New Castle, Kentucky.… We can’t talk about the economy all the time, or anyway I can’t. Today instead I want to sing a song of the literature of place–and my refrain is, “Bred and born in a briar-patch.”
For someone who believes in autonomous
April 2009
I’ve been reviewing a number of the online offerings of Chris Martenson, whose “crash course” on contemporary economics was made known to me on a recent “Kunstlercast.” I was particularly taken by this chapter, on the extremely recent nature of…
I’m willing to bet that in all likelihood, a large majority of those reading this site do not have kind feelings for retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter, assuming they have any opinion of him at all. For a certain…
Mt. Pleasant, SC…–As little as I wished to make my first post for FPR an overtly political essay on contemporary affairs–I had meant to rumination growing up in a small village attendant upon farmlands in upstate New York–I was
My piece, titled as above, on the future of publishing, and particularly “conservative” publishing, is up now for subscribers at the American Conservative. You should subscribe. It’s worth it — not for my piece, but for the others. Here’s a…
Jeremy Beer (with flaccid cigar and look of bewilderment, left) and the Bar Jester Himself, Chez Peters, aka Tap O’ The Morning (photo by My Lady Scrutiny)
ROCK ISLAND … A boy was sitting on a curb shaking a can of
Claremont, CA… – The first thing you see, when you enter the Memphis Rock N Soul Museum, is a front porch.
This front porch is a dilapidated thing, decorated with a few old barrels. Nearby lie the accoutrements of tenant
ERIE, PA. As a new contributor to the Front Porch Republic, I would like to thank Mark Mitchell for his invitation to participate in what is shaping up to be a thoughtful exchange of important ideas.
My April contribution is…
Wichita, KS…
I was born in 1968, and my childhood was the 1970s. My family lived, during those years, in five different homes (all in the same county, though, so it’s not like we were moving great distances…just trying to
JEFFERSON COUNTY, KANSAS. …The review below was first published in the Intercollegiate Review in the fall of 2006. Look Homeward, America was my first introduction to the work of the man who currently holds (until he falls out of it)
ROCK ISLAND I never know what sort of student protest or demonstration I’ll see when I get to campus in the morning. Today I was greeted by a tree from which dangled various contraceptives, both mechanical and pharmaceutical. Affixed to…
The Bar Jester is nearly as funny as Jeremy’s limp cigar and Carrie Nation look of shocked indignation at the beverage he has just been served. And this bit
By my lights this is biblical precedent for never calling your enemy…
I posted this piece at What I Saw In America on Friday last; for any readers of both these sites, I apologize for the redundancy. However, I think this posting is highly relevant to the discussions here on the porch……
Via a friendly reader, comes a link to this fine and wise comment about the important role which public transportation ought to play in the minds of anyone who is concerned about “conserving” the good things in our daily lives.…
In case you missed it, 2009 is the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth. Earlier this week I participated in a roundtable discussion on Lincoln’s legacy sponsored by Messiah College and the Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.. In the five minutes I had…
