Q: What Caused the Culture Wars? A: Globalization and the Pill
If there truly is a difference between how red states and blue states see the family, maybe it starts with how the economy and technology have changed how kids grow up.
Thoughts on Teaching Wendell Berry
Teaching Wendell Berry to students today isn't a thankless task, but the victories are small and far between (which, one might say, is all the best victories always are).
Castles Built on Sand
Even for the average homeowner, ownership all too often is imagined as a way of gaming income flow and consumption over a lifetime, accumulating enough to spend down before one has to become a ward of the welfare state. It is part of consumer society, not a buffer against it.
The Neighborly Arts
The neighborly arts begin at home, extend outward in service to others, and return in the form of gratitude, friendships, and commitments born of practical skills shared and received.
Cameron’s “Big Society” and its Discontents
I can’t seem to get the Orwellian thought of a “National Department of Bigness” out of my head – where everything is kept small and local…except the Department.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Cotton’s Court
Ralph Nader recently spoke at a university in the Heart of Dixie. We tried to build some bridges.
Out of the Fissure, Real Energy: A Response to God’s Economy
Perhaps out of these fissures and the current populist turmoil, someone might be able to craft a new, more coherent, and more promising Christian and Democratic coalition.
Christian Democratic Communities and Teleological States: A Response to God’s Economy
If your religion--or at least your concept of the moral norms of the civil order--lacks a notion of grace, it therefore also lacks a notion of gifts; all it can say is that some people are lucky, not that some people are blessed.
An Arch Needs Many Stones: A Response to “God’s Economy”
But how can such plural sovereignty be realised under the circumstances of this century? Who will guard the guardians, so to speak? How will the stones of the arch fit together?