Results for “Lasch”
Bridging the Gap Between Narrative and Reality: Guido Preparata
...even have diagnosed it as “compound ignorance.” The Ideology of Tyranny Jeremy Beer recently authored a very excellent piece in this forum which demonstrated a few important lacunas in…
Bison, Ignorance, and Selfies
...“humanism — properly understood, properly chastened — forcefully repudiates the tyranny of categories.” “Seer of the Selfie.” Darran Anderson reads Christopher Lasch’s classic and finds plenty of reasons why…
Localism without Nostalgia
...people smoked more in the old days. I think nostalgia is a kind of optimism about the past, and optimism is cheap. We ought instead to approach the past…
My Teacher, My Friend
...be called “populist” sympathies, to supporting the sorts of traditional associations and commitments suspected and attacked by a range of historical liberal and “progressive” actors (the sort of “elites”…
Populist Revival?
...1980s, the historian and social critic Christopher Lasch pronounced dead the conventional political categories of right and left and argued for a revitalization of politics through a redefinition of…
Place, Limits, Liberty (In That Order)
...(and populism too, for that matter) will probably always be far distant from (and far more common than, as well) my own preferred Laschian-communitarian strain. But we go along.…
American Agrarian (On Sale Now)
...so as to satirize the Porch? Here, in a perfect snapshot, is the culture of narcissism. As Christopher Lasch explained, where once “advertising merely called attention to the product…
What You Need to Know about Paul Gottfried
...reactionary, right-winger, and right-wing pluralist to describe his views. He has written what is known as the Marxism Trilogy, a kind of rejoinder and addition to Christopher Lasch’s populist…
Presidential Politics: Pseudo Choices and a Third Party Worth Considering
...reading Christopher Lasch’s 1994 book The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy, and his critique of presidential politics and televised debates is only more accurate today:…
Dorothy Day, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Jimmy Dorrell
...Nebraskan Christopher Lasch, who made the transition from sixties-era socialist to defender of the old virtues. Lasch thought the erosion of the republican traditions of places like Kansas, the…
Abundance, Wilderness, and Algorithms
...fall issue of Local Culture apparently put Jason Peters in the mood to reflect on Lasch and the strange events of 2020. From history (and its sides) to the elites to…
Is Regime Change too Radical? Or too Conservative?
...because recent events have made it so hard to dispute." But is it, in fact Laschian? Certainly Deneen makes good use of Lasch's attacks on "progress" as an ideology,…
TAC Counter-Programming on Tea-Party Day
...for bringing these new links to my attention.) By the way, if you’re interested, a few years ago I wrote about Christopher Lasch’s rather interesting relationship to the Carter…
Shop Class and the Romantic Mode of Politics
...and Christopher Lasch come to mind) have pointed out, this is an existence increasingly hostile to the necessities of the body in favor of the supposed cultivation of the…
Flourishing, Paper, and Fake Meat
...transitory, and treasured. In the absence of culture, what’s borne into the world today is homo turista.” (Recommended by Dominic Garzonio.) “Christopher Lasch.” Current has assembled a two-part set…
End of the Culture Wars?
...middle” are likely to see. If arguments such as those of Bill Bishop and Richard Florida (as well as earlier iterations such as those of Robert Reich and Christopher…
Pondering St. Francisville, Gilead, and our Stories of Place
...tradition, which began with certain attachments, even if the customary implications of those attachments are now rejected. (The distinction between “memory” as “custom,” in this context, is quite important,…
FPR Conference. Register Now!
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…
FPR Conference. Register Now!
...legacy of Christopher Lasch, the late University of Rochester historian and social critic. Panelists will be Robb Westbrook, Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn, and Eric Miller. Other conference speakers will include Catherine…
Patmore: Prophetic Political Pessimist (and Localist?)
...has been able to discern what national life means, can find in private fortune wife, children, friends, money any compensation for the great life of which his veins are…
Gender is a Social Construct
...radical Catholic priest and one-time darling of the counter culture, Illich fellow-traveled with 1960s Marxism in drawing on the communal social norms of traditional societies to critique the radical…
Heaven Hath Limits
...pedestrian nuggets of wisdom such as, “I don’t like money; I just like what it can buy,” “Business is business” and many others. The book is apocalyptic, in the…
Wendell Berry’s Distractions, Productive Households, and Factory Farming
...Post-Liberal Moment.” James Matthew Wilson surveys recent debates about liberalism and finds some grounds for hope. “What Would Lasch Say?” John Fea interviews Eric Miller about how Lasch might…
Tech Critique, Simone Weil, and Visceral Lending
...abstract nature of our financial system and tries to imagine ways of making credit more local and tangible. “Democracy Betrayed: Lasch’s Revolt of the Elites at 25.” In a…