Results for “murdock”

After Virtual: Education

The second episode from the FPR conference After Virtual:  The Art of Recovering Lost Goods looks at education.  Jeff Polet discusses walking away from Hope.  Angel Adams Parham talks…
John Murdock
November 29, 2022

After Virtual: Chris Arnade

Chris Arnade, the keynote speaker at the After Virtual conference, has traded global finance for skid row photography.  Chris discusses his journey from Wall Street board rooms to a…
John Murdock
December 20, 2022

After Virtual: Health

The penultimate session from the FPR conference After Virtual:  The Art of Recovering Lost Goods addresses health.  Philosopher Adam Smith from the University of Dubuque and medical doctor Brian…

After Virtual: Civic Life

The After Virtual conference podcast series closes with a focus on civics and cemeteries.  Mark Mitchell, author of Plutocratic Socialism, talks on, well, plutocrats and socialism (plus the importance…

Paul Kingsnorth’s Opening Prayer

Paul Kingsnorth, the keynote speaker at the 2023 FPR conference in Madison, Wisconsin, begins things with a bonus talk on the power of prayer in a desecrated western world.   …
John Murdock
November 13, 2023

Paul Kingsnorth and “The Blizzard of the World”

Paul Kingsnorth delivered the keynote address at the 2023 FPR conference in Madison, Wisconsin.  With help from a diverse band of fellow travelers including Jewish-Canadian songwriter Leonard Cohen, Anglo-Catholic…
John Murdock
November 14, 2023

Imagining Life Beyond the Machine: Eric Miller and Jason Peters

Eric Miller, biographer of Christopher Lasch and a professor at Geneva College, plus longtime porcher Jason Peters of Hillsdale College address the role of imagination in shaping our shared…

Human Responses to Technology

Jeff Bilbro, FPR’s super-beaver EIC and Grove City College professor, looks to ancient mythology to assess modern technology and fiction of the future. Cassandra Nelson of the University of…

Brian Miller on Kayaking with Lambs

Brian Miller visits the porch to talk about his new book chronicling life on a Tennessee farm. Highlights 1:30       Bayou Bengal Volunteer farmer 5:45       A monastic text 11:15   …

Living Outside the Machine

Ashley Colby, founder of the Rizoma Field School, digs up inspiring true stories of resistance and restoration (with references to donkeys, elephants, and our 49th state).   Bill Kauffman, author…

Family Time with Timothy Carney

Timothy Carney, an AEI senior fellow and the author of Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be, talks about the village…

For Nancy French-ism

You may have heard of David French, the New York Times columnist and almost 2016 presidential candidate who over the last 8 years has become an unlikely right-wing Rorschach…

Ghost Stories with Nancy French

Longtime ghostwriter Nancy French tells her own tale in Ghosted: An American Life. French was raised in rural Tennessee and would later provide the words behind famous talking heads…

Yuval Levin on Our Constitution

The AEI scholar and author of American Covenant joins John to talk about a document that he believes could unify we the people, again.  Highlights 1:30       Second home 8:15      …
John Murdock
September 17, 2024

Tri Robinson Looks Back in Thanks  

After a life of physical and spiritual adventure, an innovative homesteading teacher and pastor turns green with gratitude. Highlights 1:00 California to Idaho (before everybody was doing it) 12:00…
John Murdock
December 17, 2024

This Valetudinarian World

John Murdock I concur that there are parallels between COVID and climate. However, if you are to invoke Mr. Berry, then you do need to deal with the fact…

Fact’s Two Faces: On the Masking of Children at School

...NIH not a fringe group. Note the second sentence in the Abstract: "Up until now, there has been no comprehensive investigation as to the adverse health effects masks can…
December 8, 2021

Putting Two Things Together: Reflections on Institution Building

...of bureaucrats and therapists managing infants. Joe S This college deserves encouragement. St. Joseph indeed built the most enduring family in history. The accreditation and funding challenges will be…
October 28, 2022

Planning and The Politics of Beauty: Reflections on Stewart Udall

...show two dimensions. They fail to portray biomass accurately because they ignore the immense height of primary forests, especially in tropical areas. John Murdock Readers may appreciate hearing the…
November 11, 2022

The Power of Place: Northern Exposure and South Side

Pat Palmer You have reminded me how much I enjoyed Northern Exposure and whetted my appetite for South Side which I have not watched. John Murdock Northern Exposure was…

Matt Walsh’s Racial Reckoning

...organization--especially all kinds of schools and colleges--have incorporated DEI into their workplaces and budgets. It's everywhere. Finally, it's OK to examine it. John Murdock Appreciate Kate's take on the…
Katherine Dalton
September 23, 2024