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"When small men cast long shadows, you know the sun is setting." Lao Tzu

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…

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…

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…

My new book is an anthology of writings on economic liberty. Unfortunately, I'm not actually able to read the published edition, since it is in Romanian. My co-editor, Dr. Ovidiu…

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…

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!"

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…

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…

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…

Norman Borlaug has died, and Joe Carter calls him the world's greatest unknown hero and says that "few men have ever done more good for the human race."  He links…

Wichita, KS I just returned from my near-annual pilgrimage to the American Political Science Association's annual convention...this year held, ironically enough, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I didn't mind--it meant I'd…

Ah, September.  The enervating heat of August is less, and school starts up again with all the hopefulness and energy of a new academic year.  I still feel the year…

We set up here on the porch six months ago today. Many words later, it's still a nice place to relax and shoot the breeze. To mark the occasion, a…

This fellow has some nice things to say about what we've been up to here on the porch. So let me return the favor and thank him, first, for noticing,…

Our fellow Porcher Rod Dreher says Dick Cheney is an outlaw. Of course he is right, after a certain manner of speaking, and I have no particular comment one way…

Devon, PA.  During the next few months, I shall be writing on the centrality of beauty and art to a flourishing human life in general, to a sound theology, and…

From the indispensable Joe Bageant: "Dottie is doping out the Romney [WV] medical establishment for me: 'These Indians or Pakis or whatever they are run the hospital like it was…

From The American Conservative---you really should subscribe, you know---my piece (www.amconmag.com/article/2009/sep/01/00050/) on the great Kentucky actor Warren Oates.

If you listen to mainstream "conservatives" in America today, the poster-boy for the movement is, of course, Ronald Reagan. "We need a new Reagan revolution" they spout. "We need to…

68 apparently.  I had to laugh when I saw this.  I recognize many of them as my interlocutors from the old New Pantagruel days.  And if I learned anything, it…

Posted originally as a comment to Patrick Deneen's "Road Rage" (and re-posted here at his insistence): The State of Oregon Highway Comm. had a wonderful engineer named Conde McCullough who…

Here is an interview from The Guardian. Blond has the ear of David Cameron, calls himself a Red Tory, and is launching a new think tank in the fall. Do…