Burgers and fries and sun dresses and pale ale and summer reading on the brain and the buzz of human life!
June 2010
This spring, Joel Salatin spoke at Patrick Henry College on “Food: The Cornerstone of Christian Credibility.” I’m happy to be able to make an audio recording of this lecture available to the Front Porch. Listen here.…
That some “progressives” may be conservatives, while most “conservatives” are actually progressives.
In a wonderful little essay on Calvin Coolidge (Calvin Coolidge: Puritanism de Luxe) written in 1926, Walter Lippmann described the president as having mastered the “technique of anti-propaganda” by sapping public interest in government, by deflating enthusiasm for programs, projects,…
I hope that a Porcher will react at length to today’s dispiriting, but not too surprising, Supreme Court ruling in CLS v. Martinez, which upheld a public institution’s — the University of California’s, in this case — right to exclude…
I was just a boy with spindly limbs and boney knees, but I knew the importance of stories, so I sat with my grandparents on the porch, and drank sweet tea, and listened to them talk.
Wendell Berry explains his break with the University of Kentucky.
Over on the hip lefty Sojourner’s blog, Chris Rice douses the fires of American sin with the holy waters of sanctimony in an entry ominously and alliteratively titled: “The War, the Well, and the Wall.” In the process, he demonstrates that Krustianity is…
If you love place, limits, liberty, and think they are words that have meaning, you are probably conservative, and should honor that word also.
I don’t think the University of Kentucky can be so ostentatiously friendly to the coal industry … and still be a friend to me and the interests for which I have stood for the last 45 years.
For the turnip, truth be told, though lovely, is like a student you don’t hold out much hope for but who somehow manages to turn himself to good account.
Jayber seemed like a good name for this bald, homeless bird.
What a trifling thing it is to control man! How easily we believe in fairy tales when they come cloaked in the black box of authority and superior knowledge.
My review of Eric Jaffe’s The King’s Best Highway is in today’s Wall Street Journal.
Nostalgia is, therefore, an index of alienation, communal decrepitude, and, at high levels, cultural patricide.
Progressives must re-learn to advocate for community self-determination, and work to link political activity on this level to national politics.
