Writers & Poets

David Brooks offers an unstinting positive assessment of Phillip Blond's alternative to the current Left/Right alignment.

Matthew J. Milliner explicates "Art and Beauty," while Dana Gioia wins Notre Dame's Laetare Medal

Phillip Blond to lecture in Washington D.C and Philadelphia - thanks to FPR

Is there a place for friendship in politics? According to ancient theory - one that continued well into modern times - not only should friendship be a main aim of politics, but without that aim, a distinctly modern form of tyranny is the likely result.

Lovers of snow and cold are qualitatively different from the lovers of sun and surf; they are different moral beings altogether.

Men cut off from their origins and alienated from their selves become desperate, and desperate men do desperate deeds.

But as a profound poet trying to make a comfortable living I can’t really trouble myself about that fit audience though few. . . . Were I to start thinking about poetry in the social context, I’d be sliding down that slippery slope toward place, limits, and liberty. And then what? Localism? God help us!

He is resigned to the inertia of the old Spanish cult, and willing to just let it fade away. The voluptuousness of European culture had no way to gain traction in the purity of the New Mexican desert.

Devon, PA. My old friend and classmate, Jeremiah Chamberlin, writes in to the FPR ombudsman of a new venture he has undertaken to help...