Hillsdale, MI.… This is a true story. It happened once upon a time in a place I do not now live.
After an arduous campaign I was elected to the city council in a small town that was growing very
November 2009
Rock Island, IL…
A little over eleven years ago my wife and I put our daughter, now almost twelve (and memorizing a poem a day), in her stroller and walked from our rented condo to take a look at the
Thanksgiving—or pre-Christmas, as it is known in marketing circles—is upon us, and between reading Truman Capote (“A Thanksgiving Visitor”) and Lydia Maria Child (“Thanksgiving Day”) and tossing around the football (but not to Tru or Mrs. Child, I hope), spare…
Claremont, CA…. Men of Western civilization, take note: David Brooks thinks that you – and he – are done for.
In a recent exchange with Gail Collins, published on The New York Times “Opinionator Blog,” Brooks makes an argument
Michael Lind over at Salon suggests a disparity between populism and the “liberal left.” Given Sarah Plain’s new book, in which she continues to posture as a populist (see Rod Dreher’s discussion on her cultural populism) as well as recent…
Wendell Berry will appear on this morning’s Diane Rehm Show. He is scheduled for the second hour of the show, beginning at 11 a.m. If you don’t receive the show on your local PBS station, the show is usually available…
[Cross-posted to In Medias Res]
I suppose Front Porch Republic is experiencing growing pains, because all the talk lately is about “what’s next?”–what cause, what platform, what principles or agenda or policy, if any, FPR should support? The ideas being…
Father Ian Boyd, C.S.B., great Chestertonian and Saskatchewan patriot, will speak on “Chesterton and America” at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, December 2, in the Chapel of the Good Shepherd at Seton Hall University. For information email theology@shu.edu . Highly recommended!…
“What a good country or a good squirrel should be doing is stashing away nuts for the winter. The United States is not only not saving nuts, it’s eating the ones left over from the last winter.” WILLIAM H. GROSS…
Apparently, agrarianism is the new urbanism for a growing number of twenty-somethings. Maybe the desire for a plot of one’s own is neither so quaint nor so rural as some may think.…
Holland, MI.… I heard many fine presentations at Notre Dame’s Center for the Study of Ethics and Culture from November 12-14, and one in particular that piqued my interest was delivered by Shawn Floyd of Malone University. Floyd addressed the
As reported in today’s New York Times, New Orleans plaintiffs in a civil suit against the U.S. Government are elated at a ruling that has held the Government liable for the floods resulting from the landfall of Hurricane Katrina in…
Claremont, CA…. In the current conversation on health care, we often hear that the crises of costs and coverage are problems that come with an aging population. OK. Fine.
What’s not fine is the assumption that because an aging
Kearneysville, WV. …This is a crucial moment in our nation’s history. People of all political stripes recognize that something is deeply amiss. Obama ran a successful campaign championing the idea of change even though the particulars were rather vague. And
