JEFFERSON COUNTY, KANSAS. In small town America, business owners get to sponsor everything from the high school wrestling team to the "pride committee" chili cook off. One of the events my law practice regularly sponsors is the annual Jefferson...
USAToday has a piece on folks who are simplifying their lives as a response to the economic troubles here.
For those interested in some concrete advice, see this piece on homesteading in Mother Earth News here.
h/t Rachel Blum
First, let me extend my greetings to the readers of the Front Porch Republic. I have been following conversations here at FPR since it launched earlier this year and find myself resonating with its mission. So needless...
Devon, PA. I have contended that the two most vocal sources of outrage at Pope Benedict XVI's remark about the deleterious role of condoms in Africa did not in fact have the African AIDS pandemic much on their mind. ...
FPR readers should certainly check out the American Conservative today. First, they have a new essay up by Dermot Quinn on the relationship of Wilhelm Ropke's ideas to the current economic crisis. And Sean Scallon's piece on Jimmy Carter's...
Claremont, CA - I don't know how to tie a tie. But now I know that I am not alone.
Do this: On Google, type "how to" - or even just "how" - into the search window. Google will tell...
Russell Arben Fox remembers well his thrifty grandmother, and so do I, and so do you, perhaps. For the rest of the nation there is Amy Dacyczyn of Leeds, Maine, the founder, publisher, and primary author of The Tightwad...
A couple of young, progressive liberals (Kevin Mattson and Ezra Klein) note what too many mainstream American politicians and pundits have conveniently forgotten: that President Jimmy Carter's "malaise" speech--his thoughtful, brave, reflective call to America to embrace (or rather...
RINGOES, NJ. March Madness is finally over. And for the first time in years, I actively participated in the madness. For most of our married life, my wife and I have shunned television. But we are renting a house...
I recently received a handsome, newly published copy of the book America Through European Eyes, published by Penn State University Press and edited by Jeffrey Isaac and Aurelian Craiutu. Chesterton built (if intellectually) a sizeable portion of this...