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…
The Euro is in trouble, and the news just keeps getting worse. There is now open talk of a post-Euro Europe, and such a turn would be a serious strike against any robust European Union. After an all-night session last…
At long last The Humane Vision of Wendell Berry is available. This volume, published by ISI Books and co-edited by Nathan Schlueter and yours truly, includes sixteen original essays on various facets of Berry’s work as well as an open…
Video of the September 24, 2011 conference at Mount St. Mary’s University is now up on You Tube. Search for “human scale conference” or click here.
Thanks to the tech folks at Mount St. Mary’s for making this happen.…
If you are planning to run for president, here’s a word of advice: you must assert regularly and with great conviction your belief in American Exceptionalism. This seems especially true if you are vying for the Republican nomination. The particular…
The American Conservative has published a symposium commemorating the 50th anniversary of the publication of Jane Jacobs’s book The Death and Life of the Great American Cities. The symposium features a variety of individuals reflecting on the significance of this…
A neighborhood in Ithaca, NY is doing something special. It’s called Porchfest. Here’s a taste, but be sure to go to the story and scroll down to the video.
Porchfest began in 2007 when Fall Creekers Lesley Greene and Gretchen…
Every fall I teach a course called “Democracy.” One of the books we invariably read is On Power: The Natural History of its Growth by the French philosopher Bertrand de Jouvenel. Jouvenel wrote the book as WWII was raging, and…
Here’s a taste:
Yesterday I rented a house in the historic district of St. Francisville, my hometown. I was on the phone with Mr. Walter, the owner, settling the terms. He was incredibly gracious, and I was tickled to learn…
We are pleased to announce that John Schwenkler has joined our merry band and has agreed to edit an on-going series titled “The View From Your Front Porch.” The first entry is the view from his own porch. Here’s how…
For those of you who were not able to be in Emmitsburg on Saturday, you missed a wonderful day. The rain stopped sometime in the night and the early morning sun burned away the low clouds. Well before 9am, people…
I had previously thought that Ground Hog Day was strictly a holiday for the residents of the virtuous commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Turns out that the day is celebrated far and wide by localists of all kinds, even Canadians. But as…
Devon, PA.… The Catholic magazine of arts and letters, Dappled Things, is no stranger to the writers of FPR, having published a debate on the free market between John Médaille and Robert T. Miller, last spring. The most recent issue
The Atlantic offers characteristics of conservatives. How does the Porch fit in?
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…
My friend Paul Buhle, the great historian of the American left, has edited, with his wife Mari Jo Buhle, It Started in Wisconsin: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Labor Protest (http://www.versobooks.com/books/1076-it-started-in-wisconsin), just out from Verso. The best…
CALL FOR PAPERS: CICERONIAN SOCIETY
2012 ANNUAL MEETING AT UVA…
The Ciceronian Society will be holding its annual meeting at the University of Virginia, March 29-31, 2012. This will be an academic conference in which panelists can present on a
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