Economic Smackdown!: ‘Porchers’ vs. ‘Austrians’
Earlier this month, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute held a summer program for college students in Louisville, Kentucky. Titled "Arguing Conservatism," the event featured faculty...
Holy Days, Holidays and the Weekend, or: Are we all Proletarians...
Archduchess Maria Theresa, wife of the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Franz Stephan of Habsburg-Lothringen, is on the way to her desk. She...
Nourishing America
In a recently popular documentary, Rosie, a 5th-grader from a small town in Colorado, describes how she often goes to bed with an empty...
An Imaginary Conservatism: The Realists vs. the Romantics
Reprinted from Ethika Politika
Michael Hannon has made a serious attempt to deal with the disputes between the “capitalist” and “anti-capitalist” conservatives, and such a...
Possessive Individualism: Can We Really Own Ourselves?
The bedrock principle of all Liberalism, whether of the Right or the Left, is Locke’s assertion that “every man has a Property in his...
Piketty’s Challenge: A Past That Consumes the Future
But the rate of profit does not, like rent and wages, rise with the prosperity, and fall with the declension of the society. On...
How Marx Explains the Pomo-Con/Front-Porch Divide, In Four Easy Steps
Via Rod Dreher, I see that the occasionally interesting blog Postmodern Conservative has departed its longtime home at the (often, if not always) theoconservative...
The Demise of Virtue in Virtual America (Front Porch Republic Books)
Entrance:Virtual America’s Convention Hall
Demise—1) the conveyance of an estate 2) transfer
of the sovereignty to a successor 3) a: death b:...
Anarchism, Global Citites, and a Confucian Cosmopolitan Education
I recently attended a conference in Nanjing, China, hosted by the Hopkins-Nanjing Center and organized our fellow Porcher, Adam Webb. You can read a...
Conservatism, Localism, and the Mittelpolitan Problem
This morning, I completed a series of lectures and discussions with a local civic group here in Wichita. The topic for this morning...