Time to toss the children into their beds and recline with a little John Muir and a finger or two of Old Cordwood
August 2011
During my brief foray into public education, I taught a group of seventh-graders a typical lesson from a standard middle school literature textbook: we read a chapter from Ramsey Ullman’s Banner in the Sky and traced its rising action, climax,…
The federal courts’ extraordinarily broad interpretation of the Constitution’s interstate commerce clause has long posed a problem for localists — which is to say, for community self-governance. That has never been more true than in the past two decades, when…
From today’s Wall Street Journal, my review of the Library of America’s Ambrose Bierce omnibus:…
Let’s call the whole world Christ’s.
Ryan Lizza’s piece on Michele Bachmann prompted an avalanche of posts from bloggers and columnists who took issue with effort to link the Congresswoman from Minnesota to the political theology of Dominionism. The genealogy…
You won’t want to miss this. Register here.
Session 1: Mobility and the Crisis of Community
Patrick Deneen: The Liberal Self and Mobility
Allan Carlson: Why the Modern Family Keeps Moving
Christine Rosen: Technology and Mobility
Session 2: Fostering Vital …
Please end this piece before it gets worse.
Could the United States radically change via another constitutional convention, experience a new civil war, split into multiple confederacies, and/or engage in a massive foreign war in order to preserve its cohesion?[i] According to conventional thought, such possibilities are improbable.…
As promised, here are the dates and times for our working group meetings on Confederational American Political Thought at the APSA Conference in Seattle (September 1-4):
Meeting #1: Thursday, September 1; 12:15-1:15pm; Grand Hyatt Seattle, Sherman Room.
Meeting #2: Saturday, September 3; 12:15-1:15pm; Grand Hyatt…
From Pope Benedict XVI’s Address to Young University Professors:
“Where will young people encounter those reference points in a society which is increasingly confused and unstable? At times one has the idea that the mission of a university professor nowadays…
If you must lie, measure it against your own self-interest and make sure it is legal, and if at all possible try not to do it under oath.
McDowell County in North Carolina suffered an unemployment rate of 14.8% in 2009 (over 4% higher than the national rate). At a loss with what to do with the increasing number of jobless citizens, and already operating within a strained…
Devon, PA…. For months now, I have been sitting on an incomplete draft of a series of essays on “Localism and the Universal Church,” wherein I seek to show that the commitment of myself and many Catholics to the
Say what you will about Ron Paul, Fox News’ failure to say anything about the candidate is curious and gives Jon Stewart a big target.
The Daily Show – Indecision 2012 – Corn Polled Edition – Ron Paul & the …
Robert T. Miller and I discuss two opposed views of Catholic Social Teaching as it relates to economics in this month’s issue of Dappled Things. Robert defends that “… for people like us in a society like ours, capitalism is…
“Good Morning America” has named Sleeping Bear Dunes, along the Lake Michigan shore, its “most beautiful place” in America. I can think of at least two other Porchers who could sign on to this sentiment, and I have to confess…
