So say the signers (including four Front Porch-sitters) of this letter (www.comehomeamerica.us) from the nascent antiwar group Come Home, America. The permanent warfare state ill serves Americans; shall we give the republic another try?…
Bill Kauffman
If you be in or around Washingtron on Sunday, June 19, join Dan McCarthy, Ralph Nader, Kelley Vlahos, Kevin Zeese, and Marc Steiner to discuss how patriots of left, right, center, and place might cooperate in dismantling the profoundly un-…
Wherein we go hopping down Bunny’s trail: www.amconmag.com/blog/wilsons-picket/…
At ISI’s First Principles site, Matthew Spalding and I consider how best to defang Leviathan.…
Alan Pell Crawford on trying to find a baseball game amidst the FUNN in Richmond. Things are better in Batavia, though my friend Tom Williams and I annually threaten to sponsor “Pastoral Night,” during which amplified sound is banned, and…
With avidity and pleasure I’ve been reading American Georgics: Writings on Farming, Culture, and the Land, a collection of excerpts in the American agrarian tradition edited by Edwin C. Hagenstein, Sara M. Gregg, and Brian Donahue, and published this week…
The South, repatriated ex-slave Ned Douglass lectured his Louisiana neighbors in Ernest J. Gaines’s novel The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, is “yours because your people’s bones lays in it; it’s yours because their sweat and their blood done drenched…
Reason magazine’s Jesse Walker notes an outbreak of nullification, dairy-style, in Maine: http://reason.com/blog/2011/03/22/food-nullification…
These days I care more about the results of local sporting events than I do national or out-of-state elections, but I was pleased that Golden Staters put Jerry Brown back in the governor’s chair.
Brown’s austere unhipness has always appealed…
JL Strickland, former Alabama mill worker and self-proclaimed “Linthead Emeritus,” on a boy and a town: two more casualties of the deeply anti-American American Empire: www.ComeHomeAmerica.us.…
Welcome, March! William Cullen Bryant saw through your bluster:
For thou, to northern lands again,
The glad and glorious sun dost bring,
And thou hast joined the gentle train
And wear’st the gentle name of Spring.
Ring in the month…
My lunch with Bill Clune is served at the American Conservative: http://www.amconmag.com/blog/meet-the-marlboro-man/.…
Batavia’s Tom Gahr on bummin’ with his Dad.…
The last pro-life Democrat on a national ticket has died. R. Sargent Shriver, 1972 running mate of the best Democratic nominee since Al Smith, was an admirer of Catholic Worker founder and saint-to-be Dorothy Day and an active member in…
But then Dylan is 69, and old enough to remember when the people of his place looked askance at empire. There were giants in the earth in those days.
My review of Leigh Eric Schmidt’s Heaven’s Bride appeared in this weekend’s Wall Street Journal.
