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Poetry, Localism, and Postliberal Epistemology

“Verse Lines When the Streets Are on Fire.” James Matthew Wilson offers a stirring defense of poetry in a season of chaos: “Disease, disorder,...

No 2020 Conference, but Maybe a Local Porch

This announcement is a disappointment, although not a surprise. FPR has a few suggestions to temper your grief: Barbecue and pull some pork, then slather...

Left Conservatism, Public Lands, and Flannery O’Connor

As I try to do each year, I’ll be taking a break from the internet for a couple of weeks. FPR will continue publishing...

Cooperatives, Lasch’s Prescience, and Political Wisdom

I enjoyed some time off email and social media this past month, but I'm ready to resume these Water Dipper posts. I also want...

Tech Monopolies, Church Forests, and Publish and Perish

“Closing Time: We’re All Counting Bodies.” Clare Coffey reviews two recent books that diagnose American rot: “Who is in any serious doubt that the...

Hidden Wound, Living Bridges, and Local Food Processors

“What is Happening at Spring Arbor University?” I was informed this past week that this year will be my last at Spring Arbor University....

Serious Fun, Supernatural Justice, and a Wise Bald Eagle

“Reconsidering the Statesmanship of Abraham Lincoln.” Allen Guelzo reviews—and highly commends—Jon Schaff’s Abraham Lincoln’s Statesmanship: “The reader will come to the book’s end wishing that...

Salmon, American Chicken, and Scrutopia

“‘The Fish Rots from the Head’: How a Salmon Crisis Stoked Russian Protests.” Anton Troianovski traces the complex politics in an eastern Russian region...

Infected Brand Ambassadors, Corporate Clergy, and Anarchy

“How to Save British Farming (and the Countryside).” This summer I read James Rebanks’s new book English Pastoral. My short take is that it’s excellent....

Affability, Simone Weil, and Cassiodorus

“Jason Peters Writes to Entertain his Friends and Exasperate his Enemies.” Bill Kauffman is the perfect reviewer for Jason’s new book. Read the review,...