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The Social Network Fantasy

In today’s Los Angeles Times, Neil Gabler has an insightful piece on the way in which the “gang of friends” has become the dominant social group on American television.
October 17, 2010

Colin Ward, R.I.P.

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

When Friendship and Fellowship Collide

Less happy for mother is the reality that the single soul, resulting from this communion of two bodies, receives nourishment from single-malt.
February 19, 2010

Facebook and Friendship

Whatever else you make of Facebook friendship, it underscores the great and significant discrepancy between: 1) the scale of contemporary life, and 2) the scale of friendship.
February 18, 2010

Civic Friendship

Is there a place for friendship in politics? According to ancient theory - one that continued well into modern times - not only should friendship be a main aim of…
Patrick Deneen
February 18, 2010

The Big Idea

With friends like this, you can have a world full of enemies at your back and it don't matter because your friend is your fortress.
February 16, 2010

Friendship with New England Reserve

As the half-savage neighbor in Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” says, “Good fences make good neighbors.”

On Friendship

Most of us require an extended social network to keep us mentally and morally awake, and for a laugh, too, and if these friends are people we can weave in…
Katherine Dalton
February 15, 2010