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Community Greening in The Lord of the Rings: Samwise Gamgee and the Power of Local Care
J. R. R. Tolkien imagined a society characterized by people who care for one another and their natural spaces, cultivating human and ecological flourishing in their communities.
Bridging the Gap between Bitter Conservatives and Glib Liberals
The day will come when parents in the poorest communities will be able to say that they cannot imagine a better place to raise their children than in their neighborhoods…
Scenes of Arrival, Stories of Home
Here are three novels about three places in the world. Each conveys not just a perfunctory setting but a web of topography, livelihoods, pastimes, and lore. And in each the…
The Lessor of Two Evils: How Fracking Damaged the Landscape and Entrenched Cultural Divides In Pennsylvania Communities
There aren’t easy answers to the problems fracking creates, and, like many industries, fracking generates losers and winners. But by spending time up close with the issues, Jerolmack models a…
Stories That Bind Us
Despite differences that are exacerbated at the national level, we often share significantly more in common with our “enemy” when we interact with them at human scales.
Where Are Conservatives?
When enough people recognize their emasculated state and demand change through the political process, then authority and resources will be given back to the local community so that people can…
“You Ever Get Back There Any More?”
Down on the Square (as we East Texas natives refer to the downtown in Henderson, pop. 11,000), I make a visit to the backroom of the Strong-Hurt Pharmacy, site for…
Lawler on Entitlement Reform
Devon, PA. Everyone seems to be in on, and to understand, the debate between FPR and Peter Lawler's "postmodern conservatism" except me. I have made a few jokes and gestures…
On the Road Again
. . . we rediscovered the meaning of Place. Limits. Liberty.