I’ve not yet decided if I’ve succumbed to despair (a sin) or prudence, but I no longer participate in any of the forums at my campus about online education, MOOCs, virtual office hours, assessment, and the countless other distractions from…
Food Stamps and Krazy Glue
by Nicole King . 3 Comments
On a recent Monday morning, an officemate and I were discussing the current financial state—always a cheery subject on a Monday. Mark, a financial planner, said that many believe we are currently in… [more]
Biopolitical Tyranny?
by Patrick J. Deneen . 31 Comments
John Milbank has written a remarkable critique of gay marriage that points to the ways it will ultimately and immeasurably strengthen the modern liberal State. The theologian who launched "Radical Orthodoxy,"… [more]
On Buying Local Food, And Why
by Daniel Payne . 7 Comments
I decided some time ago that I wish to eat as little as possible from the “industrial” food chain; that is to say, I wish to buy little food from factory farms which viciously and needlessly abuse… [more]
In Dr. Mark Mitchell’s recent post on Front Porch Republic…, “W[h]ither the Family Dinner?”, he asks the question, “Are family meals important?” My short answer is: yes. But why is it important? In answering this question, I ask you to recall
The following is an excerpt from from Gar Alperovitz’s What Then Must We Do? (Chelsea Green, 2013) and is reprinted with permission of the publisher. Learn more about the book here.
By the way, and finally (for the moment), there are also many, many worker-owned…
Oh, Porch. Where is thy sting?
If you could boil our global problems down to seven words, they might be these: we don’t see where stuff comes from…. Most of us grew up staring at glowing rectangles without ever seeing a coal-powered turbine. We blithely
Berwyn, PA.… Nobody wants to. Most politicians would rather appeal to platitudes about America as a “nation of immigrants” than confront their responsibility to attend to the common good of their own people. And, depending on the poll you
[Cross-posted to In Medias Res]
That’s a terrible title for this post, I know. But hopefully it’ll make sense, if you actually make it to the end.
First of all, if any reader of this blog has missed out on…
Wherein the Barn Jester, having stepped in it, encounters an unexpected trial.
Hidden Springs Lane…. It is clear that the GOP is in disarray. The recent CPAC conference only served to highlight that the Republicans are bereft of ideas. Railing against “big government” and championing a bellicose foreign policy have proven
Berwyn, PA.… In his Degrees of Knowledge, Jacques Maritain argues that one central fault of the modern mind has been its propensity to think of mathematics rather than metaphysics as first philosophy. If we take number for the foundation of
