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My own views would fall most accurately along the continuum between anarcho-capitalist and conservative-traditionalist...

Here’s a sign of the times: if you’re worried about what all these digital and internet technologies are going to do to books, you can join a movement to signal…

Let's just go all the way, folks.

Education should be a reason to come back.

What if we had more states?

A stay-at-home congress may serve constituents better.

Devon, PA.  The penultimate installment of "Art and Beauty against the Politicized Aesthetic" has now appeared at First Principles.  In Part V, I had treated of Jacques Maritain's theory of…

Here are some interesting numbers. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in October of 1999 there were 109,487,000 non-farm, private-sector jobs in the United States. 10 years later, there…

An article from last August's New Yorker which details the difficulty of maintaining teacher accountability in the New York Public schools. To wit, the combination of teacher's unions, massive bureaucracies,…

Devon, PA.  In the early pages of Jacques Maritain's Art and Scholasticism, he provides a philosophy of art that restores "art," in the sense of the fine arts, to its…

Karl Polyani noted that “Laissez-faire was planned; planning was not.” Planning was always an ad hoc response to the failures of capitalism and never constituted a single, rational response, but…

Hillsdale,MI. David the King ordered the beautiful Bathsheba to come to him because he could.    He also could have her husband killed, and sent the letter that condemned Uriah the…

An editorial in Politiken, Denmark's largest newspaper, states that Obama is greater then Jesus. And if you are perplexed by this remark, The Reformed Pastor, David Fishchler helps you understand…

"Jaywalking" is a hilarious and terrifying sketch in which Jay Leno "tests" fellow Americans on their basic knowledge of history, geography, etc. Of course, we see the most outrageously incorrect…

Well, at least this is the suggestion of the perceptive Jason V. Joseph at "Musings in the Public Square," who offers a succinct and clarifying summary of the disagreement between…

I have long thought there was no more corrupt person in college football than Jim Tressel, but I am conceding the honor to Brian Kelly, the new head football coach…

The Prince of Peace---rather a seditious title in our age of Homeland Security and endless war, eh? "Love thy neighbor" and "Thou Shalt Not Kill" were  no less subversive 95 years ago, when…

As reported in today's Washington Post, in an article entitled "In Debate Over Nation's Growing Debt, a Surplus of Worry." Leonard Burman, [a Syracuse University ] economist, says he has…

In Greenwich at Rush Hour and thinking Kauffman's suggestion to go see Father Boyd speak his wisdom on Chesterton a good one, I reluctantly headed further into the maw of…

Patrick just posted that the great man himself was heard describing Michelle ma' Belle's kitchen garden as the "most important plot of land in America." Patrick tells me that in…

From today's edition of Inside Higher Education: In remarks kicking off a White House forum on job creation and the economy, President Obama repeatedly stressed the role of higher education.…

Claremont, CA. Men of Western civilization, take note: David Brooks thinks that you – and he – are done for. In a recent exchange with Gail Collins, published on The…

Wendell Berry will appear on this morning's Diane Rehm Show. He is scheduled for the second hour of the show, beginning at 11 a.m. If you don't receive the show…

Father Ian Boyd, C.S.B., great Chestertonian and Saskatchewan patriot, will speak on "Chesterton and America" at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, December 2, in the Chapel of the Good Shepherd at Seton…