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Decision 2012: Rootin’ For Putin
The folks at Conservative Heritage Times have kindly asked me to participate in a virtual symposium -- something similar to those being held by the FPR editors and the American Conservative writers. Anyone curious…
What Women Voters Want: Addendum
Kate has captured nicely a kind of sexual nihilism regnant in contemporary feminism. It has now become campaign fodder: Obama Ad Were this my daughter I would be mortified. This…
The Wrong Side of History
Berwyn, PA. Cardinal George offers us the strong words -- not of oracular prophecy, but of historical wisdom. A few passages: Communism imposed a total way of life based upon the…
Why Urban Christians Need Wendell Berry
At Christianity Today, Jake Meador argues that Wendell Berry has something important to teach urban Christians. At root, Berry's Port William is a worshiping community. Indeed, I don't know another…
Finger Foods
Set in the heart of the Burned-Over District, the Finger Lakes region of New York is among the culturally, historically, and culinarily richest parts of the country. Now it has…
George McGovern, RIP
My 2006 profile/interview of the patriot from Mitchell, South Dakota: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/come-home-america-2/.
Whither the Liberal Arts College? Or, Why Bloom’s Critique Doesn’t Matter
One sees signs of dètente in the academic wars that were highlighted by Allan Bloom’s Closing of the American Mind. At a more reflective level this can be seen in…
Intellectual Historians on Intellectual Conservatism
Seth Bartee over at the U.S. Intellectual History blog has a piece on the Intercollegiate Studies Institute which includes a reference or two to FroPo conservatives: Essentially neo-conservatives successfully homogenized…
Boycotting Boycotts
David Walbert explains how to avoid hypocrisy. Last week, walking across campus to the library, I was interrupted (I don’t want to say “accosted”) by a woman in her early…
Debt-Free Farming
Over at The American Conservative website, Glenn Arbery writes of a farmer who seeks to remain as independent and self-sufficient as possible. But it has not been easy. Nevertheless, These…
Tocqueville and Beyond
In a recent interview Chilton Williamson talks about his new book After Tocqueville, described by former FPR contributor John Willson as “the best book on democracy in the past hundred years.”…
A Goodman is Hard to Find
I’m happy to report that New York Review Books has just reprinted Growing Up Absurd (1960), Paul Goodman’s classic plea for the human scale against the postwar corporate and military-industrial…
Historian on the Debate
The blogosphere is filled with opinions on last night's debate between the president and the challenger. The chattering classes has gotten a whole lot larger. Unless you are a historian…
The Banks we Deserve, the Economy we can Sustain
If you didn't catch this panel put on by Marketplace and BBC, it's pretty exciting. It takes the expert panel only about 10 minutes (2:00 to 12:40) to get to…
Thanks to Jason Peters, aka The Bar Jester
Since FPR's inception in March of 2009, Jason Peters has written a weekly column. Without missing a single week, he has, with his inimitable style, regaled FPR readers with his…
Eros, Agape, and Community
From the The Orthosphere come Part I and Part II of the pseudonymous physicist Bonald's reflections on Christianity, love, and community--reflections based in part upon the work of one of the twentieth century’s…
Conference Schedule
The conference will be on the campus of Hope College in Holland, MI. Go to the Maas Conference Center on the corner of Tenth and Columbia, on the back side…
FPR Conference Details
There is still time to register for the conference by clicking here. We will also be welcoming walk-up registrants on-site, but if you go that route you'll have to pay…
Don’t It Make You Wanna Go Home Now?
Joe South, RIP: http://youtu.be/8V1JJqNKjVU. "God, how I wanna go home...."
FPR Conference: Register Now
If you have put off registering for the conference but plan to attend, please register if possible. This will give us a better idea of how much food we'll need…
McCarthy on conservatism and the post-Boomer generations
Must-read stuff this morning from Dan McCarthy at the The American Conservative. Dan argues that the Gen X and the Millennial generations are not necessarily more liberal than their Boomer…
Neil Armstrong, R.I.P.
Regardless of how one may feel about the Space Age, the reticent Midwesterner who passed away Saturday was an American hero if ever there was one. Prior to his historic race with…
Sixth Circuit Rules Even Attorneys Have First Amendment Rights
Cincinnati, Ohio, and New Castle, Kentucky. Late last month the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court judgment and found that the Kentucky Bar Association had violated…
