RINGOES, NJ.… In 1944 two very different but related books were published. The first was F.A. Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom. In a world that seemed to be succumbing to the socialist ideal, where planned economies represented a glorious
April 2009
Mt. Airy, Philadelphia.… Before it became a science of supply and demand and the circulation of commodities, economics was originally understood as the wisdom of household management. The Greek word oikonomia derives from oikos (household) and nomos (the governing ordering
JEFFERSON COUNTY, KANSAS. …In small town America, business owners get to sponsor everything from the high school wrestling team to the “pride committee” chili cook off. One of the events my law practice regularly sponsors is the annual Jefferson County
USAToday has a piece on folks who are simplifying their lives as a response to the economic troubles here.
For those interested in some concrete advice, see this piece on homesteading in Mother Earth News here.
h/t Rachel Blum…
First, let me extend my greetings to the readers of the Front Porch Republic. I have been following conversations here at FPR since it launched earlier this year and find myself resonating with its mission. So needless to say I…
FPR readers should certainly check out the American Conservative today. First, they have a new essay up by Dermot Quinn on the relationship of Wilhelm Ropke’s ideas to the current economic crisis. And Sean Scallon’s piece on Jimmy Carter’s inaptly…
Claremont, CA …- I don’t know how to tie a tie. But now I know that I am not alone.
Do this: On Google, type “how to” – or even just “how” – into the search window. Google will tell
His moment in the spotlight lasted about as long as the hiss of a struck match, but what a bright moment it was. And now Mark The Bird Fidrych is dead.
In 1976 my pal Mark Buis and I sat…
ROCK ISLAND The willful mispronunciation of “Jesus” by preachers apparently embarrassed by the name provides ample occasion for—you guessed it—ridicule. The Name Unlike any Other usually comes off sounding something like “cheese sauce.” You can’t swing a dead possum by…
Russell Arben Fox remembers well his thrifty grandmother, and so do I, and so do you, perhaps. For the rest of the nation there is Amy Dacyczyn of Leeds, Maine, the founder, publisher, and primary author of The Tightwad Gazette.…
A couple of young, progressive liberals (Kevin Mattson and Ezra Klein) note what too many mainstream American politicians and pundits have conveniently forgotten: that President Jimmy Carter’s “malaise” speech–his thoughtful, brave, reflective call to America to embrace (or rather recover)…
RINGOES, NJ. …March Madness is finally over. And for the first time in years, I actively participated in the madness. For most of our married life, my wife and I have shunned television. But we are renting a house in
Creation accompanies destruction. As something old dies, something new is born. Even Scripture attests to this, saying, “Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.”1…
I recently received a handsome, newly published copy of the book America Through European Eyes, published by Penn State University Press and edited by Jeffrey Isaac and Aurelian Craiutu. Chesterton built (if intellectually) a sizeable portion of this Front…
PHOENIX, ARIZONA…. Today is opening day, and how sweet it is. But nine days from now comes the most annoying day on the Major League Baseball schedule, when the league will engage in the annual display of self-congratulatory,
