Tag: localism
Root, Root, Root for the Home Team
While the nationalization of sports media outlets brings games and analysis to every living room in America, fan culture retains a very distinct regional and local flavor.
Can There be a National Conservatism?
Here’s the irony: a growing number of conservatives realize that it will require the assistance of the State to correct many of the problems that have been created by the State that was motivated by progressive commitments against the more local, parochial, and particular.
Rethinking the Local vs. Global Divide
In Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime, Bruno Latour provides a challenging but potentially hopeful take on why climate denial continues to...
Walking in a Dead Man’s Shoes
A woman in another kind of grief uttered the terrible “should have been.”
On Being Less than We Are
What you miss out on by not making the climb is too great a loss on such a morning as this.
What Wendell Berry’s Brush Teaches Us About Capitalism, Community, and “Inevitability”
The Art of Loading Brush: New Agrarian Writings, the latest collection of writings by Wendell Berry, isn't a perfect book, nor the perfect expression...
And Then Came the Chickens, Part Two: A Dispatch from...
“Bawk-bawk be-gehk!” she cries, and I know just where she’s coming from.
And Then Came The Chickens—After the Bobcat: A Dispatch
Heaven favored me with three successive clement weekends.
On Dreher’s Benedict Option, the Christians and Localists Who Can Live...
Rod Dreher and I aren't close friends, but like many Front Porch Regulars, I've been blessed with the opportunity to associate with and learn...