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- We live in a world characterized by a flattened culture and increasingly meaningless freedoms. Little regard is paid to the necessity for those overlapping local and regional groups, communities, and associations that provide a matrix for human flourishing. We’re in a bad way, and the spokesmen and spokeswomen of both our Left and our Right are, for the most part, seriously misguided in their attempts to provide diagnoses, let alone solutions.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Decision 2012: Rootin’ For
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November 05, 2012 02:57PM - Considering the Alternatives:
The Editors on the Election
November 05, 2012 10:54AM - The View from Your Front Porch
November 02, 2012 09:15AM - Of Bees and Boys
November 01, 2012 06:37AM - What’s Paleo About
Evangelicalism?
October 31, 2012 01:00AM
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Decision 2012: Rootin’ For ________
The folks at Conservative Heritage Times have kindly asked me to participate in a virtual symposium — something similar to those being held by the FPR editors and the American Conservative writers.Â
Anyone curious about my pick for the U.S. presidency may click here.
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Considering the Alternatives: The Editors on the Election
The View from Your Front Porch
Of Bees and Boys
What’s Paleo About Evangelicalism?
Limits and Conscientious Consumption
What Women Voters Want: Addendum
Kate has captured nicely a kind of sexual nihilism regnant in contemporary feminism. It has now become campaign fodder:
Were this my daughter I would be mortified. This is bad at so many levels, but one of them surely is how it posits the relationship between voters and the… Read full post »
What Women Voters Want
Louisville,
Kentucky. Â I have been trying to forget
something I read two months ago, but some things cannot be buried
before they are purged.
Journalist Hanna Rosin is on book tour now promoting the thesis that we’re about to experience the “end of men,†and though the definitivenes… Read full post »
School Consolidation and Slow Democracy
The Wrong Side of History
Berwyn, PA. Cardinal George offers us the strong words — not of oracular prophecy, but shrewd wisdom. A few passages:
Communism imposed a total way of life based upon the belief that God does not exist. Secularism is communism’s better-scrubbed bedfellow. A small irony of history cropped
… Read full post »
Slow Democracy
Why Urban Christians Need Wendell Berry
At Christianity Today, Jake Meador argues that Wendell Berry has something important to teach urban Christians.
At root, Berry’s Port William is a worshiping community. Indeed, I don’t know another community, fictional or real, that so gives itself to worship. That worship doesn’t a
… Read full post »
Not Hurting Anybody
Finger Foods
Set in the heart of the Burned-Over District, the Finger Lakes region of New York is among the culturally, historically, and culinarily richest parts of the country. Now it has a cookbook worthy of its ghosts and grapes: Finger Lakes Feast (http://fingerlakesfeast.com/) by Kate Harvey and Karl Zinsme… Read full post »
Life Under Compulsion: From Schoolhouse to School Bus
George McGovern, RIP
My 2006 profile/interview of the patriot from Mitchell, South Dakota:Â http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/come-home-america-2/.
Related posts:
- “Like Most Satirists I am a Reactionary” Native son and caustically loving biographer of our country Gore Vidal  (http://www.theam … Read full post »
Why the Christian Philosopher and Christian College Need Each Other
Whither the Liberal Arts College? Or, Why Bloom’s Critique Doesn’t Matter.
One sees signs of dètente in the academic
wars that were highlighted by Allan Bloom’s
Closing of the American Mind. At a more reflective level
this can be seen in books such as Stanley
Fish’s Save the World on Your Own
Time, a screed against the politicization of the curriculum
and… Read full post »
Peer Lending and the Problem of Credit
The Passing of Two Great Intellectual Historians
Cast Away
On third parties: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/party-animus/.
Related posts:
- LDS Trip Musings on our Burned-Over District neighbors, the Mormons: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/just-deseret/.…...
- “Like Most Satirists I am a Reactionary” Native so … Read full post »
Lessons on Limits from the Cougar Prophet
Intellectual Historians on Intellectual Conservatism
Boycotting Boycots
David Walbert explains how to avoid hypocrisy.
Last week, walking across campus to the library, I was interrupted (I don’t want to say “accostedâ€) by a woman in her early twenties wearing a Greenpeace t-shirt.
“Are you on your way to teach, or do you have a minute to help save
… Read full post »
Debt-Free Farming
Over at The American Conservative website, Glenn Arbery writes of a farmer who seeks to remain as independent and self-sufficient as possible. But it has not been easy. Nevertheless,
These are the kinds of farmers conservatives ought to celebrate. Not only do they raise excellent beef, but they have
… Read full post »
Kerry Lauerman
Joan Walsh
Salon.com