J. Arthur Bloom
J. Arthur Bloom has served as the managing editor of Front Porch Republic, opinion editor of the Daily Caller, and was the founder of the group blog The Mitrailleuse. Previously he was associate editor of The American Conservative. He is a graduate of the College of William and Mary, and a Virginian.
Articles by J. Arthur Bloom
Ralph Nader to Host Hometown Book Festival
The tireless consumer advocate and presidential candidate will be hosting the "Booming Winsted" book festival on July 30-31 in his hometown of Winsted, Connecticut. From the press release: “This is…
Against Scaling Up
In The Atlantic, Cambridge professor Antara Haldar tells the story of Oregon's Stumptown Coffee, and how being bought by Peet's last October could, "corrode the very core of what has, so far, sustained…
Ciceronian Society conference, March 10-12
A note from our friends at the Ciceronian Society about their upcoming conference: The Ciceronian Society invites you to their sixth-annual conference at Mount Saint Mary's University, March 10th-12, 2016…
Jacobin Notices Anti-Capitalist Right
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:…
TAC Foreign Policy Conference in DC, November 4
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…
Invest Local
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…
Localist Linkfest
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…
Mitch McConnell’s Hypocrisy
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…
Localist Linkfest
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…
Localist linkfest
Why Evelyn Waugh stopped voting Parochial plug for the best state, from Nathaniel Beverley Tucker: The Virginian is a Virginian every where. In the wilds of the west, on the…
Localist linkfest
Adam Gurri on persuasion and economics Henry George vs. Jane Jacobs The Upper East Side housewife: a pop-anthropological study With friends like these, the humanities don't need enemies: Enrollment in…