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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…

This term gets used too much. Whenever you are exiled to a curriculum committee run as fast as if you were asked to serve on a tax-cutting committee run by…

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…

The concluding installment of "Art and Beauty against the Politicized Aesthetic" has appeared on First Principles, a series of essays begun in hopes of analyzing and reforming American conservatism as…

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…

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.

I shall be giving a lecture on Eliot and Stoicism next week; FPR readers are invited.

Louis Auchincloss died January 26, 2010, aged 92. Most of the obits talk about his prolific writing career while working as a serious attorney until age 87. They also emphasize…

FPR in the Weekly Standard: Getting Under JPod's Skin

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…

Increase regulations or remove the safety net?

Jesse Walker has written a nice remembrance of the anarchist Colin Ward.

But what would bring Tiger back? Does anybody think he would go to confession? I mean, heck, Bill Clinton still thinks he has the moral upper hand on Ken Starr.

Does the idea of corporate personhood create a strange new god before which we prostrate ourselves?

The attorney representing four of the Americans who were being held in Haiti on kidnapping charges is FPR's Caleb Stegall.

"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…

Beans, Bibles, and bullets seem to be the watchwords of some members of the Tea Party movement. Are their fears legitimate?

A photographic essay depicting a week's worth of food consumed by families in various societies.

Of all the Valentine legends I've heard, my favorite is the one that martyred St. Valentine because he secretly married Roman soldiers against the order of the Emperor Claudius. It…

Does the goal of maximum economic efficiency undermine other more important goods?

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,…

Can national pride create national blind spots?

The future of the Tea Party is uncertain, but there are interesting possibilities.