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FPR, in conjunction with Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, MD, will be hosting a conference titled "Human Scale and the Human Good: Creating Healthy Communities in a Global Age." …

On March 1, Wendell Berry was awarded one of the nation's Humanities Medals in a ceremony at the White House. This article relates his charming and ever-humble response to the…

On March 2, 2009, FPR was born. We've been going for two years now and our mission remains clear: to advance human flourishing through the promotion of political decentralism, economic…

California, we are told, will have a $25 billion budget deficit over the next 20 months. However, they seem to be caught in a trap. If they were to actually…

Welcome, March! William Cullen Bryant saw through your bluster: For thou, to northern lands again, The glad and glorious sun dost bring, And thou hast joined the gentle train And…

There are plenty of reasons to lament, but here is a reason to hope. A school in Texas reaches out to some unlikely opponents and shows how a community can…

For those in the LA area, Pepperdine University will be hosting an intriguing conference on the idea of place. The conference is titled A Place in the World: Geography, Identity,…

Young people are questioning the upwardly mobile aspirations of their parents. Many are opting to put down roots. This is a good sign.

Join in this debate between myself and Brian Domitrovic (Econoclasts) at the ISI "First Principles" blog.

Commitment to a place is an important idea. But in the face of complete social breakdown, is there any place left to salvage?

Cisco is boasting that its new communications technology will change the way we engage others. Indeed, when a hologram of a man in California appears before an audience in India…

My lunch with Bill Clune is served at the American Conservative: http://www.amconmag.com/blog/meet-the-marlboro-man/.

I'm lecturing at Virginia Tech on Friday. Come on by.

My Eliot week, I should say. All Readers of good will are welcome to join in the talk fest.

Time to sell the SUV. And buy a farm.

Let the unwashed eat Doritos.

Is the internet an agent of freedom and liberation in the world?

In Buenos Aires guerrilla gardeners scatter seed bombs throughout the city.

Richard Wakefield’s book of poems takes its place as one more important and hard-won advance in the restoration of good poetry to our culture.

Review of MacIntyre's book.

Does the Kindle change the way we read so that what we read is in the process changed?

I may be holding forth on a porch near you. All ye of good will are invited.

We are paying for the sexual revolution in more ways than one.

How to feel good about yourself on $50,000 a day.