David French, who joined Jonah Goldberg and Steve Hayes to create the recently launched Dispatch is ” convinced that the more we politicize the crisis [in community] rather than personalize it…
Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online questions politically motivated responses to the latest mass shootings. America is sick. Just about everybody recognizes it, and we didn’t need two more mass…
Kyle Smith ponders at National Review Online the relationship between two pillars of American society. For a large cohort of Americans, our workplaces are our principal communities — where we…
Professor Paul Sracic of Youngstown State University in Ohio ponders the role of community in voters’ decision to elect Donald Trump as president. A lot of ink has been spilled…
Can we save the small towns and rural areas that are losing people to booming metropolitan areas? Gracy Olmstead explores the options and some of the overlooked costs and benefits…
The American Enterprise Institute has compiled an interesting set of essays touting the virtues of pursuing local solutions to society’s major challenges. Some of the contributors assess the merits of…
Russ Roberts is one of the most thoughtful and articulate economists around, whether in rap videos, animated poems, novels, or his weekly EconTalk podcast. A recent conversation he had with Martha…
When someone falls, you help pick ’em up.
Today would be a nice day to apologize for the not-so-nice things I said recently about the small rural town of Marshall, NC. I arrived at the bank to find…
Sewer work on my street today. Neighbors coming out in a wide variety of housewear to move cars. One neighbor had a dead battery, so a little teamwork was involved…
There were some incredible quotes in Killian’s