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June 14, 2015

Why Evelyn Waugh stopped voting Parochial plug for the best state, from Nathaniel Beverley Tucker: The Virginian is a Virginian…

June 11, 2015

Damon Linker had a piece at The Week yesterday, explaining "How to save liberal arts education." From the article: The structural…

June 9, 2015

Yesterday, The Atlantic ran a piece called, "'I've Never Thanked My Parents for Anything.'" The author--Deepak Singh--explains the differences between…

June 8, 2015

Adam Gurri on persuasion and economics Henry George vs. Jane Jacobs The Upper East Side housewife: a pop-anthropological study With…

June 4, 2015

There's a piece at Vox by Edward Schlosser (a pseudonym) entitled "I'm a liberal professor, and my liberal students terrify me."…

June 3, 2015

Somewhere between three and seven readers of FPR will be pleased to hear that I have launched a new website…

June 1, 2015

Founding editor Jeremy Beer has just had his very important The Philanthropic Revolution: An Alternative History of American Charity published…

May 28, 2015

Two articles caught the attention of my Porcher sensibilities today. The first was a piece in the New York Times on urban…

May 27, 2015

“Some have affirmed that bees possess a share Of the divine mind and drink ethereal draughts; For God, they say,…

May 26, 2015

The Atlantic ran a piece this morning on how a California-based company called HopeLab is trying to make layoffs and…

May 24, 2015

From "Homeschooling and Christian Duty," by Sally Thomas, in First Things: The idea of sending a child daily into a hostile…

May 23, 2015

Though far, in its main argument, from the central concerns of the Porch, some readers may be interested in my…