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January 26, 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS: CICERONIAN SOCIETY  2012 ANNUAL MEETING AT UVA The Ciceronian Society will be holding its annual meeting at…

January 26, 2012

Well no, not exactly. But as anyone who has ACTUALLY READ ALINSKY KNOWS--in contrast to those who simply parrot his…

January 26, 2012

This is the last audience to which I should announce such a thing but after fumbling an editing gig or…

January 16, 2012

Once again St. Michael Orthodox Church here in Louisville will be hosting the annual Climacus Conference, with this year's event…

January 9, 2012

Brian (no relation to Lefty) Frizzell, Brooklyn's archivist of Americana, sends a link to Matt Morris's Pickin' & Trimmin' http://vimeo.com/31066145, a…

January 4, 2012

This piece from the Sunday Times serves as a reminder that the claims made for technology, progress, and modern conveniences…

January 3, 2012

This is the kind of states' rights I like: Montana’s Supreme Court has issued a stunning rebuke to the U.S.…

January 2, 2012

Here is an article describing how Kansas is leading the way toward a less centralized future. The “revolution in a…

December 29, 2011

Porch readers will be interested in the new online symposium on distributism that is now on ANAMNESIS, A Journal for…

December 28, 2011

In this essay, former Wall Street Investment Banker, Michael Thomas, expresses his frustration and disillusion with our current economic system.…

December 22, 2011

This Christmas--like last Christmas, and the one before that , and the one before that....--hundreds of thousands of our countrymen…

December 17, 2011

In this season of the "holidays," it was announced several days ago that Fairfax County schools would be permitted to…