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Once again St. Michael Orthodox Church here in Louisville will be hosting the annual Climacus Conference, with this year's event focusing on the artistic, intellectual, and spiritual legacy of Byzantium.…

Brian (no relation to Lefty) Frizzell, Brooklyn's archivist of Americana, sends a link to Matt Morris's Pickin' & Trimmin' http://vimeo.com/31066145, a lovely documentary short film about a barbershop in Drexel, North…

This piece from the Sunday Times serves as a reminder that the claims made for technology, progress, and modern conveniences are too overblown, and that human beings have fundamental longings…

This is the kind of states' rights I like: Montana’s Supreme Court has issued a stunning rebuke to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010 that infamously decreed…

Here is an article describing how Kansas is leading the way toward a less centralized future. The “revolution in a cornfield” that is happening today in Gov. Sam Brownback's Kansas…

Porch readers will be interested in the new online symposium on distributism that is now on ANAMNESIS, A Journal for the Study of Tradition, Place, and 'Things Divine.' This includes…

In this essay, former Wall Street Investment Banker, Michael Thomas, expresses his frustration and disillusion with our current economic system. His credibility comes from three decades on Wall Street. In…

[Cross-posted to In Medias Res] As Christmas and the end of 2011 approaches, I find myself thinking gratefully about what Leroy Hershberger has enabled my students and me to learn…

This Christmas--like last Christmas, and the one before that , and the one before that....--hundreds of thousands of our countrymen and women are far from their homes and families, fighting…

In this season of the "holidays," it was announced several days ago that Fairfax County schools would be permitted to install video surveillance cameras in High Schools. Fairfax County is…

We are at a turning point, according to McKibben. The era of the big and few is being replaced by a new era of the small and the many. Take…

At long last The Humane Vision of Wendell Berry is available. This volume, published by ISI Books and co-edited by Nathan Schlueter and yours truly, includes sixteen original essays on…

Do we get an economy that serves the people? Or do we get the right people to serve the economy?

My latest book was cited as an "authority" before the Supreme Court in Florida v. HHS, the "Obamacare" case. You can read the brief here, if you are bored. This…

When next you stumble into the corner video store: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog/redford-goes-ron-paul/

Until one of us finds the time to slap down Joe Carter's attack on distributism (as Rod Dreher called upon us to do), I'll direct our good readers to a…

I received the latest issue of the essential journal The New Atlantis yesterday, and was honored once again to appear in its pages. The essay in question - entitled "The…

Several months ago I claimed that “the American conservative’s attitude toward education is often even worse than that of his [liberal] counterpart.” It turns out Rush Limbaugh has been so…

The New Yorker examines the animating ideas behind OWS. I suppose this is what happens when childishness, boredom, social media, anxiety, and apocalypticism mix. Or, history repeating itself as farce.…

The Atlantic Cities blog this month takes a look at a quarterly home design trend survey from the American Institute of Architects.  Apparently in hard economic times, homeowners have different…

Walter Russell Mead takes on the Baby Boomers.

If you haven’t read Euthyphro, then you should. If you have read it, then you should read it again.

I will be lecturing tomorrow, Thursday, November 17 at the University of Texas at Austin. My lecture is entitled "Why Great Books?" and is being sponsored by the Jefferson Center…

Video of the September 24, 2011 conference at Mount St. Mary's University is now up on You Tube. Search for "human scale conference" or click here. Thanks to the tech…