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Woods on Fox
State's rights, state legislatures, repeal of 16th and 17th, constitutional convention, and even nullification, coming back into the so-called mainstream discussion.
Save Detroit. Start a Farm.
Detroit is a mess. The auto industry is collapsing. Crime is rampant. Anyone who could get out has left. Buildings are vacant. Large tracts of land, once formerly known as…
Defending (Local) Prohibition(s)
Jacob Weisberg, in Slate, says that the spirit of Prohibition is dead, and those laws which still maintain elements of that spirit--stopping gay people from marrying, stopping sick people from…
On Hospitality
As a founding editor of this here social club---the site's name is derived from the subtitle of one of my books---I just wanna say that the contributions and fellowship of…
James Poulos Says Something Very Important
"Straussians in basic agreement with Kristol answer yes to the first question. Though no great critics of Plato, pro-Tocquevillian Straussians must concede that Tocqueville’s vision of democratic despotism significantly qualifies…
Paul Gottfried Says Something Very Important
"While I’m not declaring that the battle against our enemies is irreversibly lost, I’m definitely saying that paleoconservatives will not win the battle they began."
The Pagan Church
Richard Spencer: "I guess I just respect and admire the church more when it’s in a bold, aggressive, “pagan” mood, and less when its leaders demand universal tolerance and cry…
Gauntlets
A great many comments have been posted in response to my posting, "Subsidizing Localism." I think the question I sought to pose - and for which I do not have…
Sniped
The boys at Taki's Mag are sniping and griping about FPR (how could they have missed our passing case of feminism!?). That's fine, I suppose, and many of the critiques…
Where Have all the Iowans Gone?
In today's Wall Street Journal, I review Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain and What it Means for America by Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas: http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052748704322004574480250107329602-lMyQjAxMDA5MDEwOTExNDkyWj.html
It’s Really Come To This.
Claremont, CA. This is just too good. Driving near Universal City last weekend, I saw a sign for what is possibly the most mind-blowing business concept I have ever encountered…
Update to Sharing the Children Equally
One of America's more interesting and less predictable feminist public intellectual voices, Arlie Hochschild, has a few things to say about the general topic of family life and child care…
Ivy Guilt and Heartland Vice
Finally, a reckoning: Drew Gilpin Faust, President of Harvard, fesses up: At this moment in our history, universities might well ask if they have in fact done enough to raise…
Dirt, Dollars, and Devices
Holland, MI. I confess: I hate farms. I hate everything about them. I hate the malodorous smells that take days to wash off. I hate the all-pervasive dirt which invades…
Nobel Gestures
The awarding of this year's Nobel Peace Prize on a man who has been President not even for 10 months (before that, briefly, a U.S. senator, and before that, briefly, a State…
Ending Political Science?
A missive has gone out across the land and globe from the Director of the American Political Science Association urgently alerting members of the Association that Senator Coburn (R-OK) has…
Does Red Toryism Have an American Future?
Stephen MacLean thinks the answer is yes. Is he right? At the very least, would the movement need another name? As our economic future contintues to unravel, perhaps it's time…
So What if it was the States that Centralized Health Care?
Adding to the many discussions thus far here at FPR about the ongoing health care debate, an open question, especially directed to Messrs Stegall, Medaille, and Iliff: How should a…
Who Run Barter Town?
Above: The Empire State Building lit red and yellow in honor of sixty years of Chinese Communism. Below: What is really going on ... "Say loud!"
Hitleresque?
FPR's friend and contributor on his home blog: The way I see it, unless you're a Friedmanesque fiscal conservative and genuinely believe that any possible health care reform which comes…
Globalization – the new Secularization Thesis?
Greet the newest columnist for "The Hoya," Georgetown's biweekly student newspaper. In today's column (which runs fortnightly), I question whether the current academic swooning over "globalization" is the newest iteration…
Turn the Other Cheeks
Rod Dreher says Pelosi is right to fret about political violence. He argues that it is evil to "lead people to believe [Obama is] a socialist conspiring to install an oligar(c)hy to rule…