In “The Hollow Men,” T.S. Eliot famously predicts that Doom will come subtly, rather than dramatically: “This is the way the world ends[,] This is the way the world ends[,] This is the way the world ends[,] Not with a…
August 2011
A proper remembering requires more than telling the facts or chronicling the plunder, rape, murder in Nanking; it requires that one explain the event.
Peter has already mentioned the short-course being offered on Confederational Political Thought. Porchers and fellow-travelers might also be interested in checking out the morning course of “Republicanism and Virtue,” also featuring FPR stalwarts Peter Haworth, Jeremy Beer, Michael Federici, and…
Our hero, Harry, demonstrates an attitude towards death that very few of us actually hold.
Many Porch readers will enjoy the brief symposium on Theology and Natural Law that is now posted on ANAMNESIS, A Journal for the Study of Tradition, Place, and ‘Things Divine.’ The discussion features two varying views about the role of…
The vacation, far from being a treatment for a serious illness, is instead a symptom of it.
Many readers will be interested in a short course and working group being conducted at the APSA Conference in Seattle (September 1-4) . These forums will address themes in Confederational Thought and their relation to American History. Presenters include Gregory Butler, Jeff…
While I do not regard myself as a “tea-partier” (indeed, I’m not even sure I know what one is), my own sense is that the House Republicans have operated throughout the “debt-ceiling” debate off two premises. The first is that…
The stones strapped to the back of the city dweller, along with the thick tension of the silence of the state, explains why most city conversations fall on the opposite side of friendly.
Overall, the key corrolations are clear: functional families are strong and large; strong and large families are function-rich.
