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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…