Asides

July 12, 2009

As so often seems to be the case, the Monty Python troop somehow managed to make Matthew Crawford's point about…

July 11, 2009

Several years ago I (sarcastically) noted a hot trend in the DC Metropole - the outsourcing of many mundane tasks…

July 10, 2009

Thanks to FPR reader and my fellow Hoosier Brandon Seitz for pointing us to The Daily Yonder, a webzine dedicated…

July 10, 2009

Joe Carter weighs in at First Things with a set of challenging reservations about the relevance of Matt Crawford's arguments…

July 8, 2009

I must apologize to all our readers and my fellow contributors here for the intrusion of my cousin Cassie Pigeon in…

July 5, 2009

"We live on the far side of a broken connection" Wendell Berry has written.  One of the greatest obstacles resulting…

July 5, 2009

The following is not intended to upset our happily balanced ecumenical apple cart ... As a Scots-Presbyterian of old psalm singing…

July 5, 2009

Pope Benedict XVI's eagerly awaited third encyclical was released today:  "Charity in Truth."  I'll be reading it over the next…

June 27, 2009

Good Lord, blogging is bad for the soul.  That is a confession, not a violation of the Third Commandment, for…

June 27, 2009

I've been accused (at least by association) by so many pomocon partisans of being pro-Obama, I'm almost starting to believe…

June 26, 2009

As Caleb has already noted here, Rusty Reno and Jody Bottum have been mixing it up over at First Things…

June 26, 2009

Let it not be said that FPR indiscriminately supports "localism." I believe that all my compatriots here would agree that…