosphere between those who applaud the University for upholding its honor code and those…
Shout Out
Let me recommend the latest issue - as well as really all issues - of the very fine journal "Perspectives on Political Science," edited by our friendly nemesis Peter Lawler,…
Return to Princeton
I'll be lecturing this Thursday, March 10, on the campus of Princeton University. My lecture title is entirely non-controversial: "The Conservative Case Against the Constitution." All are welcome, and I…
They Were Expendable
JL Strickland, former Alabama mill worker and self-proclaimed "Linthead Emeritus," on a boy and a town: two more casualties of the deeply anti-American American Empire: www.ComeHomeAmerica.us.
Alito Gets it Right about Free Speech
As I predicted last October, the Supreme Court has made short work of the argument that the odious, bigoted, hateful, ridiculous Westboro Baptist Church ought to be subject to lawsuits…
FPR Conference
FPR, in conjunction with Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, MD, will be hosting a conference titled "Human Scale and the Human Good: Creating Healthy Communities in a Global Age." …
Wendell Berry Receives Humanities Medal
On March 1, Wendell Berry was awarded one of the nation's Humanities Medals in a ceremony at the White House. This article relates his charming and ever-humble response to the…
FPR Turns Two
On March 2, 2009, FPR was born. We've been going for two years now and our mission remains clear: to advance human flourishing through the promotion of political decentralism, economic…
Live Where We Are
Welcome, March! William Cullen Bryant saw through your bluster: For thou, to northern lands again, The glad and glorious sun dost bring, And thou hast joined the gentle train And…
A Community Does Good
There are plenty of reasons to lament, but here is a reason to hope. A school in Texas reaches out to some unlikely opponents and shows how a community can…
A Conference on Place
For those in the LA area, Pepperdine University will be hosting an intriguing conference on the idea of place. The conference is titled A Place in the World: Geography, Identity,…
World Magazine Notes Trend Toward Localism
Young people are questioning the upwardly mobile aspirations of their parents. Many are opting to put down roots. This is a good sign.
Alice Springs: A Really Bad Place
Commitment to a place is an important idea. But in the face of complete social breakdown, is there any place left to salvage?
Cisco’s Hologram
Cisco is boasting that its new communications technology will change the way we engage others. Indeed, when a hologram of a man in California appears before an audience in India…
The Right Profile
My lunch with Bill Clune is served at the American Conservative: http://www.amconmag.com/blog/meet-the-marlboro-man/.