By • Mar 16,2006

Catholic utopia?

Thoreau built a tiny house on the shores of Walden Pond to experience first-hand the application of his Transcendentalist principles. The Oneida Society maintained a community in New York in...

By • Mar 05,2006

A tribute to Harry Browne

On March 1, bestselling author and former Libertarian Party presidential candidate Harry Browne finally succumbed to a neurological disease. He was 72. I’m not claiming to have been a close...

By • Mar 05,2006

The price of overturning Roe v. Wade

Be careful what you wish for; you just might get it. Pro-life activists have waited over 30 years for the Supreme Court’s makeup to shift against Roe v. Wade, and...

By • Feb 26,2006

Crunchy-Cons

After the human waste and material destruction of WWII, Russell Kirk and Richard Weaver sallied forth with a political and moral traditionalism (an “anti-ideology”, in Kirk’s phrase) grounded in literary...