Results for “pomocon”
FPR v. PoMoCon, Part Deux
...some rather profound differences on the ground. For PoMoCons of Lawlerian variety, this is a source of optimism – our human condition of alienation and misery will not be…
What’s Modernity Marx Got to Do With It? (FPR vs. PoMoCon, Part Drei)
...would enable and extent–the doing of things differently with one’s occupations and talents and property and education and land and position in life. It perhaps reveals something important that…
Studies Show the PoMoCons are Wrong
...see my point. Ryan Davidson Suggestion: PoMoCons and Porchers are really two sides of the same coin. Both argue that you can have your modernization while keeping your traditional…
You might be a pomocon if you watch Baywatch reruns because of the “virtuous” lifeguards.
Casey Khan "Back in 2005 I had just moved to Washington, DC." That should explain at least 75% of the pomocon phenomenon. Russell Arben Fox I assume you're referring…
An Actually Interesting Debate
...have been severed (we have now learned that sappers from the FPR Special Forces penetrated deep into PoMoCon territory and unpluggedddd their phone line, leaving the PoMoCons confused and…
Bar Jester Chronicles 15: In Praise of Smartassery
...bowtied PoMoCon who’s never had his prissy right-wing hands in worm castings than swill beer with a man of infinite jest who has? I think not! (Find me a…
Deneen Spring Tour Dates
...p.m. Note that I’ll be sharing the stage with the world’s leading PoMoCon, Peter Lawler, as well as Brad Watson of St. Vincent College. RSVPs are requested. Click here…
The Alternative Tradition in America
...that ricocheted deep within the recesses of whatever brain matter remains. This is the stuff that alters thinking, changes minds, and converts the sinner. Surely the beloved Lawler and…
Can’t Buy Me Love
...I meant to also say that while the original Pomocon/FPR debate seemed to immediately implode under the feathery weight of labels, this one touched off by R.R. Reno seems…
Walkers of the World, Unite!
I’ve been accused (at least by association) by so many pomocon partisans of being pro-Obama, I’m almost starting to believe it myself. So here’s great news. Obama’s much-publicized concern…
Deneen, Pangle, Walzer
...who came in at #12, tied in votes with Michael Walzer and Thomas Pangle. The pomocon’s Peter Lawler had half as many votes as Deneen, but I’m not sure…
Capitalism as an Unnatural System
...at PoMoCon: http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/2009/06/21/love-the-sweet-divine- Also, my personal email is: robertcheeks@core.com drop me a line. John Médaille I always find these charges amusing, precisely to the degree that they are unsupported…
Pomo’s vs. Fropo’s Revisited
...that there is no necessary reason to assume any overlap between them: PomoCon is a blog, and FT is a website that gave that blog a home for purposes…
How Marx Explains the Pomo-Con/Front-Porch Divide, In Four Easy Steps
...is how they frame the progressive presumptions of modernity. Pomo-Cons supposedly see it, within certain limits, as basically positive, because the possibility of conserving and living in accordance with…
C’mon Do the Pomocomotion With Me
...myself a Lawlerian, I do agree with you that at times the heavily theoretical manner of arguing that he and others at Pomocon do, has real limitations in a…
A Patched Fool
...5. If you weren't following the whole PoMoCon debate of the past week, the uke reference would have seemed obscure to you, so I can give a pass on…
Race, Localism, and the Problem of Over-Articulation: A Further Response to First Things
...into political and social movements." Wise words to us all. If the protracted debate with the First Things/Pomocon folks has head positive results, your post here exemplifies it. Clare…
Turn On, Tune In, Watch TV
...note, I can now run nearly ten yards; while on the downside I appear to be in my second trimester since ALL food not nailed down, is to be…
“Servile World: How ‘The Big Business Government,’ ‘The Loathsome Thing Called Social Service,’ and Other Distrubutist Nightmares All Came True
...the bloody British bastards, now didn't we? In the end, it's still God's world and that world, my friend, is predicated on a metaphysical freedom (soon to be blogged…
Philip Bess’s Pizza
...whose insights about traditional urbansm I am happy to share with whoever will listen. I have been following with interest the Front Porch / PoMoCon exchanges throughout the summer,…
Would Natty Bumpo Have a Crisis on his Hands if his Health Insurance Didn’t Cover Catasrophic Scalp Injury?
...in this matter when common sense tells us they are wrong and, in this instance, the people are right? This is for me a fascinating phenomenon and one that…
Turn the Other Cheeks
...Now, I must return to PoMoCon where I am busy trying to save souls and right wrongs! Adam Parsons I'm going to bite here, if not to find Dreher,…
Avatar: Reviewing the Reviewers
Bob Cheeks This movie may go a long way in addressing the question, or at least one of the questions, that sets PoMoCon and FRPer apart, that is How…
New World Order
...to start walking it back... Carl Scott I'm predictably agreed with Peter Lawler over at PoMoCon that the essay is over-the-top. I find the little side-note on Rawls, peak…