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  • November 20, 2014
    The ever-reliable, always-interesting Bill Schambra has a very good piece over at NPQ on the difficulties of caring for one's…
  • November 19, 2014
    Gracy Olmstead attended the FPR conference in Louisville and gives this fine description of the conference and the localist ideals…
  • November 19, 2014
    At evening when the lamp is lit, Around the fire my parents sit; They sit at home and talk and…
  • November 17, 2014
    Wherein my travel plans interfere with my duties.
  • November 14, 2014
    In an endnote to The Idea of a Christian Society, T.S. Eliot makes this categorical claim: Conservatism is too often…
  • November 13, 2014
    This piece counts the cost of U.S. military action against ISIS. In other news, Wal-Mart is set to make Black…
  • November 12, 2014
    “If man…is indefinable, it is because at first he is nothing. Only afterward will he be something, and he will…
  • November 7, 2014
    Today begins the annual pig slaughter at my home. It is always a momentous occasion. Of its many unforgettable moments…
  • November 2, 2014
    What the populist campaign of Zephyr Teachout presages (maybe).
  • October 29, 2014
    “Imitations practiced from youth become part of nature and settle into habits of gesture, voice, and thought.” Plato, Republic III…
  • October 27, 2014
    Most of us who post here are, to say the least, neither conversant with nor adept at social media. I…
  • October 23, 2014
    This article bemoans the farm subsidiary structure in the US and wishes for more diversity in agriculture. Meanwhile, this piece notes…