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There are still some enterprising farm kids around, making a good business out of your need to eat.

What's left? The overschooled and the underschooled, both of them unusually dependent upon government largesse, or upon government largeness.

Michael Kinsley amps up Patrick's "false choice" rhetoric.

Krugman beats the drums for more debt.

There's a deep and revealing purpose to figuring out if you're an elitist or not, though I'm not sure this quiz actually gets at it.

FPR is the future.

It may turn out that both intellectual development and the pursuit of filthy lucre are best pursued without the millstone of a college degree (and the debts, both monetary and…

Momma don't let your babies grow up to be campaign managers.

Because the rent is too damn high!

It's not "climate change" per se that arouses opposition from the heartland, but rather it is that these issues are stand-ins for and advanced by command and control methods wielded…

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 But Lord, please, please don't read them through the outdated narrative of traditional cons, neocons, and laissez-faire cons.

I am not convinced that the Austrian School doesn't have the better argument, but the distributists bring a vital perspective and there is probably no better place to start hearing…

David Brooks youtube-ized.

Here is a tragic example of the soft tyranny of bureaucratic goodie-goodies backed by corporate muscle in favor of closing markets.

Michael Kinsley reviews a new collection of Daniel Patrick Moynihan's writings and concludes that today's politicians are boring boring boring.

Is the age of the book over?

Is there a connection between building something together and community?

... and like it!

You'll never guess what nation David B. Hart thinks qualifies for this title.

I was the featured speaker at September's Washington D.C. "Conservatism on Tap." My topic: "Is There a Conservative Tradition in America?" I'll post my talk here soon. Stay tuned.

My good friend and sturdy Kansas patriot Tony Woodlief writes about the best State Fair around in today's Wall Street Journal.

We hope to connect FPR readers with one another (and with some of our authors) sans pixels or gigabytes.

I will be in New York City on October 6-7.  For details, see here.  If anyone is in the area and wants to attend events or plan an FPR event…

The so-called "wise men" of Michael Gerson and David Brooks's imagination don't exist.  And the same could be said of the super experts that supposedly run things in our financial…