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TAC New Urbanism Panel in Dallas This Friday
The Congress for a New Urbanism is meeting in Dallas this weekend, and TAC's New Urbs will be there, hosting what looks to be an awesome panel tomorrow afternoon: Friday…
Religious Liberty Isn’t for Conservatives
My latest post over at The Mitrailleuse: If orthodox Christians, particularly Catholics, wonder why religious liberty no longer seems to apply to them, a large part of the answer is that…
Daddy, Where Do Seeds Come From?
Perhaps as our teachers sometimes tell us, there is no such thing as a bad question. That doesn’t mean that some questions aren’t better than others. It was some years…
Conversations with Bronze Age Warlords
Pop quiz: What ancient Greek legend begins with the kidnapping of Helen of Troy, and ends with Greeks sneaking into Troy inside a hollow wooden horse? If you said “The…
Localist Linkfest
If Rush Limbaugh hates it, it's probably a good idea: When Dan Price said last week that he would cut his own pay and profits to make it possible to…
Thoreau’s Walden: Embracing a Restorative Experience of Nature
Windswept and partially covered in snow, winter debris still clinging to its banks, Walden Pond offered no glamorous window into the preeminent beauty of nature when I visited in early…
Localist Linkfest
Hillary Clinton's Chipotle order: Hillary Clinton, fighter of children A bizarre and perverse paragraph in the New York Times: Traveling this fascinating and contradictory land today, one must acknowledge a…
Once Again, the Opponents of Unsupervised Children are Revealed
The story is pretty much the same as before: you have children that are placed in a situation which many people would consider less than ideal, a situation which--as it…
Localist Linkfest
Police are investigating a sighting of an alligator in the Monongahela River Archaeologists defy ISIS by finding new artifacts in Iraq Earth Island Journal interviews Wendell Berry: I've already explained…
The Socialist Party and the Old Right
A slightly edited version of this talk was delivered at a forum at the National Press Club on April 9, 2015, entitled "American Socialism Reconsidered," on the occasion of Jack Ross's…
Our Lawns, Our Eden
Last spring I posted a piece on dandelions, after I had been struck by the preponderance of death-dealing chemicals in the ‘lawn and garden' section at the local big box store.…
The Parish and the Papacy
This is the fourth of a five-part series of essays on "Localism and the Universal Church." You may find the previous installments here. As I was saying . . .…
From the Multiversity Cave: Aquinas and Synthesis
Saginaw, MI This post is part of a series that will explore what prominent thinkers can teach us about today’s public multiversity, the modern university with its many colleges, departments,…
The Locality of the Church. Or, Where’s Wilson?
Such is the wisdom of James Matthew Wilson that it appears a jewel precious in the eyes of Jason Peters. This Peters will embarrass and pester and spout folk wisdom, and then engage…
An Amazon Rhythm
There’s a recent piece in The New Yorker on the new Amazon Dash Button. For those who don’t know, the Dash Button is a small button you place in your…
Localist Linkfest
If you come across articles I should include in this weekly round-up, email me at bloom.jordan[at]gmail[dot]com or tweet me here. The City of Detroit is pettifogging one of the best…
Why Cities Ought to, Sometimes, Challenge Their States
[Cross-posted to In Medias Res] On next Tuesday’s ballot here in Wichita, KS, voters will be able to, whether they realize it or not, directly contribute to an ongoing struggle…
The Lure of Unreason
It is a pedestrian fact of logic that one may not consistently argue to a correct conclusion from an incorrect premise. There are exceptions to this fact, as in the…
Missouri Loves Company
I’ve caught a lot of lucky breaks (or unmerited graces) in my life. For instance, I had two superb editors at Henry Holt, which in 2003 published Dispatches from the…
Was 1964 the Most Important Year — Ever?
Ask an American of even above-average intelligence what happened in 1964, and the predictable answer would be “Beatlemania” (although the politically sensitive conservative might cite the stirring defeat of Barry…
“I’ve been called a Marxist and a conservative. I guess both are kind of true.”
Matthew Crawford, about whom we have talked a good deal before here at Front Porch Republic, is back with a new book. Like so many other wise observers of our…
Localist Roundup: A New Localist Roundup
You may have noticed that Localist Roundup—FPR’s bi-weekly short post collecting articles of interest from across the internet—has vanished in recent weeks. This post is a continuation of that series,…
The Letter to Iran and Bipartisan Hype
Sioux Center, Iowa. Most Republican members of the U.S. Senate have signed a public letter to the Iranian government warning that any agreement with President Obama that is not approved…
