October 2010

Talkin’ Pauken

by James Matthew Wilson on October 30, 2010 · 0 comments

in Short

At last, true localist and traditional voice from the land of Ron Paul and George Bush.

RP

What does it mean to be a Kentuckian, or a Kentucky senator? Does place have any place in a national election?

There’s a deep and revealing purpose to figuring out if you’re an elitist or not, though I’m not sure this quiz actually gets at it.

FPR is the future.

appalachian dulcimer

Our region became, unwittingly, the domestic front of what is now surely a global energy war.

Stoner

If there’s one thing we have in higher education today it’s a superfluity of bluster.

Bedouin_Resting

Peace is a Jinn. It is that thing we are always in search of, but never enough to forget our accumulated envious resentments of those who are not like us.

The chance to see Berry, Jackson, and Scott Russell Sanders all at once should appeal to Front Porchers at the Crossroads.

Grass heads

Planting a greener Green Revolution.

Those so blessed by the Good Lord as to be within hailing (or driving) distance of Batavia, New York, might want to drop by the Pokadot diner tonight at 8 for our 14th annual “Batavia Reads John Gardner” evening. Details…

Meat grinder-1

Does food have a context of time and place?, or, How to make your own sausage.

See an FPR author in a venue near you.

First Interstate Jeezis gets taken out by lightning. Now the Hour of Power takes a shower. How much more of this can we endure?…

McCain

Harry Reid’s election in Nevada is all about an argument over the direction of the American system. Would that we could argue about the nature of that system instead.

Peter Thiel

by Caleb Stegall on October 21, 2010 · 7 comments

in Short

It may turn out that both intellectual development and the pursuit of filthy lucre are best pursued without the millstone of a college degree (and the debts, both monetary and intellectual, that come with it).

Does the risk-free security of a screen hamper the development of real friendships?