There’s an honest-to-god crunchy-con candidate in the northern Wisconsin woods.
Jeremy Beer
The most recent issue of The American Conservative will be of interest to folks on the Porch.
The explosive growth in wilderness-designated land is one of the few modern desert Southwest trends of which I heartily approve. In 1975, Arizona had several hundred thousand acres of designated wilderness; now there are something like 4.8 million acres in 92 units. Fedeally managed or not, I approve. And I cite Edward Abbey as my authority.
Noah Millman says blame the money, and he’s right.
Fr. Michael Orsi reviews Kauffman’s Luther Martin, and finds wisdom therein.
George A. Panichas, literary critic and longtime editor of Modern Age, has died at the age of 79.
According to David Rieff, FPR occupies an honorable space on the right side of the American commentariat spectrum, in that many of our writers (1) are willing to admit the reality of American decline, and (2) do not reflexively blame…
A friend sent me the other day two issues of a little journal called The Publican of Philadelphia. Since I am forever worried that the Porch’s ongoing what-to-do conversation gravitates a bit too inexorably toward strictly political/economic discussions, I’d like…
The narrative that the American Right tells about itself springs from the careful, groundbreaking historical work of George H. Nash. Unfortunately, as Dan McCarthy points out in a review of Nash’s Reappraising the Right, it’s a narrative that fits the…
Washington Park, Arizona…. It used to take seven hours to get here by car, even though the journey was only some 90 miles from Phoenix. R. J. and the family would typically get here sometime after 11:00 on
For those of you in the vicinity of T. S. Eliot’s home town, FPR editor-at-large Allan Carlson will be speaking at Washington University in St. Louis on Thursday, October 15. The lecture is free.
Here are the details:
Date: Thursday,…
That’s the point made darn well by Stefan McDaniel as part of his response to globalization defenders (the link will take you back to the whole debate). A while back, McDaniel also wrote a perceptive brief review of our Kauffman’s…
A couple of years ago, I wrote a piece on Philip Rieff for the American Conservative. One of the themes of Rieff’s work on which I focused was his concept of anti-culture—the idea that in the twentieth-century West there had…
made once again by Jesse Walker, in re the prez and the kids. He says here in about 400 words just about everything that needs to be and should be said about the “bipartisan cult of the presidency.”…
Thanks to FPR reader and my fellow Hoosier Brandon Seitz for pointing us to The Daily Yonder, a webzine dedicated to writing about and analyzing what’s going on in rural America. I’ve only begun to poke around, but it certainly…
DENVER, COLORADO…. It seems like only yesterday that the New Urbanism was really new. But this weekend, with its annual meeting here in Denver, the Congress for the New Urbanism turned seventeen. Its founding texts are almost as
