The editor-in-chief of the FPR website discusses the recent conference in Grand Rapids and his latest book, Words for Conviviality.
Highlights
1:00 Pacific Northwesterner in western PA
8:00 Prospects for localism and trad wives now
11:00 Bilbro’s obsessive bibliography
17:00 Printing press 2.0 and Postman problems
25:30 Frederick Douglass, cancer patient
30:00 Margaret Fuller, proto-podcaster
35:00 Melville’s...
The AEI scholar and author of American Covenant joins John to talk about a document that he believes could unify we the people, again.
Highlights
1:30 Second home
8:15 The national “we”
13:45 A dignified basis for unity
21:00 Changing culture by changing institutions
25:00 Make Congress boring again
29:00 What women want
32:00 Cheese pizza and...
Longtime ghostwriter Nancy French tells her own tale in Ghosted: An American Life. French was raised in rural Tennessee and would later provide the words behind famous talking heads but found her own enchanting voice amid political and personal tumult.
Highlights
1:15 Mud pies for Parisians
6:00 Hillbillies on the run
9:30 Romney/Palin ‘08
11:00 ...
Timothy Carney, an AEI senior fellow and the author of Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be, talks about the village it takes to raise a child and the metaphorical (and sometimes literal) rise of “No Children Allowed” signs.
Highlights
2:30 A lively...
Ashley Colby, founder of the Rizoma Field School, digs up inspiring true stories of resistance and restoration (with references to donkeys, elephants, and our 49th state). Bill Kauffman, author and regular conference closer, weaves Wisconsin professors of the past and the robo-umps of tomorrow into a seamless and side-splitting...
Brian Miller visits the porch to talk about his new book chronicling life on a Tennessee farm.
Highlights
1:30 Bayou Bengal Volunteer farmer
5:45 A monastic text
11:15 Man of letters
14:00 Pesto chango
15:30 Remote control
18:00 Growing pains
23:00 Lamb on the lam
27:15 The rest of the story
Resources
Buy the book
An excerpt at FPR
Brian’s farm...
Adam Smith, a philosopher at the University of Dubuque, counterattacks the disenchanted War on Suffering. FPR President Mark Mitchell goes biblical to bring down a heightened politics of insanity. Brass Spittoon podcaster John Murdock looks at a key architect of religious politics and wonders what might happen if his...
Jeff Bilbro, FPR’s super-beaver EIC and Grove City College professor, looks to ancient mythology to assess modern technology and fiction of the future. Cassandra Nelson of the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture is stuck in the middle, a bit like AI itself. Author, teacher, and...
Eric Miller, biographer of Christopher Lasch and a professor at Geneva College, plus longtime porcher Jason Peters of Hillsdale College address the role of imagination in shaping our shared reality. Matt Stewart, an associate editor of the FPR website, introduces this duo that has impacted his life in important...
Paul Kingsnorth delivered the keynote address at the 2023 FPR conference in Madison, Wisconsin. With help from a diverse band of fellow travelers including Jewish-Canadian songwriter Leonard Cohen, Anglo-Catholic social critic Malcolm Muggeridge, and the prophetic French-Egyptian Sufi Rene Guenon, the unexpectedly Irish Orthodox Kingsnorth takes listeners on a...
