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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…
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 screens were set up around…
Paul Ryan: More of the Same
When the New York Times reported that Governor Romney was facing pressure from the “Right” to name Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) as his running mate, the flagship newspaper of the…
The FPR conference lineup
Here is the tentative, don't-hold-us-legally-accountable-if-it-ain't-exactly-this-way lineup of speakers for the Front Porch Republic conference on September 15 at Hope College, in Holland, Michigan. We'll let you know if there are…
LDS Trip
Musings on our Burned-Over District neighbors, the Mormons: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/just-deseret/.
The Anti-tradition of Modern Art
Those acquainted with Tom Wolfe's essay “The Invisible Artist” or Solzhenitsyn's “Playing On The Strings Of Emptiness” will find a familiar theme in this recent New English Review piece by poet…
“Like Most Satirists I am a Reactionary”
Native son and caustically loving biographer of our country Gore Vidal (http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-last-republican) has died. Don't mourn; read: Burr, Lincoln, Screening History, Homage to Daniel Shays, United States, The Last Empire....
Scotch on the Bruce
Owen Sound, ONT The Bruce Peninsula extends like a claw off Southern Ontario’s main land mass into the Great Lakes basin. Forming a long arc with Manitoulin Island, the Bruce…
FPR Conference Details
Whether or not you've yet registered for the FPR Conference, the following information may be of interest: We will be hosting the conference in the Maas Conference Center on the campus…
Agrarianism & Gay Marriage
Rod Dreher has an American Conservative post up expressing concern regarding Wendell Berry’s views on “gay marriage”. Dreher is reacting to statements like the following, made by Berry during a…
Register Now for FPR’s Fall Conference in Holland, MI
Registration is now open for our Second Annual Conference to be held on September 15. This time we will be in Holland, MI on the beautiful campus of Hope College.…
Prisoners Pedal to Produce Power
Meanwhile, an article from Tree Hugger: Brazil's Santa Rita do Sapucaí prison, following the suggestion of a local judge, recently installed electricity-generating stationary bikes as part of a plan to…
Bringing it all Back Home
Reason's Jesse Walker on Benjamin Looker's account of Karl Hess, Milton Kotler, and the power-to-the-neighborhoods movement of the late '60s and early '70s: http://reason.com/blog/2012/07/10/all-power-to-the-neighborhoods.
Clang, Clang Go the Jail Guitar Doors
Today from The American Conservative: www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/rockys-drug-war/
The 10,000 Mile Diet vs. the Locavores
The Atlantic has an on-line piece debating the virtues of the locavore movement. An economist named Pierre Desrochers is promoting his book titled The Locavore's Dilemma: In Praise of the…
On Recent Supreme Court Rulings
As July Fourth approaches and we all pat ourselves on the back for being so free, the folks at Chronicles have had a field day with recent SCOTUS decisions, focusing especially on Bush II-appointee…
An Alternative to Sprawl
According to an article in The New York Times, many Americans are tiring of the lifestyle associated with sprawl and, finally, developers are responding. The age of the McMansion may…
Long Live the Sovereign Republic of West Florida
Porchers will delight in this wonderful story and video featuring our own Rod Dreher.
American Cicero
Michael Federici of Mercyhurst College has posted on this site before, and is certainly a fellow-traveler. Some of you may be wondering why he hasn't posted in a while, and…
Timothy Steele: A Critical Introduction — An Update
Devon, PA. I was delighted to announce, this last week, the publication of my second book, Timothy Steele: A Critical Introduction. A few copies of the book remain available for…
Buffy Slays the Academy
Devon, PA. Insiderhighered.com reports: Slate published an analysis of the relative popularity (as topics to academics) of various pop culture topics. Judging popularity by the total papers, books and essays…
My Second Book, Published Already
Last night, at the West Chester University Poetry Conference, my second book, Timothy Steele: A Critical Introduction, was released. As its title indicates, it is a monograph on the great…
Democracy Follies
David Rieff has a nice piece over at Democracy Journal where he takes aim at those who stubbornly insist that exporting American-style democracy is a sound foreign policy. Rieff effectively…