On Canada, Conservatism, Tories, and Blackberries
Wichita, KS
In honor of Canada Day, in the fine federation (though these days, in the eyes of a majority of Canadians, less a federation...
Will Wendell Be Jailed?
Claremont, CA. Wendell Berry, writer and farmer and hero to the people, might move from the farmhouse to the big house.
Speaking at one of...
Carolina is for Pig-Lovers
BURNED-OVER DISTRICT, NY--Here comes the Fourth, and instead of asking why Americans revolted against remote authority in 1776 yet countenance it today, let us...
What’s Modernity Marx Got to Do With It? (FPR vs. PoMoCon,...
Wichita, KS
Blogger though I am, I can't deny that there is a major advantage to arguments conducted through the slower media of paper (to...
Aristotle and the Cult of the Immediate
In the current economic and political crisis, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is not likely to be one of the first places that Americans go looking...
C’mon Do the Pomocomotion With Me
A few impressions on the state of play.
1. Agree with JMW that this exchange has not been very helpful, and reiterate first thought that...
Not My Hometown
Let it not be said that FPR indiscriminately supports "localism." I believe that all my compatriots here would agree that this is one...
FPR v. PoMoCon, Part Deux
Some heat and even some light have been generated in the numerous comments that followed upon my original posting in which I threw some...
The Old School
My review of Jonathan Zimmerman's Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory appears in today's Wall Street Journal ("In One Room, Many...
Southern Adulteration
Devon, PA. I have had only a few hours to appreciate the spectacle of talking-heads devouring the carrion of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford's...