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Devon, PA.  Joe Carter, over at the First Things web page, offers a reflection on Ron Paul's pro-life credentials and how they square -- or rather, in Carter's opinion, how…

Late last week I received notice that jolly Prince Charles will be speaking at Georgetown on the future of food, fresh from his oldest son's nuptials. While that news was…

Imagine designing a city for people rather than cars: Curitiba, Brazil

With avidity and pleasure I’ve been reading American Georgics: Writings on Farming, Culture, and the Land, a collection of excerpts in the American agrarian tradition edited by Edwin C. Hagenstein,…

Devon, PA.  Mark T. Mitchell's powerful essay on Jane Austen in the age of porn coincides with an interesting news item on Inside Higher Ed.  A group called the Young…

No, not legs. They're so 20th Century. The good people at Honda, responding to the crisis of people having to move their feet or stand on them, have developed a…

Our return to a distinctively modern form of paganism is nearly complete - a teacher at a Seattle school approved a "hunt" for round object containing sweets and surprises on…

Little Village Academy, a public school in Chicago, has banned sack lunches. Unless they can produce a medical excuse, all students are required to purchase lunch in the school's cafeteria…

Does it matter what kind of seeds you plant in your garden? Here is an article explaining why heirloom seeds are the way to go. One advantage is the fact…

Devon, PA.  All you who are in the Pittsburg/eastern Ohio region would be most welcome at the talking and reading I shall give this Friday at the Franciscan University of…

Spring training is over, and I find myself at loose ends. Since moving to Phoenix a few years back, this has become the saddest time of the year for me.…

Those Front Porchers in the Indianapolis-Fort Wayne area might want to attend the ISI Conference, "Whose Capitalism? Which Free Market?: Exploring the Moral Dimensions of the Market Economy," Saturday, April…

The always-interesting Tony Esolen has an article over at First Things called "Restoring the Village" which I highly recommend to those concerned about place, liberty and limits. One recalls that…

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…

Reason magazine's Jesse Walker notes an outbreak of nullification, dairy-style, in Maine:  http://reason.com/blog/2011/03/22/food-nullification

You cannot slit your wrists. It says so, right here in your employment contract. And besides, we've installed suicide netting on all of our buildings. So if you manage to…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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.

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…