The Editors
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Against Rationalism, Idealism, and Abstraction
Part II in an ongoing series, Localism and the Universal Church. Read Part I here. Where the traditionalist position I have sketched appears weakest is precisely where it speaks most…
McCarthy on conservatism and the post-Boomer generations
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…
“There Was Also Much Singing”: A Review of The Hound of Distributism
In his estimable history of distributism and its major figures, Jobs of Our Own, Australian economist and former MP Race Matthews records an account of the distinctive atmosphere of the…
Neil Armstrong, R.I.P.
Regardless of how one may feel about the Space Age, the reticent Midwesterner who passed away Saturday was an American hero if ever there was one. Prior to his historic race with…
The Problem of Place
Part I in an ongoing series, Localism and the Universal Church. Devon, PA. Several times during the last couple years, the FPR comment boxes have received protests against the supposed “placelessness”…
Sixth Circuit Rules Even Attorneys Have First Amendment Rights
Cincinnati, Ohio, and New Castle, Kentucky. Late last month the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court judgment and found that the Kentucky Bar Association had violated…
Legitimized Rapes
Claremont, CA. In Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead, the hero Howard Roark violently rapes a woman named Dominique, forcing her into submission “like a master taking shameful, contemptuous possession” of a…
Paul Ryan: More of the Same
When the New York Times reported that Governor Romney was facing pressure from the “Right” to name Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) as his running mate, the flagship newspaper of the…
The FPR conference lineup
Here is the tentative, don't-hold-us-legally-accountable-if-it-ain't-exactly-this-way lineup of speakers for the Front Porch Republic conference on September 15 at Hope College, in Holland, Michigan. We'll let you know if there are…
Public versus Government Schools
In an essay posted at the law and liberty blog I explored how Progressives seek to rear citizens--to create the kind of citizens well suited to the Progressive administrative state.…
LDS Trip
Musings on our Burned-Over District neighbors, the Mormons: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/just-deseret/.
The Anti-tradition of Modern Art
Those acquainted with Tom Wolfe's essay “The Invisible Artist” or Solzhenitsyn's “Playing On The Strings Of Emptiness” will find a familiar theme in this recent New English Review piece by poet…
America, One Minor League Ballpark at a Time
Being a report on a journey whereupon I dragged my wife to see seven minor league baseball games in seven days, as well as the National Baseball Hall of Fame,…
Big Society: Can the Britons “Build That”?
The place is Great Britain; the year is 2011. Years of economic downturn have brought the unsustainability of government-funded social services to a crisis point. Prime Minister David Cameron re-launches…
A View from the Studebaker Servants’ Quarters
I’ve breathed its dust in, taken careful note how plastic urns break in the snow; how I can merely mock at stone’s sad history; pronounce its fate, perhaps, but just…
“Like Most Satirists I am a Reactionary”
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....
Whatever Happened to the Playful Ad Hominem?
Few things excited or engaged my mind as a child as much as Buckley’s playful ad hominem attacks, launched regularly at his guests on Firing Line. The debates concerned heavy…
Nisbet, Austerity, and Progressive Community
Over at the Liberty and Law blog I am writing a series of essays in which I examine Robert Nisbet’s ideas in light of contemporary austerity. In the first essay…
The View From Your Front Porch
Bethune, S.C. -- I am told there used to be a small dairy farm of less than 50 cows just a quarter-mile down the road from where we stay. If…
Romney Photo
I received my official photo of Mitt Romney in the mail today. It came from the Republican National Committee. It shows Governor Romney standing before an unpainted barn, an American…
Agrarianism & Gay Marriage
Rod Dreher has an American Conservative post up expressing concern regarding Wendell Berry’s views on “gay marriage”. Dreher is reacting to statements like the following, made by Berry during a…
Caped Crusaders and the Flight From Society
The American appetite for cinematic adaptations of children’s stories about grown men who dress as rodents to save the world from grown men dressed as reptiles is bottomless. The Avengers is already…
