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March 22, 2011

Frank Beckwith has an interesting little article over at "The Catholic Thing" on How Political Correctness Makes Us Dumb. Staying…

March 21, 2011

I recently received a song from Front Porch Republic reader Michael Johnathon. Michael is a Kentucky based folksinger, songwriter and…

March 18, 2011

A lawyer friend who specializes in this kind of thing alerts me to this decision, handed down earlier this week…

March 14, 2011

I'm a respondent in a Cato Unbound symposium devoted to a consideration of C. Bradley Thompson's recent book, Neoconservatism: An…

March 9, 2011

The first Ciceronian Society Conference will occur at the University of Virginia, March 17-20th. Our panels will examine issues related…

March 9, 2011

I grew up reading newspapers that serviced large metropolitan areas--the Denver Post and Tulsa World. Strangely, it was only after moving to…

March 7, 2011

Let me recommend the latest issue - as well as really all issues - of the very fine journal "Perspectives…

March 7, 2011

I'll be lecturing this Thursday, March 10, on the campus of Princeton University. My lecture title is entirely non-controversial: "The…

March 4, 2011

JL Strickland, former Alabama mill worker and self-proclaimed "Linthead Emeritus," on a boy and a town: two more casualties of…

March 3, 2011

As I predicted last October, the Supreme Court has made short work of the argument that the odious, bigoted, hateful,…

March 3, 2011

FPR, in conjunction with Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, MD, will be hosting a conference titled "Human Scale and…

March 3, 2011

On March 1, Wendell Berry was awarded one of the nation's Humanities Medals in a ceremony at the White House.…