Results for “Lasch”
The Limits of Place
...the boundless greed that drives would-be Masters of the Universe from around the country to seek their fortunes on Wall Street and in Hollywood and Silicon Valley. Influenced by…
Thoughts on Elshtain
...dismissive. But I recognize that this is not the same thing as neglect, not the same thing as abuse. Perhaps, as the late Christopher Lasch insisted, the working-class or…
What You Need to Know About Dwight Macdonald
...about borrowing and buying, is found online. In 1988, progressive historian Michael Wreszin—past biographer of Oswald Garrison Villard and future biographer of Macdonald—argued with neocon historian Ronald Radosh and…
Politics on a Human Scale: Historiography
...that has ancient and medieval origins and includes Democracy in America (Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835, 1840), The Idea of Fraternity in America (Wilson Carey McWilliams, 1973), and The True…
Civic Engagement and the “Native Country”
...have accepted self-rule as something noble. As a result, we have cultivated the democratic virtues that people like Jean Elshtain and Christopher Lasch have cheered even as they worried…
The Demise of Virtue in Virtual America (Front Porch Republic Books)
...outlined here are finally mine, along with any blame for their failure to convince, they were inspired by and borrow from other works, especially the cultural criticism of Wendell…
Witchcraft in Church? Against Glamorous Worship
...point, in churches. Now please don’t tune out because you see Freud mentioned. Brophy uses Freud — in this case, Freud’s Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego…
Localist linkfest
...cost in money or acrimony among the faithful. He’s got a residency at a church in Dupont Circle, may have to pay him a visit. Bill Murchison on Christopher…
Whatever Happened to Communitarianism?
...any public-private distinction” in the name of a “a future perfect gemeinschaft” (Democracy on Trial, pg.49). In this, she was working the same intellectual theme as Christopher Lasch (whose…
Does North American Cultural History Provide for a ‘Third Option’?
...relatively-successful social-credit movement. Domestically, in the state of Nebraska, the populist idea would find a full-throated advocate in the critical student of Marx and Freud, and brilliant historian, Christopher…
Hillary’s Communitarian Moment, and Ours
...made by Christopher Lasch (whose final book, The Revolt of the Elites and the The Betrayal of Democracy was published posthumously in…you guessed it, 1996), who warned against a…
David Bosworth on his New Book, Conscientious Thinking: Making Sense in an Age of Idiot Savants
...constituency. In fact he writes with extraordinary grace and lucidity and calls to mind the work of earlier practitioners like Christopher Lasch, Jacques Ellul, and David Riesman, each of…
The Triumph of the Datum
The middle of the twentieth century abounded with writers who simultaneously analyzed their own times and predicted ours: Daniel Bell (The Coming of the Post-Industrial Society), Christopher Lasch (The…
At Last, the FPR Manifesto
...they have promoted such ideals as political decentralization, economic localism, cultural regionalism, and the dignity of both individuals and local communities. Key thinkers who serve to inspire and inform…
A Digital Relation to the Universe
...play where “another measure” is actually possible. Though Christopher Lasch’s haunting line from The Culture of Narcissism—that Americans wish to be “envied rather than respected,” or loved, I would…
Agroecology, Eric Miller, and Manual Labor
...week. It’s a conversation with Porcher Eric Miller about localism, the social fabric, and Christopher Lasch. We interviewed Willie Jennings for our first episode, and our conversation with Bill…
Front Porch Republic at 10
...Christopher Lasch, E.F. Schumacher, Wilhelm Röpke, Russell Kirk, Hilaire Belloc, G.K. Chesterton, and Alexis de Tocqueville. In the fall of 2011, FPR held the first of its annual conferences.…
The Original Front Porch
...Lasch, and of course, Saint Wendell. As I put it in a later essay, the work of FPR, in my view, would “require love above all … and no…
Learning to Read “the Book in Front of Us”
...host a series of conversations around a different sort of populism. We titled it “Politics from the Household Up” and discussed readings by authors such as Christopher Lasch, Wendell…
Mobile Butchers, An Oily Bible, and Phytomining
...careers. Frisk points to essays by Jeremy Beer on Lasch and Kelvin Knight on MacIntyre as particularly instructive. “Death in Venice.” Susannah Black describes Carnevale in Venice as the…
Feeling Claustrophobic in the Big Wide Open
...Peterson’s, Petrarch-evoking, 1960 convex power ballad “Tell Laura I Love Her”). Christopher Lasch set as the epigraph to his masterpiece The Minimal Self this quote from William James (d.…
COVID-19 Literature, American Conservatism, and Algorithmic Stories
...is probably not for them. But if that person says, ‘Okay, now show me,’ I’d suggest starting with one of the essays that take aim at the soullessness of…
No 2020 Conference, but Maybe a Local Porch
...book to inspire more summer adventures in the kitchen. Be sure you’re subscribed to Local Culture. The fall issue on Christopher Lasch will be excellent. Let me know if…
On the Front Porch with Ursula Le Guin
...parenthetical listing of the three forms taken by that craving for “power over life” turns out to be a fairly precise taxonomy of the progressive impulse, which as critics…
