Claremont, CA.… Wendell Berry, writer and farmer and hero to the people, might move from the farmhouse to the big house.
Speaking at one of the USDA’s National Identification System (NAIS) “listening sessions,” Berry told the crowd that he would
June 2009
[Cross-posted to In Medias Res]
Wichita, KS…
Blogger though I am, I can’t deny that there is a major advantage to arguments conducted through the slower media of paper (to say nothing of peer-reviewed publishing): because the length of time
In the current economic and political crisis, Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is not likely to be one of the first places that Americans go looking for wisdom. It should be. Throughout the book readers find a wealth of knowledge and practical…
A few impressions on the state of play.
1. Agree with JMW that this exchange has not been very helpful, and reiterate first thought that “comments” maximize tedium and minimize conviviality.
2. Then again, I’m sure the exchange is encouraging…
Good Lord, blogging is bad for the soul. That is a confession, not a violation of the Third Commandment, for those of you keeping track. What am I doing in front of this glowing square of light when there are…
I’ve been accused (at least by association) by so many pomocon partisans of being pro-Obama, I’m almost starting to believe it myself. So here’s great news. Obama’s much-publicized concern about our obesity problem has spawned suggestions, yes even on national…
As Caleb has already noted here, Rusty Reno and Jody Bottum have been mixing it up over at First Things over issues of localism, a hot topic of late on the internets, it would seem. Rusty asserts that “patriotism is…
Let it not be said that FPR indiscriminately supports “localism.” I believe that all my compatriots here would agree that this is one “locality” that cannot be defended. Maybe that’s because it’s the sort of “locality” that no one has…
Some heat and even some light have been generated in the numerous comments that followed upon my original posting in which I threw some gauntlets around. However, some inevitable reductionism has taken place (on all sides), and so I tried…
Jody Bottum says the problem with localists is that they’re all raving racists. O goody, let’s get down to brass tacks.
It’s bizzare how Bottom’s problem with localism is traceable once again to his cultural snobbery towards folk music. First it was the…
My review of Jonathan Zimmerman’s Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory appears in today’s Wall Street Journal (“In One Room, Many Advantages”). The book is well worth reading. Among other things, I learned that Gus Edwards, composer…
Devon, PA.… I have had only a few hours to appreciate the spectacle of talking-heads devouring the carrion of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford’s political career, but have heard thrice already a rather predictable denunciation from rather predictable
Cold Spring, NY–It’s getting worse and worse, and the wizards don’t have a clue. They don’t even know the economy is broken-and can’t be fixed. That’s why they keep doing more of the same with the same old solutions and…
New Castle, Kentucky.… “Simplify, simplify,” said Henry David Thoreau in one of his more peaceable moments, and I repeat it through gritted teeth as I watch the layered complexity that is Mr. Obama’s solution for all the many crises he has inherited. We
Hey, JP opened the door.…
