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A Goodman is Hard to Find
I’m happy to report that New York Review Books has just reprinted Growing Up Absurd (1960), Paul Goodman’s classic plea for the human scale against the postwar corporate and military-industrial…
Historian on the Debate
The blogosphere is filled with opinions on last night's debate between the president and the challenger. The chattering classes has gotten a whole lot larger. Unless you are a historian…
The Banks we Deserve, the Economy we can Sustain
If you didn't catch this panel put on by Marketplace and BBC, it's pretty exciting. It takes the expert panel only about 10 minutes (2:00 to 12:40) to get to…
Thanks to Jason Peters, aka The Bar Jester
Since FPR's inception in March of 2009, Jason Peters has written a weekly column. Without missing a single week, he has, with his inimitable style, regaled FPR readers with his…
Conference Schedule
The conference will be on the campus of Hope College in Holland, MI. Go to the Maas Conference Center on the corner of Tenth and Columbia, on the back side…
FPR Conference Details
There is still time to register for the conference by clicking here. We will also be welcoming walk-up registrants on-site, but if you go that route you'll have to pay…
Don’t It Make You Wanna Go Home Now?
Joe South, RIP: http://youtu.be/8V1JJqNKjVU. "God, how I wanna go home...."
FPR Conference: Register Now
If you have put off registering for the conference but plan to attend, please register if possible. This will give us a better idea of how much food we'll need…
McCarthy on conservatism and the post-Boomer generations
Must-read stuff this morning from Dan McCarthy at the The American Conservative. Dan argues that the Gen X and the Millennial generations are not necessarily more liberal than their Boomer…
Sixth Circuit Rules Even Attorneys Have First Amendment Rights
Cincinnati, Ohio, and New Castle, Kentucky. Late last month the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court judgment and found that the Kentucky Bar Association had violated…
Gird Your Loins: It’s an Election
Holland, MI On Inauguration Day 2009 various organizations at my college held a celebration to mark the inauguration of America’s first African-American president. Large TV screens were set up around…
The FPR conference lineup
Here is the tentative, don't-hold-us-legally-accountable-if-it-ain't-exactly-this-way lineup of speakers for the Front Porch Republic conference on September 15 at Hope College, in Holland, Michigan. We'll let you know if there are…
LDS Trip
Musings on our Burned-Over District neighbors, the Mormons: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/just-deseret/.
“Like Most Satirists I am a Reactionary”
Native son and caustically loving biographer of our country Gore Vidal (http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-last-republican) has died. Don't mourn; read: Burr, Lincoln, Screening History, Homage to Daniel Shays, United States, The Last Empire....
Scotch on the Bruce
Owen Sound, ONT The Bruce Peninsula extends like a claw off Southern Ontario’s main land mass into the Great Lakes basin. Forming a long arc with Manitoulin Island, the Bruce…
FPR Conference Details
Whether or not you've yet registered for the FPR Conference, the following information may be of interest: We will be hosting the conference in the Maas Conference Center on the campus…
Register Now for FPR’s Fall Conference in Holland, MI
Registration is now open for our Second Annual Conference to be held on September 15. This time we will be in Holland, MI on the beautiful campus of Hope College.…
Prisoners Pedal to Produce Power
Meanwhile, an article from Tree Hugger: Brazil's Santa Rita do Sapucaí prison, following the suggestion of a local judge, recently installed electricity-generating stationary bikes as part of a plan to…
Bringing it all Back Home
Reason's Jesse Walker on Benjamin Looker's account of Karl Hess, Milton Kotler, and the power-to-the-neighborhoods movement of the late '60s and early '70s: http://reason.com/blog/2012/07/10/all-power-to-the-neighborhoods.
Clang, Clang Go the Jail Guitar Doors
Today from The American Conservative: www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/rockys-drug-war/
The 10,000 Mile Diet vs. the Locavores
The Atlantic has an on-line piece debating the virtues of the locavore movement. An economist named Pierre Desrochers is promoting his book titled The Locavore's Dilemma: In Praise of the…
An Alternative to Sprawl
According to an article in The New York Times, many Americans are tiring of the lifestyle associated with sprawl and, finally, developers are responding. The age of the McMansion may…
Long Live the Sovereign Republic of West Florida
Porchers will delight in this wonderful story and video featuring our own Rod Dreher.
American Cicero
Michael Federici of Mercyhurst College has posted on this site before, and is certainly a fellow-traveler. Some of you may be wondering why he hasn't posted in a while, and…