The View From Your Front Porch
Olathe, Kansas -- On Saturday I looked back from my front porch, my walk having been cut short by a soft rain. As you...
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...
“There Was Also Much Singing”: A Review of The Hound of...
In his estimable history of distributism and its major figures, Jobs of Our Own, Australian economist and former MP Race Matthews records an account...
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...
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...
Gird Your Loins: It’s an Election
Holland, MI
On Inauguration Day 2009 various organizations at my college held a celebration to mark the inauguration of America’s first African-American president. Large TV...
Liberal Culture?
The word “culture” readily falls from our lips, but what appears on first glance to be a clear-cut notion becomes much more complex as...
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, and including many other wonders seen on the road from Cleveland, Ohio, to Portland, Maine.
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...