See Rod Dreher’s interview of Congressman Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE), one of the few Congressmen who would feel right at home on the porch. Here’s a snippet, but read it all.
That’s why I think an entrepreneurial model rooted in localism,…
Mark T. Mitchell
My review of Robert Nisbet’s classic The Quest for Community was just published at the On-Line Library of Law and Liberty, whose stated purpose is “to bring together high-caliber conservative and classical liberal content on a range of legal, political…
Published recently in The American Conservative. The book contains essays by such writers as Allan Carlson, Patrick Deneen, Jason Peters, Caleb Stegall, Rod Dreher, and D. G. Hart. Readers of FPR will find much to appreciate. Of course, this might…
On Sunday, Wendell Berry spoke at The National Cathedral. You can see that event here.
On Monday, he delivered the Jefferson Lecture for the National Endowment for the Humanities. The title: “It all Turns on Affection.” You can read that…
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In the spring of 2011, articles began popping up about a couple in Toronto who were refusing to publicly reveal the gender of their baby. They named the child “Storm” and committed themselves to raising Storm without the oppressive expectations…
For those in the D.C. area, I will be speaking at the National Cathedral on Sunday morning at 10:10. The topic is “The State of Political Geography: Where Do We Live?” It’s a beautiful venue, and it would be great…
If you were intrigued by the song about Edward Abbey posted by Bill Kauffman, this three part interview with Abbey might be of interest. There is plenty of food for thought and enough with which to disagree. If you don’t know…
Do you love America? If so, how much? Do you wear an American flag on your lapel (and look askance on those who don’t)? Do you drive only American cars? Do you prefer home-style fries to French fries because, well,…
This is a powerful piece describing the consequences of some fertility techniques that involve selective reduction of embryos.
I will never fully recover from what I’ve seen, and done. For I have failed, intentionally and knowingly, in the first duty…
The New York Times recently ran a précis of a book by Eric Klinenberg, a professor of sociology at New York University and the author of Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone. According to Klinenberg,…
Kearneysville, WV.… As this election cycle grinds on, and as Washington prepares for CPAC’s 2012 event, each Republican candidate continues to claim that he best represents the conservative ideal. In this on-going contest over a word, the various contenders have
Today in New York City the oral arguments will be heard. You can read more here and here.
On January 31, family farmers will take part in the first phase of a court case filed to protect farmers from genetic…
One thing that has amused me in these first three years of FPR’s existence is the tendency of some readers to single out one or two articles and lament that FPR was once a promising venture but has now taken…
Here is an article describing how Kansas is leading the way toward a less centralized future.
The “revolution in a cornfield” that is happening today in Gov. Sam Brownback’s Kansas is potentially as important as what happened here in 1776.…
In this essay, former Wall Street Investment Banker, Michael Thomas, expresses his frustration and disillusion with our current economic system. His credibility comes from three decades on Wall Street. In 1961 he landed a job with Lehman Brothers
to begin…
We are at a turning point, according to McKibben. The era of the big and few is being replaced by a new era of the small and the many. Take but one example:
Last year the USDA reported that the…
