Washington, Ct. …Classics are called such for a reason. They endure. Quite by accident frequently, for as any condemned intellectual knows, the most marketable idea prevails within the lifetime of the average intellectual, regardless of merit. Marketability does not always
Washington, Ct.… The recent contretemps between the blessedly described “liberal conservatives” at the First Things web site and our own clutch of barking mongrels here at the homespun Porch revealed that the First Things folks might consider the important arena
I’ve just finished Andrea Wulf’s beguiling book entitled “ Founding Gardeners, The Revolutionary Generation, Nature and the Shaping of the American Nation”. Published this year by Knopf, it delves into already well-known territory but does so in a manner highly…
We lived now in a wrecked forest, but this is only the beginning.
With three children raised and fledged, we managed to avoid their seductive pox and the kids are actually grateful for it. All three of them are engaged in creative professions. Pushing buttons makes for better button pushers but an imagination comes from a combination of independent thinking and a life lived as much outside as inside.
They say that funerals are for the living, which of course they are. The deceased, now lifeless, causes us to reflect upon their life as well as our own which remains for the moment, steadfastly ticking. This relentless winter is…
Fortunately America still gives birth to her Framers and they come with every generation.
Long live the King, somewhere damned else.
Peace is a Jinn. It is that thing we are always in search of, but never enough to forget our accumulated envious resentments of those who are not like us.
The Ninth Anniversary of 9/11/01; Three Squared Equals Zero in the New American Math.
Americans do not need a Messiah because this nation is not Heaven on Earth.
Our military is off defending Afghanistan and Iraq from themselves while our Financial Titans are rescued to live another day of utterly neglecting the welfare of the Republic.
This leak at the bottom of the sea is a mirror held up to our uncomprehending selves.
The American Bolsheviks, on the other hand, are the mad-as-hell Tea Party with their sexpot Lenin Sarah Palin, fresh from cash-cow book tour and on a First Class Junket into Everyday Celebrity.
It is no wonder that we fallen mortals would drive a heavy spike through the opened hands of Christ, bloodily impaling him atop the rocky pate of Golgotha.
I’ll take the old gal with a few well-earned wrinkles that fit soft and snug like a favorite glove. It’s the land, stupid, and boy is she a thing of stunning beauty.
Devon, PA.… Outside of a few magazines and other fora on the conservative and collectivist fringe, one seldom hears the opinion that the banking crisis of 2008 was brought about chiefly, not to say exclusively, by the kinds of
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,…
FPR readers will be interested in two new essays in ANAMNESIS. The first, by Professor Jay Langdale, is a fascinating examination of Richard Weaver’s analysis of pathologies related to modern war:…
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…
Many FPR readers will enjoy “Derrida’s Hope and Despair for Globalization” in ANAMNESIS.…
Stephen Marche has written an interesting piece in the May Atlantic on how facebook is making… us lonely. There is a good deal to comment on here, and I’m not particularly inclined to take yet another shot at Facebook, for while
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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