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[Cross-posted to In Medias Res] Over the weekend, a friend of mine shared an article which had joined in the Hillary Clinton-Bernie Sanders fight, a fight which may come to…

My wife and I were married at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, on the near west side of South Bend, Indiana.  I’ve written about her before, that Church, fashioned nearly two…

[Cross-posted to In Medias Res] Wichita, KS, is a large city, a regional center for manufacturing, medicine, finance, and the arts. It's also a politically conservative place, which means that…

From the New Oxford Review, Will Hoyt on his move from Berkeley to eastern Ohio.

From Stephen Heiner, a Porcher in Paris: https://fleming.foundation/2015/11/paris-the-day-after/

A wonderful (porchy) piece over at The Imaginative Conservative: http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2015/11/why-you-should-stay-in-your-hometown.html

Bk IV, ch. 3: But let us suppose a case of two men; for each individual man, like one letter in a language, is as it were the element of…

FPR gets a mention over in this Jacobin article by Lyle Jeremy Rubin, a PhD candidate at Rochester. He notices two things but doesn't do a very good job of distinguishing them:…

Our friends at the American Conservative are having a conference in a few weeks in DC, about a new, less hawkish foreign policy direction for the United States. Have a look…

An interesting article on why local investing is not just good, but smart: As the movement for socially responsible investing (SRI) matures, a growing number of its movers and shakers…

Here is the program for the upcoming FPR conference in Geneseo, NY on October 3. If you have not already done so, register here. You won't want to miss this…

In a recent broadside against the teachings of what Damon Linker correctly notes today as the world's "politically inconvenient pontiff," George F. Will--with unsurprising dogmatism, unfortunately--lays bare the liberal roots…

FRONT PORCH REPUBLIC CONFERENCE COMES TO SUNY GENESEO OCTOBER 3 “Sustainable Localism: Sages, Prophets, and Jesters,” the fifth annual Front Porch Republic conference, will be held on Saturday, October 3…

[Cross-posted to In Medias Res] As I write this review, I keep hearing about Jeb Bush, campaigning for president, talking about how the invasion of Iraq and the removal of…

Okay, one more advert for myself, or rather my latest, lukewarm off the presses from Front Porch Republic Books: Poetry Night at the Ballpark and other Scenes from an Alternative…

The fifth annual Front Porch Republic conference will be held on October 3 in Geneseo, New York. The conference will explore sustainable localism and will feature a panel on the…

Tarkington, that is. America Moved, edited by our very own Jeremy Beer, receives an exceptionally fine review in the University Bookman by their fellow Hoosier Nathan P. Origer.

I am the illegitimate son of Dorothy Day and H.D. Thoreau.

First off, I'm filling in for Mike Church on Monday morning again, from 6-9 on Sirius XM Patriot 125. The last hour will be a religious liberty roundtable featuring our…

Wendell Berry and Pope Francis have been drinking from the same well of living water.  I dig into the connections between the pope and the plowman at First Things.

I'll be speaking tonight at St. Isidore's in Grand Rapids as part of their "Fortnight for Freedom" series. My topic is "Two Cities: Can Catholics and Liberals Co-exist?" You'll have…

I have a little scoop over at TheDC, a picture of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, at a Sons of Confederate Veterans meeting in the early 1990s. Back then he…

https://twitter.com/Bencjacobs/status/614443206378418177 Some megachurches are scanning their congregants' faces to check their attendance. Possible oldest footprints in North America found FAIR: "NPR Celebrates Fast-Track Victory With an All-Corporate Lobbyist Segment" Ellen…

I'm over at the Guardian, making the case.