Mafia Among the Mountain Folk
What ironies of fate converged that morning, such that a mob was about to come out on a march against us?
Citizenship and Its Discontents
This lecture by Wilson Carey McWilliams was delivered at St. John's College in New Mexico on April 1, 1995. It is heretofore unpublished....
Reconquista and the Gospel
Those who believe themselves above primitive nativist loyalty should take care, lest they be discovered worse than infidels for falling short of it.
Everyone Needs a Little Localism (or Leroy) in Their Lives
Wichita, KS
(This is, in many ways, connected to yesterday's post on Shannon Hayes's Radical Homemakers, but it also stands very much on its own.)
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Sitting Inside a Mountain
Breaking free from the voices, soundtrack, machinery, and plastic of consumption and advertising gives an individual the opportunity to consider questions and ideas that the world outside St. Raymond’s continually beats into the ground.
The Beauty of Tolkien’s Quest
Tolkien understands the deepest of our longings and makes us understand them better than before.
Agrarian Politics: Why I Care
Interest in agrarian politics can start in childhood. As feminists used to say, "The personal is political."
“Southern Conservatism”: The View from Brooklyn
The James Madison Program at Princeton often provides an unexpected breath of common-sensical fresh air in the academic fever-swamps. Last March it held...
Going Home
The South, repatriated ex-slave Ned Douglass lectured his Louisiana neighbors in Ernest J. Gaines’s novel The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, is “yours because...