Norman Borlaug has died, and Joe Carter calls him the world’s greatest unknown hero and says that “few men have ever done more good for the human race.” He links to another calling Borlaug the greatest human being ever.
Borlaug,…
September 2009
A couple of years ago, I wrote a piece on Philip Rieff for the American Conservative. One of the themes of Rieff’s work on which I focused was his concept of anti-culture—the idea that in the twentieth-century West there had…
Via The American Conservative, a few thoughts on the land of three downs: www.amconmag.com/article/2009/oct/01/0050/.…
made once again by Jesse Walker, in re the prez and the kids. He says here in about 400 words just about everything that needs to be and should be said about the “bipartisan cult of the presidency.”…
“The Christian right,” says Jacqueline Salmon of the Washington Post, “has found new life with Barack Obama in office, particularly around health care.”
Salmon points to the bevy of “Christian conservative” organizations that rallied to oppose Obama’s September 9th speech…
Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, 9-11-09.… Eight years ago today, and in the days immediately following, Americans found themselves bewildered. An unprecedented mood had fallen upon them, an unfamiliar atmosphere surrounded them. It was hard to identify or even describe. It seemed
Devon, PA.… This week marks my daughter’s third birthday. As a way of tossing a little Front Porch confetti her way, I reprint here “A Prayer for Livia Grace at Christmas,” which originally appeared in Modern Age (Spring
It has been a year since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, and the subsequent near-collapse of the international economic system followed quickly by the massive increase of (at least visible) central government presence in nearly every aspect of our economic…
Frank Rich asks a reasonable question: what does Joe Wilson, “that South Carolina clown,” call the Republican governor of his own state?
But if Mr. Wilson wants less prevarication in all this talk of health care reform, he should insist…
Rock Island, IL.… Pretty close to twenty years ago I spent a beery evening with a buddy who on that day had turned forty. At the time forty seemed a large number to both of us, larger to him than
This post is dangerously close to turf already claimed by Bill Kaufman and Jason Peters. But the appeal of Richard Russo is so strong that if FPR readers do not know about the contemporary novelist who sets many of his…
Jefferson County, Kansas. …The following is a short excerpt from a longer essay in the forthcoming book The Humane Vision of Wendell Berry, co-edited by our own Mark Mitchell. Mark it down on your purchase list for next year.
After utility,
Holland, MI. The beginning of the college football season is the closest thing to a state holiday in Michigan. The release of the new auto line might have at one time sent a frisson of excitement through our spines, but now …
Washington, Ct.… In his wonderful 1974 book entitled The Roots of American Order, Russell Kirk remarks upon the British and how they are able to “muddle through” periods of social unrest or national tribulation without major incident. It wasn’t always
A new semester begins at Georgetown and around the country, a delicious time of early Fall anticipation of possibility and the unexpected – at least until the second week of classes.
I return to the classroom after a year’s sabbatical,…
“Hontar: We must work in the world, your eminence. The world is thus.
Altamirano: No, Señor Hontar. Thus have we made the world. Thus have I made it.”
From The Mission
Cincinnati, OH. I’m not convinced the Internet has irreparably …
