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  • March 25, 2015
    You may have noticed that Localist Roundup—FPR’s bi-weekly short post collecting articles of interest from across the internet—has vanished in…
  • March 20, 2015
    “In the first place, thanks to those who work it, the land bears not only the means for people to…
  • March 16, 2015
    Please join us for a Family in America Capitol Hill Symposium, cosponsored with the Front Porch Republic, a panel discussion…
  • March 12, 2015
    I have a long piece up at TheDC, more words than you probably wanted to read on the New Republic's…
  • March 11, 2015
    I have never thought much about the death of trees. Until today. I have thought about the death of farm…
  • March 5, 2015
    “Water now is turned to stone Nurse and I can walk upon; Still we find the flowing brooks In the…
  • March 3, 2015
    The mayor of Ithaca NY seems to have a good understanding of how to move cities in the right sorts of…
  • February 25, 2015
    “Again, one time Sophocles, who was Pericles’ fellow-commissioner in the generalship, was going on board with him, and praised the…
  • February 21, 2015
    From Reason, the excellent Jesse Walker locates American Sniper within a semi-nativist (if sometimes anti-native) American antiwar tradition. For what…
  • February 18, 2015
    "You are dust, and to dust you will return." Genesis Some images are striking reminders of death. There are few…
  • February 11, 2015
    “But among barbarians no distinction is made between women and slaves…” Aristotle, Politics Barbarians can be accused of a number…
  • February 10, 2015
    Some time ago a number of my Facebook friends, some who even claimed to be practicing Catholics, changed their profile…