Alexandria, VA …The other night I happened to catch the second half of an ABC special program, “Earth 2100.” The program was a “speculative history” of what the world might look like at the end of this century if humankind
June 2009
Check out this exceptionally fine speech http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ronald-maxwell/on-the-occasion-of-presid_b_212674.html by film director Ron Maxwell (Gettysburg, Gods and Generals), who refused to allow William (“inherited utility monopoly wealth means never having to say you’re sorry”) Ayers & Co. to bully him out of…
Many involved in Front Porch Republic embrace the idea of a smallholder economy based on family production under conditions of widespread ownership of productive resources. This was the vision of a moral economy held by the more radical republicans among…
Quick quiz … who said/wrote the above quote this week? No Googling!…
Claremont, CA…. Becka flew into my office, so excited that she was out of breath. “Professor,” she asked, “have you heard about freedom?”
I couldn’t help laughing. “Why yes, Becka,” I replied. “As a political scientist, I have heard
Devon, PA. …Much like Jeremy Beer, I have found that FPR has led me to look at ‘Blogs almost for the first time in my life. I have run across much of interest there, especially to the extent that some attentive
Devon, PA.… Thanks in part to the series of fine essays John Médaille has provided us during the last several weeks, the implicit economic vocabulary on the Front Porch has added to that of the Agrarian that of
Blairsville, GA.… The corporation is a central part of our economy. In fact, some have argued that our economic system is accurately identified as corporate capitalism, for the values and prejudices of the corporate system cast their shadows over the
ROCK ISLAND, IL … It wasn’t in accord with the prescribed methods of preparing myself for the Sacred Mysteries that I arose last Sunday to knock off, in the pre-Auroral hour, the last thirty pages of Flannery: A Life of Flannery
I learned tonight, courtesy of American Media’s Marketplace, that there is a letter-writing campaign currently afoot protesting the organic garden that was planted and is tended by Mrs. Obama. The campaign’s proponent is “CropLife” – an agricultural “media group” whose…
IRS says they want power to decide who prepares your tax returns.
H$R Block cheers.…
[Cross-posted to In Medias Res]
Wichita, Kansas…
We feared that we’d missed out on fresh strawberries this year, both because there was an early April freeze and snowstorm that killed off the (admittedly meager) supply of strawberries that our own
Dallas, TX.… In the last installment, we maintained that the only means to economic equilibrium was the just wage: unless each person gets a fair proportion of the wealth he produces, there will not be enough purchasing power in the
Alexandria, VA …Andrew Cherlin – the Benjamin H. Griswold III Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at Johns Hopkins University – has written an important new book on marriage in America entitled The Marriage-Go-Round. (You can hear Cherlin discuss his
