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Front Porch Republic
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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
- Why I Am Not a Foodie
May 24, 2012 01:39AM - The Mishawaka Cruisers
May 24, 2012 01:01AM - Carbonara Redux En Toto (And,
Mayhap, Another Latinism in
the ’80s Kitchen)
May 23, 2012 12:06AM - Still Too Big to Fail
May 22, 2012 09:18AM - The Hunger Games: Kids Killing
Kids
May 22, 2012 12:06AM
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Why I Am Not a Foodie
 Louisville,
Kentucky. Â Oh, I love a farmers’
market and artisanal bacon as much as the next person. I have a
weedy but earnest vegetable garden, too.
But you would not call me a Foodie. I lack the time, or I lack the dedication, or perhaps I lack the necessary fastidiousness. True… Read full post »
The Mishawaka Cruisers
Carbonara Redux En Toto (And, Mayhap, Another Latinism in the ’80s Kitchen)
Still Too Big to Fail
Harvey Rosenblum, Director of Research for the Dallas Fed, has written an interesting if flawed report on the status of “Too Big to Fail” and the early results of the Dodd-Frank reforms. Some highlights include:
- Since the 1970′s the share of assets of the five largest banks has gro … Read full post »
The Hunger Games: Kids Killing Kids
Thoughts towards a New Religious Right
iGod
Erstwhile Porcher Caleb Stegall has a fine piece in The Humane Vision of Wendell Berry where he discusses the difference between convivial and instrumental uses of technology, the former where technology is made to serve us and the latter where we are made to serve it. From New Jersey comes the stor… Read full post »
Misanthropy or Hymenopteraphilia? E.O. Wilson is Ant(i)-Gracehoper
Uncle Joe Vs. “Too Big to Fail”
Devon, PA. Outside of a few conservative magazines, one seldom heres the opinion that the banking crisis of 2008 was brought about chiefly, not to say exclusively, by the kinds of teratological corporate structure that came into being once the Glass-Stegall act of 1933 was repealed. Chronicles ha… Read full post »
Why I Am Not an Environmentalist
A Sheeshah Pipe for the Porch?
A Congressman for our Time (and Place)
See Rod Dreher’s interview of Congressman Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE), one of the few Congressmen who would feel right at home on the porch. Here’s a snippet, but read it all.
That’s why I think an entrepreneurial model rooted in localism, one that defends family life and defends cultural i
… Read full post »
Richard Weaver on War and Stephen Smith on Liberalism in ANAMNESIS.
FPR readers will be interested in two new essays in ANAMNESIS. The first, by Professor Jay Langdale, is a fascinating examination of Richard Weaver’s analysis of pathologies related to modern war: “’One more chance for the conservative solution’: Richard Weaver’s Traditionalist… Read full post »
Barbecued Ribs and “The Best That Ever Was!”
Getting the Garden Going, One Baby-Step at a Time
Multiply Your Associations and be Free
My review of Robert Nisbet’s classic The Quest for Community was just published at the Online Library of Law and Liberty whose stated purpose is “to bring together high-caliber conservative and classical liberal content on a range of legal, political philosophy, and historical questions.&… Read full post »
Childhood without a Harness
On Being a Worthy Heir of the Agrarian Contrarians
American Enthusiasts At The Gates: A Review of D.G. Hart’s From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin
Review of “The Humane Vision of Wendell Berry”
Published recently in The American Conservative. The book contains essays by such writers as Allan Carlson, Patrick Deneen, Jason Peters, Caleb Stegall, Rod Dreher, and D. G. Hart. Readers of FPR will find much to appreciate. Of course, this might seem like a bit of shameless self-promotion since I�… Read full post »
“Derrida’s Hope and Despair for Globalization”
Many FPR readers will enjoy “Derrida’s Hope and Despair for Globalization” in ANAMNESIS. Derrida is commonly interpreted as an enthusiast of globalization, but here Lee Trepanier elucidates this famed postmodernist’s many qualifications and warnings about cosmopolitanism.
Related… Read full post »
Contraception and Signs of Contradiction: Part II
Contraception and Signs of Contradiction: Part I
A Virtual Community is Not a Community
Stephen Marche has written an interesting piece in the May Atlantic on how facebook is making us lonely. There is a good deal to comment on here, and I’m not particularly inclined to take yet another shot at Facebook, for while it is symptomatic it is an easy target. The pulling apart of… Read full post »
President Obama vs. Walker Percy (and Another Jefferson Lecturer)
Kerry Lauerman
Joan Walsh
Salon.com