Πιστεύω είς ενα Θεόν …
May 2010
Your body’s yours, just as this poem is mine: to make, destroy—a tenancy of will, for every citizen and concubine.
Creeping Tyranny: From Constitutionalism to Arbitrary Power
The great libertarian journalist Jesse Walker calls this Cold War liberal folkery (http://reason.com/blog/2010/05/27/you-hit-me-baby-like-an-atomic) “the most earnest song ever written.” Hilariously bad. Enjoy! …
Besides, the harshest criticisms of any place come from those who truly love and belong to it.
The hubris of ingratitude is a caustic acid that reduces all in its wake to the fetid condition of servitude, for a spoiled child needs nothing so much as a master.
Legendary investor Seth Klaman on how the government has taught everyone a bad lesson.
Soon-to-be-former United States Senator from Utah, Bob Bennett, gives some advice to the Tea Party activists who helped unseat him at Utah GOP convention: don’t be like Jimmy Carter, be like Ronald Reagan. I think he has it exactly backwards:…
Bringing sustainable food growing practices to the urban poor.
Just then a grey cat, a male, came out from behind a large potted plant. It sniffed Todd and turned its back toward him. Suddenly its raised tail quivered, and deep dark spots appeared on Todd’s magenta silk shirt.
It seemed a good time to get out and leave the classroom to idiots who couldn’t learn and didn’t know better, and imbeciles who couldn’t teach and should have known better.
We are here, in part, because choices made in big places have worked against rural places and rural people.
It turns out locally-produced food is not only good for the body, but the spirit – especially the human capacity to intuit the sanctity of the world.
Is organic food merely a luxury item for the self-satisfied and affluent west?
The Cato Institute sponsors a symposium on Philip Blond, with a lead essay by yours truly.
Wendell Berry turns his attention toward an intentional spill in Kentucky.
