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This story (and the broader phenomena it represents which would include everything from the explosion of reality TV to Facebook) illustrates what appears to be fertile new ground for Girardian inquiry…

Michael Gerson's column this morning seems a likely candidate to spur some friendly discussion on the Porch.

Another Tea Party candidate appears set to make political waves by unseating an establishment figure by running a rag-tag minuteman-type campaign.

The options: A decentralized food system or a centralized regulatory system backed by the power of the state.

Human nature, innate human longings, human biology, and human history are all on your side.

"Here's a couple of things America got right - cars and freedom."

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

Toward a Truly Free Market: A Distributist Perspective on the Role of Government, Taxes, Health Care, Deficits, and More

A report from the heartland.

Next time your kids ask you to tell them a scary story, show them this slide show.  Only I imagine this one will be keeping the parents awake at night.

Long time friend of FPR, Michael Brendan Dougherty, has a new blog.  Go read it. On why his blog has no comments: "They boost traffic and make people feel they…

Whether left or right, the ethical education of those we send to fight should concern us all.

Yesterday's ruling in the Arizona immigration law matter by Federal District Judge Susan Bolton is reverberating around the internet today.  Most of the heat is generated by the substantive policy…

Could it be that there is a growing awareness that work--labor that actually results in something of value--and honesty are virtues worth preserving?

One of the key flashpoints over the identity of the Church has been the notion of inclusivity. When my church-related school redid its mission statement a couple of years ago,…

Big Questions Online makes its appearance.

A reader asks: anyone interested in joining the Ciceronian Society, a new APSA-affiliated group?

News Flash: Brooks criticizes suburbia.

That some "progressives" may be conservatives, while most "conservatives" are actually progressives.

In a wonderful little essay on Calvin Coolidge (Calvin Coolidge: Puritanism de Luxe) written in 1926, Walter Lippmann described the president as having mastered the “technique of anti-propaganda” by sapping…

Wendell Berry explains his break with the University of Kentucky.

Over on the hip lefty Sojourner's blog, Chris Rice douses the fires of American sin with the holy waters of sanctimony in an entry ominously and alliteratively titled: "The War, the Well, and…

My review of Eric Jaffe's The King's Best Highway is in today's Wall Street Journal.

Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn? Harry Potter and Ron Weasley? Anne Shirley and Diana Barry? Disruptive elements, all of them.