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Russell Arben Fox

Russell Arben Fox is a Front Porch Republic Contributing Editor. He grew up milking cows and baling hay in Spokane Valley, WA, but now lives in Wichita, KS, where he runs the History & Politics and the Honors programs at Friends University, a small Christian liberal arts college. He aspires to write a book about the theory and practice of democracy, community, and environmental sustainability in small to mid-sized cities, like the one he has made his and his family’s home; his scribblings pertaining to that and related subjects are collected at the Substack “Wichita and the Mittelpolitan.” He also blogs–irregularly and usually at too-great a length–more broadly about politics, philosophy, religion, socialism, bicycling, books, farming, pop music, and whatever else strikes his fancy, at “In Medias Res.”

Articles by Russell Arben Fox

Libertarians and Others Talking about Traditionalism

An argument about tradition commences.
January 11, 2011

The Kodachrome Era Ends, Right Here in Kansas

Mama, they took my Kodachrome away.
December 30, 2010

The Tea Party and the TSA

The idea that the best way to reform government is to simply say "No!" is probably a bad idea...but for the TSA, I'll make an exception.
November 15, 2010

As for Myself, I’m Less Than 30% Elitist (How About You?)

There's a deep and revealing purpose to figuring out if you're an elitist or not, though I'm not sure this quiz actually gets at it.
October 29, 2010

As Goes Reid, So Goes America (Maybe, Unfortunately)

Harry Reid's election in Nevada is all about an argument over the direction of the American system. Would that we could argue about the nature of that system instead.
October 21, 2010

Why I Hope Westboro Baptist Church, the ACLU, and Dahlia Lithwick Get Their Butts Kicked By the Supreme Court

Free speech is a good thing. Respecting the value of the whole community is a better one.
October 7, 2010

Hearing Wendell Berry

For Wendell Berry, the environmentalist cause and the localist cause are (or should be) one and the same.
September 26, 2010

Bicycling and the Simple (Socialist?) Life

Bicycling is fun, and environmentally friendly, but for me at least, it is even more importantly about being as free as possible from the complicated dependencies which the automobile economy…
September 14, 2010

Citizen-Soldiers, or Warriors?

Whether left or right, the ethical education of those we send to fight should concern us all.
July 30, 2010

Rod Dreher’s New Venture

Big Questions Online makes its appearance.
July 22, 2010

Defining Red Toryism (Again)

A scholar suggests that Phillip Blond's Red Toryism is just another word for conventional conservatism. He may be right about Blond, but he's definitely not about the idea.
June 17, 2010

Get Lost, “Friendship Coach”

Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn? Harry Potter and Ron Weasley? Anne Shirley and Diana Barry? Disruptive elements, all of them.
June 17, 2010