Tocqueville’s Diagnosis
RINGOES, NJ As brilliant minds, armed with apparently endless supplies of money, thrash about Washington desperately attempting to fix what they have broken, it...
Oiko-Systems
Alexandria, VA. For many years now, "environmentalists" have sought to thwart the extension of forms of commerce and economic development that prove destructive of...
Against Monoculture
In plant or animal life, a single virus or bacteria, a single destructive fungus or disease, a single hostile predator or pest would wipe out an entire monoculture without the barest resistance. It is the very nature of nature to avoid monocultures - indeed, it cannot be otherwise since any form of monoculture cannot long exist in nature.
You Say Liturgy, I Say Lechery
I hurried up to Columbia University to inform my friends on the campus that I had located the Communist Party, had made contact with it,...
The Rediscovery of Agriculture?
RINGOES, NJ. Recently, a friend and I visited Polyface Farm outside Staunton, Virginia. Polyface is owned and operated by Joel Salatin, whose parents...
Ken Myers on Our Culture of One
Ken Myers, editor of the brilliant Mars Hill Audio Journal (on whose board I serve, I should add), essentially offers something of an implicit...
Men, Boys, and Guns
This past weekend, I was pulled away from the computer, from a sprinkler system that needs to be fixed, from a garden wall that...
Regionalism in the NY Times
While the pickings are generally slim, the NYTimes can sometimes reveal a glimmer of localism, at least in the only section worth reading, the...
Beer and Civic Life
Claremont, CA. The news is dreadful: According to the Census, since 2006 we have been living in a republic where, for the first time...
A Partially Localist Defense of Public Schooling
Wichita, KS President Obama's speech last week on the various hopes and goals his administration has in mind as they address the issue of...