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New Nullifiers?
Our health care "debate."
Educating Tools
The future of education.
A Reader Responds – For and Against Blond/Brooks
Practical suggestions from a practical reader. Thoughts?
Phillip Blond at Georgetown–Streaming Audio
In case you weren't able to be there.
An Elegant Plan
Obama would like a health care plan that is academically approved, but not publicly. Any wonder it still hasn't passed?
Census 2010
To fill it out or not. That is the question.
Deneen Spring Tour Dates
With stops in Dallas and Philadelphia. The City of Brotherly Love should beware - I'll be there the same evening as Peters, who will be lecturing at Villanova. Riot police…
One Tea Party Too Late
Derbyshire in the latest TAC: [H]ere are the Tea Partiers vowing to “take back America.” Is there any real prospect of their doing so? If the “time left for us…
Truck Farm
These two intrepid fellows are out to prove that good food can be grown almost anywhere. This creative garden suggests that growing at least some food is not so much…
Interview with Me
Recently I was interviewed by the organizers of the website "The Conservatory." Here is an excerpt of the interview, as well as a link to the whole discussion.
T.S. Eliot on Community and Belief
I shall be giving a lecture on Eliot and Stoicism next week; FPR readers are invited.
FPR: Ho Chi Minh Fever Dream?
FPR in the Weekly Standard: Getting Under JPod's Skin
Appetite Control
The farmer Joel Salatin speaks at Georgetown - coincidentally during "Sex Positive Week." He should have been scheduled for those events too, since he has something in general to teach…
A Doomsday Cycle
Increase regulations or remove the safety net?
Colbert on Corporate Personhood
Does the idea of corporate personhood create a strange new god before which we prostrate ourselves?
Stegall in the News
The attorney representing four of the Americans who were being held in Haiti on kidnapping charges is FPR's Caleb Stegall.
Vico Contra Powerpoint
"Memory and imagination, as Vico says in the New Science, are closely connected to ingenuity (in Italian, ingegno; in Latin, ingenium) as the power to form hypotheses in science and…
Tea Party Conspiracy
Beans, Bibles, and bullets seem to be the watchwords of some members of the Tea Party movement. Are their fears legitimate?
What the World Eats
A photographic essay depicting a week's worth of food consumed by families in various societies.
The Way Economists Think
Does the goal of maximum economic efficiency undermine other more important goods?
Who Was at Rod Dreher’s Super Bowl Party?
I get somewhat frustrated, at times, with the language of compromise, because it seems to me that if you are, in fact, acknowledging a degree of compromise with modern life,…
Palin’s Pride
Can national pride create national blind spots?
Tea Party?
The future of the Tea Party is uncertain, but there are interesting possibilities.