Results for “murdock”

Braver Angels and Civil Conversation across Partisan Divides

...to bring Ken Burns’ documentaries to your local PBS station. These angels are not funding films but facilitating cross-silo contact at a time when such is increasingly rare. Guest…
John Murdock
October 5, 2020

Katharine Hayhoe Talks Climate Change

...gives her opinion on the East Anglia email disclosure and its impact on climate scientists. A shorter written version of the podcast is available on the Plough website. Host: John…

Matt Stewart on Wallace Stegner

Matthew Stewart, author of The Most Beautiful Place on Earth:  Wallace Stegner in California, sits down (literally) with host John Murdock to discuss Stegner’s complicated relationship with the American…

Mark Mitchell on Plutocratic Socialism 

Mark Mitchell, author of Plutocratic Socialism:  The Future of Private Property and the Fate of the Middle Class and President of Front Porch Republic, joins the podcast.  Mitchell and…

Humane Politics

Adam Smith, a philosopher at the University of Dubuque, counterattacks the disenchanted War on Suffering.  FPR President Mark Mitchell goes biblical to bring down a heightened politics of insanity. …

Happy St. Isidore’s Day

...some grass-fed beef and home grown veggies on the grill, it’s time to celebrate St. Isi’s Day! John Murdock is currently working on a book about Christian creation stewardship.…
John Murdock
May 15, 2014

Life in the Kolache Belt: Reflections from the Intersection of Food, Faith, Farming, and Fracking

...that won’t be busted by any boom. John Murdock has written from a century old family farmhouse during the past year after a decade plus of big city lawyering…
John Murdock
September 23, 2014

Phenomenal Ben Carson and the Consequential Richard Weaver

...priorities. And I’ve got just the thing for his reading list. John Murdock worked in our nation’s capital for over a decade as an attorney and now writes from…
John Murdock
December 26, 2014

Opening Night, Way off Broadway: Greater Tuna in Shiner, Texas

...showbiz types may still have a place in their hearts to appreciate that. John Murdock writes from a family farmhouse in his native Texas and exists online at johnmurdock.org.…
John Murdock
December 12, 2014

Orwell and Huxley, Together Again: ‘The Interview’ and our Culture of Distraction

...too close to being in the bag. John Murdock was as an attorney in Washington, D.C. for over a decade and now writes from a farmhouse in Texas. Assuming…
John Murdock
January 23, 2015

Huckabee’s Shifting Shades of Green

...thing.” John Murdock grew up not far from Texarkana where the Pastor Huckabee ministered for several years. After a decade in the bubble of D.C., he now writes from…
John Murdock
February 17, 2015

The Academy Awards as a Religious Experience

...that, for all of its crassness, it is still inhabited by human beings with innate religious impulses that can be touched by the power of beauty and sacrifice. John…
John Murdock
February 26, 2015

Remembering a Good Oak

...the great oaks of tomorrow. John Murdock writes from a century old farmhouse built by his great-grandparents and enjoys visiting the ancient live oak a few yards away that…
John Murdock
May 14, 2015

The Cardinal and the Capitalist

...different sort of logic. John Murdock rang in the millennium at St. Peter’s in Rome, spent a decade plus as an attorney in D.C. and now writes from his…
John Murdock
June 5, 2015

The Incredible Industrial Egg

...for it. You never know what you’ll get until you crack them open, but some eggs are just rotten. John Murdock writes from Texas and has pastured eggs in…
John Murdock
June 25, 2015

Saving Life on Mars, and in Appalachia

...it all can instead extend the hand of fellowship to our neighbors with whom we are unknowingly connected each time we flip on the light switch. John Murdock is…
John Murdock
October 22, 2015

Saving Trees Across The Ocean

...money is one bottom line principle that we on this side of the Pacific would be wise to bring back and heed. John Murdock is an attorney who writes…
John Murdock
November 3, 2015

The Dryers are Coming! The Dryers are Coming!

...a land that is still not ashamed to show you its laundry as it dries in the sun. John Murdock is a professor at the Handong International Law School,…
John Murdock
July 9, 2017

John de Graaf, Affluenza, and Stewart Udall

...Freida the Goose” Resources John Murdock at Front Porch Republic John de Graaf at Front Porch Republic Films of John de Graaf Vachel Lindsay Gracy Olmstead’s Uprooted (reviewed here…

David Cayley on Illich and Institutions

...its applications to current tests like the pandemic. Guest Host: Michael Sauter Highlights 0:30 Murdock asks, “Storied thinker or Tolstoy story?” 2:15 David Cayley, a man of Ideas 3:00…

Will Hoyt‘s Ohio River Journey to the Middle Ages

Host:  John Murdock Guest:  Will Hoyt Will Hoyt, author of The Seven Ranges, discusses his journey along the Ohio River into the physical, historical and philosophical interior of the…

Chuck Marohn on the Human Errors of Traffic Engineering

...advocates for cities and towns where slower moving cars can get us where we want to go faster. Host: John Murdock Guest: Charles “Chuck” Marohn Highlights  1:15      A…

Bill Kauffman in Conversation

Bill Kauffman, author of multiple books including Poetry Night at the Ballpark and long the closing speaker at FPR conferences, talks about the origins of Front Porch Republic and…
John Murdock
September 24, 2023

The Yankee Southern Agrarian

...A longer response from me is coming soon. Best, John Murdock John Murdock My general rule regarding the “comments” section is to leave it to the commenters, and the…