Susannah Black

Susannah Black
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Recent Essays

Sources of Order: Rooted Cosmopolitanism and the Origins of City Life (Conclusion)

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Queens, NY The city goes on.  And this phenomenon, of a city continuing even as it is under threat or attacked-- of resiliency in a...

Sources of Order: Rooted Cosmopolitanism and the Origins of City Life (Part III)

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Queens, NY Under ordinary circumstances, with very few exceptions, it is these crews that do the actual work of the city. And under extraordinary...

Sources of Order: Rooted Cosmopolitanism and the Origins of City Life, Part II

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What follows is an expanded version of a talk originally given at the 2016 Front Porch Republic Conference at Notre Dame, where Susannah Black...

Sources of Order: Rooted Cosmopolitanism and the Origins of City Life

Susannah Black -
What follows is an expanded version of a talk originally given at the 2016 Front Porch Republic Conference at Notre Dame, where Susannah Black...

Mr. Maturen Goes to Washington

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  Queens, NY Many of us have, I imagine, indulged over the course of this summer in a certain amount of GOP doomer porn-- reading (and...

Thanksgiving Reflections I

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President Washington, in his original Thanksgiving Day proclamation, insisted it the "duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God," and...

The Little Way of Raymond Chandler

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Or, "Shaken and Stirred: The Cosmopolitan, the City, and the Regime of God" Queens, NY The following essay was presented at FPR's annual conference in Louisville...

The Once and Future Boss: The Possibilities of Tammany Hall

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We are, here in New York, just about ready to cast our votes for the next mayor: even Mike Bloomberg cannot, apparently, actually appoint...

What You Need to Know About Jane Jacobs

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Let us suppose we are confronted with a desperate thing-- say Pimlico... It is not enough for a man to disapprove of Pimlico: in...

Paleoconservatism in Middle Schoolers: a Deeply Flawed Qualitative Study (sample size: n=1)

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The Regents, New York's public school state tests, are coming up in May, and so some of the time I've been spending with S,...

Debating Conservatism: An Old Mistake in The New Inquiry

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Late last week, The New Inquiry published an email exchange between Daniel Larison of The American Conservative and political theorist Corey Robin. Larison...
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