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New ANAMNESIS Symposium: “Views on Hawthorne, Simms, History, and Progress.”

April 16, 2012

Many FPR readers will enjoy the new symposium, “Views on Hawthorne, Simms, History, and Progress,” in ANAMNESIS, A Journal for the Study of Tradition, Place, and ‘Things Divine.’…

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Happy Birthday To Us, and Long May We Honor Our Greatest Satirist

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The Reverend Dr. Swift put his Front Porch finger on several of our worst maladies.

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Traditionalist Critique of Marx and An Analysis of Hawthorne in ANAMNESIS

March 6, 2012

FPR readers will be interested in both (1) K.R. Bolton’s traditionalist Conservative critique of Marx and Ideological-Capitalism and (2) Lee Trepanier’s examination of the use of history in Hawthorne.…

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What’s Wrong With Iowa? (A Transplanted Professor Knows)

iowa2 February 7, 2012

If you think you may legitimately enjoy the physical benefits of a place while dwelling in the airy regions of judgment above it, you’d better think again.

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Agrarian Hypocrisy and the Evils of Distributism

New_American_Gothic January 6, 2012

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…

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O Clemens, O Pia

Interstate January 3, 2012

The answers we give may prove to be fatal rather than whimsical.

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Electing Beaver: The Politics of Place in the Public Square

Beaver December 15, 2011

“The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what he saw in a plain way …”
John Ruskin…
I do not know William “Beaver” Watkins, supervisor of a bucolic township where

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After All, It Almost Rhymes With Bikini

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And then, at last, as if from an ancient laver of regeneration, I baptize the evening properly.

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The Bar Jester Gets Ecumenical …

holding-hands November 23, 2011

I think about giving a standing ovation—not for the singing but for the cessation thereof.

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Seize the Bacon

BWeave12 November 9, 2011

You’ve heard of pig-in-a-blanket? This is pig-in-a-pig-blanket.

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On the Conversion of Grass and Sunlight; or, Round Steak in a World Gone Mad

cow November 1, 2011

An animal with four stomachs is on its way to mine.

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There’s No Place Like Home

home October 7, 2011

Absent is the self-examination of the person in the mirror and how we exchange with loved ones around the dinner table. Forgotten is how to live a life more thoughtfully, with reverence and veneration to community and creator.

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Michael Oakeshott and School as “A Place Apart”

Clipart_Work_Together_Idea September 27, 2011

But are we or should we ever be emancipated from “the limitations of local circumstance”?

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The Season of Nature’s Boon

RoundtreeCemetery September 20, 2011

Everything now portends the close of something desperately cherished.

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Cool as a Cucumber–In This Heat

Cucumber on vine July 20, 2011

Soon you’ll all be cool as cucumbers–and soon enough as cold as the grave.

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Sitting Inside a Mountain

st. raymond's June 20, 2011

Breaking free from the voices, soundtrack, machinery, and plastic of consumption and advertising gives an individual the opportunity to consider questions and ideas that the world outside St. Raymond’s continually beats into the ground.

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