Interest in agrarian politics can start in childhood. As feminists used to say, “The personal is political.”
May 2011
May 27 is the 100th anniversary of the birthday of Hubert Horatio Humphrey. Jesse Walker has brought an interesting tribute by Rick Perlstein to my attention. It’s a perceptive analysis, as far as it goes.
It’s not complete, though, because…
Devon, PA.… Everyone seems to be in on, and to understand, the debate between FPR and Peter Lawler’s “postmodern conservatism” except me. I have made a few jokes and gestures in its direction, but that is because, as both Sts.
This week I have been lecturing at the Ignatianum Academy in Krakow, Poland. It has been a marvelous experience thus far, including time spent in the classroom with bright students, as well as evenings spent dining with wonderful new and…
Who could believe a compilation of disparate texts adds up to the pinpointing of a single day in the 21st century when the maker of heaven and earth is going to throw a major temper tantrum?
Am I, someone hostile to large-scale corporate enterprises, really permitted to complain about a localist glitch in Comcast’s global footprint?
“[I]n February, Thomas Hoenig, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, warned against the violent possibilities of a farmland bubble, telling the Senate Agriculture Committee that ‘distortions in financial markets’ will catch the U.S. by surprise again.…
Mark you calendars! The Academy of Philosophy and Letters will hold its annual conference in Baltimore, MD from June 10-12. Check out the program and register here.This is sure to be a great event. Several FPR writers will be participating…
Read through this announcement by FPR contributor Stephen Heiner:
Dear Fellow Front Porchers
I wanted to invite you to an event which will be occurring in a couple months’ time in Rockford, Illinois. It’s the Rockford Institute’s 14th Annual Summer…
What of those who have never once thought it their duty to amuse their readers?
[Cross-posted to In Medias Res]
Wichita, KS…
Dahlia Lithwick and Ezra Klein are a couple of my favorite pundits in the whole blogosphere. Lithwick is snarky, and Klein is wonky, but they’re both smart, opinionated, insightful, and informed. They’re also
Back in May, 2005 – on May 4, to be precise – my wife and I were invited to the 59th annual Boat Race Dinner of the Washington Oxford and Cambridge Club. The principal speaker was Sir Martin Rees (now…
Even in a democratic age, where social classes are fluid and poorly demarcated, the gentleman is characterized by these five attributes.
At ISI’s First Principles site, Matthew Spalding and I consider how best to defang Leviathan.…
[Cross-posted to In Medias Res]
I’d like to call upon the collective wisdom of the Front Porch Republic, to help me with a new class I’ll be teaching in the fall. This one is an attempt to pull together several…
Devon, PA.… Two years ago this week, President Obama delivered the commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame. Great numbers of students, faculty, alumni, and American Catholics protested the speech in the weeks preceding it, and some Notre
