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Fifty Dollar Tomato

Hillsdale, MI. When I first thought about writing this it was the “Ten Dollar Tomato.”  But historians are more or less required to tell the truth, and it now costs…
December 10, 2009

Aristotle and the Cult of the Immediate

In the current economic and political crisis, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is not likely to be one of the first places that Americans go looking for wisdom. It should be. Throughout…
June 29, 2009

What the Fork; Or, Why You Should Not Eat the Person Sitting Next to You

  Alexandria, VA . The causes of the current economic collapse have been widely discussed and minutely explored.  However, to date I do not believe that I have yet seen…
Patrick Deneen
March 8, 2009