Asides

November 16, 2011

I will be lecturing tomorrow, Thursday, November 17 at the University of Texas at Austin. My lecture is entitled "Why…

November 14, 2011

Video of the September 24, 2011 conference at Mount St. Mary's University is now up on You Tube. Search for…

November 9, 2011

How can there be a social contract when the contract's parties disagree sharply regarding its meaning?

November 7, 2011

Devon, PA.  As I announced some months back, Front Porch Republic will return to the University of Notre Dame this…

November 6, 2011

Mobility is the great undiagnosed sickness afflicting America. All of our ruling class and most of our writing class consist…

October 26, 2011

Devon, PA.  Peter Haworth has rightly drawn our attention to the new Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace document, "Towards…

October 26, 2011

Readers of this site might be interested in a recent Daily Yonder newsstory on job creation in southeastern Ohio.  This Ford…

October 26, 2011

Those with a taste for rewarding conversation and exciting scholarship should take note, as should those fond of good bourbon,…

October 21, 2011

....we'll be reading aloud--for the fourteenth consecutive year--from the works of Batavia's native (if sometimes wayward) son John Gardner. Where?…

October 18, 2011

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: To claim that modern America is descending into paganism is grossly…

October 17, 2011

"If what you wish is merely to make a great splash, to be impressive and formidable, to influence other peoples…

October 13, 2011

No, not the tune by the Fabulous Poodles, but rather my memories of Peter H. Clune, who was gunned down…