Localist Roundup: Horse-Drawn Carriages and Portable Churches
This article reports on the continuing saga of legal challenges to NSA data collection. In other court news, as the Affordable Care Act goes...
Hope for a Humane Agricultural Future: A Review of Saying NO...
The ecomodernist approach of Regenesis relies on a mechanistic understanding of humanity. The presumption is that humans are merely fleshy machines that can adapt to flourish in any environment as long as their basic material needs are met. That doesn’t match with most people’s experience of life.
Homeschooling and Red Herrings
Repeatedly, some of the best students I have taught have been homeschooled. What set them apart was precisely the spirit of bold curiosity that I see in my own kids: that bright light in their eyes, an interest in asking questions and in pursuing rabbit trails independently.
The Young and the Insurance-Less
Claremont, CA. In the current conversation on health care, we often hear that the crises of costs and coverage are problems that come with...
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...
Social Justice vs. Social Charity
The Pernicious Nature of Charity
There is a pernicious force that operates in all societies, but especially in ours and especially in these sad days....
What’s In Your Garage?
No home but the Garden was there originally for man, once upon a very long time ago. No garage either was part of life before expulsion from Eden.
The Decline of David Brooksian Civilization
Claremont, CA. Men of Western civilization, take note: David Brooks thinks that you – and he – are done for.
In a recent exchange with...
Bring Me My Bow of Burning Gold: Micturition and Its Discontents
Why have we persisted in peeing outdoors well after the advent of outhouses and toilets?
The Art(s) of Liberation
None of us gets to choose where we land. But if we cannot choose the times in which we live, we can choose how we live in the time we are given. Will we do so thoughtfully or heedlessly? Courageously or cravenly? Honestly and honorably or falsely and deplorably?