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The Problem of Undertheorized Agrarianism in Most Actually Argued Localism

April 25, 2013

[Cross-posted to In Medias Res]
That’s a terrible title for this post, I know. But hopefully it’ll make sense, if you actually make it to the end.
First of all, if any reader of this blog has missed out on…

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Capital Offense

April 14, 2013

Washington, DC…
I’ve been spending my semester in exile in our nation’s capital. My apartment is in Arlington, on a ridge overlooking the city. From that spot I have a clear view of the Pentagon, the Capitol dome, the Washington

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Men of the World, Pick Up Your Brooms

March 15, 2013

Alexandra Bradner, a philosophy professor at the University of Kentucky, has a piece at The Atlantic on women’s “second shifts.” Noting that women, mothers in particular, are both “important” and “exploited,” she asks why exactly men are so dense when it…

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Barack Obama: Socialist?

January 21, 2013

 
 
Washington DC…
When President Obama took office in 2009, many friends of capitalism were concerned that he would socialize our economy. Yet corporate profits have hit record heights during his presidency. For example, one report argues that the

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Scurrying toward Philly?

January 10, 2013

I have been engaged in a minor dust-up with my good friend Conor Dugan over reports that Notre Dame’s Brian Kelly has been entertaining talks with the Philadelphia Eagles concerning their head coaching vacancy. It should come as a surprise…

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The New Domesticity

December 13, 2012

This is a highly confused article on the turn, particularly among women, to forms of “new domesticity.”  Its author, Emily Matchar, appears eager to deny that there is anything good to being “conservative,” yet comes close to admiring, if admitting cognitive…

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Is America Too Big?

December 12, 2012

Is the United States dysfunctionally large, and thus destined to go the way of the giant radioactive ants once seen in old sci-fi movies?  That’s the question raised by this video discussion between Kirkpatrick Sale and Donald Livingston.…

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Standing Athwart History Crying, “Me Too!”

November 9, 2012

The GOP strategists once again react to getting clobbered by calling for an embrace of their (alleged) opponents’ policies.  After all, if only Romney could’ve distanced himself from pro-life fanatics and gun nuts he’d still be basking in the warm…

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Finger Foods

October 22, 2012

Set in the heart of the Burned-Over District, the Finger Lakes region of New York is among the culturally, historically, and culinarily richest parts of the country. Now it has a cookbook worthy of its ghosts and grapes: Finger Lakes…

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George McGovern, RIP

October 21, 2012

My 2006 profile/interview of the patriot from Mitchell, South Dakota: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/come-home-america-2/.…

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Whither the Liberal Arts College? Or, Why Bloom’s Critique Doesn’t Matter

technologyliberalarts October 17, 2012

One sees signs of dètente in the academic wars that were highlighted by Allan Bloom’s Closing of the American Mind. At a more reflective level this can be seen in books such as Stanley Fish’s Save the World on Your…

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The Banks we Deserve, the Economy we can Sustain

September 29, 2012

If you didn’t catch this panel put on by Marketplace and BBC, it’s pretty exciting.
It takes the expert panel only about 10 minutes (2:00 to 12:40) to get to crucial points FPR folks have been making for years: We…

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McCarthy on conservatism and the post-Boomer generations

August 30, 2012

Must-read stuff this morning from Dan McCarthy at the The American Conservative.
Dan argues that the Gen X and the Millennial generations are not necessarily more liberal than their Boomer parents, but their conservatism has a much different inflection:
Right-wing…

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Gird Your Loins: It’s an Election

Obama-the-warrior August 21, 2012

Holland, MI…
On Inauguration Day 2009 various organizations at my college held a celebration to mark the inauguration of America’s first African-American president. Large TV screens were set up around the room, and a panel convened to discuss the significance

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“Like Most Satirists I am a Reactionary”

August 1, 2012

Native son and caustically loving biographer of our country Gore Vidal  (http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-last-republican) has died. Don’t mourn; read: Burr, Lincoln, Screening History, Homage to Daniel Shays, United States, The Last Empire….…

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Scotch on the Bruce

balvenie-caribbean-cask July 31, 2012

Owen Sound, ONT…
The Bruce Peninsula extends like a claw off Southern Ontario’s main land mass into the Great Lakes basin. Forming a long arc with Manitoulin Island, the Bruce separates Lake Huron from Georgian Bay, a body of water

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