Williamston, MI…
If the woodchuck hasn’t been dead too long, you can usually carry him by the tail and toss him into some nether region of the woods, there to be ingested by creatures of less discriminating tastes.
The first
August 2009
I will admit that I did not keep up with all of the discussion that ensued from various blogs that tried to discern the differences between folks that write over at First Things’ blogs and those who do so at…
The following is excerpted from Paul Gottfried’s Encounters: My Life with Nixon, Marcuse, and Other Friends and Teachers, recently published by ISI Books.
I met Christopher Lasch for the first time at a lecture that he gave at Case Western…
Kearneysville, WV.… Question: what do these two books have in common? A Garfield the Cat book and My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One Night Stands. Or what about these: A book on Mother Teresa’s spirituality and Holy S**T: The
Irving, TX.… We have all been trained up to the belief that jobs are something in the gift of great corporations or government bureaucracies. True, there are still places in the economy for the small businessman or -woman, the sole
Amid Alexis de Tocqueville’s writings on revolution in France, there is a passage that rings true for those of us who have spent time in the countryside. He observed that however lively affairs of state might seem, it is often…
Last week, Philip Bess – the noted Notre Dame University scholar of architecture – delivered a lecture in Washington under the auspice of the group “Conservatism on Tap.” Bess’s lecture was a first-rate summation of his book, Til We have…
Given domination of the Commonwealth’s institutions by progressivist ideology, it’s unsurprising how few Kentucky students and teachers are familiar with poet-novelist James Still and River of Earth (1940). After all, Still was of rural folk, and his novel uses the…
[Cross-posted to In Medias Res]
Wichita, KS…
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve written a few things on the current debate over health care reform. A couple of smart commenters on those posts got me thinking–or rather, forced to
Here is an interview from The Guardian. Blond has the ear of David Cameron, calls himself a Red Tory, and is launching a new think tank in the fall. Do his ideas translate to the US?…
Claremont, CA. …I spoke last week at the New Jersey Governor’s School for Public Issues, a (mostly) state-funded summer program for civic-minded students about to enter their senior year in high school. I went to the Governor’s School when I
Devon, PA.… Earlier this week, some devout and worthy reader on the Porch proposed G.K. Chesterton as the patron saint of the Front Porch Republic. Aside from heartily endorsing the idea, I was also reminded of a short essay
“Pray for the foothills,/goatherds and windmills/and satellite dishes” – Mark Heard
Cincinnati, OH.… A comment on my recent post on Hopi hospitality referred to “…satellite dishes on the stone and cinderblock houses on the mesas, as well as on the
Rock Island, IL…
In the 16th century Spenser reminded us that Nature is our Mother and Judge; in the 1970s Chiffon reminded us that it’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.
In 1994 we had reasons to rejoice. That was
I’m still on my summer blogging hiatus, but this artifact was too good to pass up. Seen at local post office this afternoon.…
Michael Pollan doesn’t know what he’s talking about and neither do the millions of his soft-handed readers. So says a farmer here. One wonders, though, what Wendell Berry and Joel Salatin would say to this fellow.
h/t Micah Towery.…
