Tag: literature

In Praise of Communitarian-not Corporate-Baseball

As Kauffman tells Bardenwerper, perhaps being cut loose from MLB will turn out to be a blessing.

Between Spirituality and Literature

The resulting work is by turns wise and questioning, witty and candid, self-effacing and impassioned.

Subservience to Progressive Little Notions

If beauty can save the world, maybe it can even save the art world.

Writing Exile and Reading Homeward

Here, then, is my homecoming of the imagination: to hold the past bright in memory, and to love also the saplings and the weeds of my exile.

Gárces’s Travels: A Review of Jeremy Beer’s Beyond the Devil’s Road

Much might be said about the neglect of the history of the American Southwest

Marking the Year on Two Calendars: An Interview with Matthew Miller

Knowledge is a path to love, and so I’m bound to say that the book did change my affection for the place.

Away From Politics with Kathleen Raine (Then Back Again)

Are we capable of that on a scale that will regenerate our political life? Perhaps not, at least for now, but we can take heart from the knowledge that, over the long course of human events, peoples have built cities that embodied high civic ends.

Mary Shelley’s Grief

Mary writes with gentle pathos, patience, and calm—traits common to those who have endured terrible loss. Her observations on life’s many ironies offer catharsis for author and reader alike.

Hope Out of Despair: A Review of Byung-Chul Han’s The Spirit...

But I suspect that this stirring book will strike a chord with many readers of Front Porch Republic.

Jordan Peterson: From America’s Dad to America’s Guru

Christianity spread because people actually believed Jesus was their Lord and Savior. They believed in miracles not metaphors.