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Bringing it all Back Home
Reason's Jesse Walker on Benjamin Looker's account of Karl Hess, Milton Kotler, and the power-to-the-neighborhoods movement of the late '60s and early '70s: http://reason.com/blog/2012/07/10/all-power-to-the-neighborhoods.
The View From Your Front Porch
Anaheim, Calif. - Nestled between busy thoroughfares dotted with low-slung motels, palm readers, and bail bondsmen, around the corner from the Taqueria and the Clinica Medica del Sagrado Corazon, one…
Clang, Clang Go the Jail Guitar Doors
Today from The American Conservative: www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/rockys-drug-war/
On Recent Supreme Court Rulings
As July Fourth approaches and we all pat ourselves on the back for being so free, the folks at Chronicles have had a field day with recent SCOTUS decisions, focusing especially on Bush II-appointee…
Firm Identities and Loose Borders
Hillsdale, Michigan. A drive back from New England to the upper mid-West on Tuesday gave me ample time to hear the journalistic accounts of the Supreme Court's decision on Arizona's…
Freedom Is Not The Good
As vice-president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Louisville’s own Archbishop Kurtz has led the way in expressing Church disapproval of the Obama administration's health care plan. According…
A Footloose Spring Day
On a gorgeous April Wednesday I am filling in as substitute homeschool teacher. We do arithmetic; we do a language lesson about adverbs and Emily Dickinson. Then—did I mention the…
Timothy Steele: A Critical Introduction — An Update
Devon, PA. I was delighted to announce, this last week, the publication of my second book, Timothy Steele: A Critical Introduction. A few copies of the book remain available for…
The Flaw in Jefferson’s Idea of Ward Republics
Thomas Jefferson’s agrarianism has long been vulnerable to attack by unsympathetic critics. Given that Jefferson ultimately banks on virtue rather than folly, this is of course to be expected; but…
Buffy Slays the Academy
Devon, PA. Insiderhighered.com reports: Slate published an analysis of the relative popularity (as topics to academics) of various pop culture topics. Judging popularity by the total papers, books and essays…
What Was High School For Anyway?
[Cross-posted to In Medias Res] Twenty-five years ago today (I think; my memory is far from perfect) I graduated from Central Valley High School in Spokane Valley (then "Veradale"), WA.…
You Have Thought Up the Wrong World
In the spring of 1994 my grandmother chose to go off dialysis. Four days later, she was dead. I still remember my parents waking me up in the middle of…
My Second Book, Published Already
Last night, at the West Chester University Poetry Conference, my second book, Timothy Steele: A Critical Introduction, was released. As its title indicates, it is a monograph on the great…
Ray of Light
Ray Bradbury may be at peace, but I doubt he's resting. Herewith an old essay of mine on the boy from Waukegan as a Midwestern regionalist.
Front Porches in Chattanooga
On Monday, June 11, I will be lecturing as part of the marvelous "Monteagle Sunday School Assembly," a longstanding summer community based in Chattanooga, TN. Originally inspired by the Chautauqua…
Creative Destruction and its Benefits, China-Style
[Cross-posted to In Medias Res] A few weeks ago I was visited by a fellow Wichita resident who was thinking about getting into politics. We talked for a while about…
Why We Consent to the Wholesale Destruction of Good Land
Harrison County, Ohio. After I first moved to Harrison County, my smaller children used to beg that we drive home after excursions via a little-used road that passes through a…
Provincializing the University: A Proposal for Reform
Last November, FPR readers may recall, some of our writers held a panel discussion on The Place of Education at the University of Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture's…
The Mishawaka Cruisers
They make their measured circuit along three blocks of neon fast-food chains, the darkened panes of auto dealerships, the Checks-Cashed, and the boarded Dollar Store.
Misanthropy or Hymenopteraphilia? E.O. Wilson is Ant(i)-Gracehoper
Devon, PA. DePaul University in Chicago has many distinguished qualities. Most striking among them would seem to be that it is nominally a Catholic university, and yet not only are most…
Uncle Joe Vs. “Too Big to Fail”
Devon, PA. Outside of a few magazines and other fora on the conservative and collectivist fringe, one seldom hears the opinion that the banking crisis of 2008 was brought about…
A Sheeshah Pipe for the Porch?
I came to Cairo to get a better sense of the prospects for such a global conversation. If the battle over values is likely to play out globally in this…
Getting the Garden Going, One Baby-Step at a Time
[Cross-posted to In Medias Res] This academic year Friends University found itself wondering what to do with a plot of land, directly beside and behind some student dormitories. Through a…