Conservative nationalism seems resurgent in our day. But it is often a peculiar kind of placeless nationalism that lacks a rootedness and a love of home. Its shortcomings should point us to the deepest conservative theorist of home, the great Roger S...
The promise and peril of current forms of localism, with Trevor Latimer.
Forget NPR's ridiculous winks at looting: true independence can be found in owning a small shop or company.
Consider that here at FPR we are at least as concerned with cultural issues as with political ones. If we are being honest, many of us are probably more concerned with the former than with the latter.
Our political imaginations have become unmoored from the things we ought to hold most dear.
For Kaplan, when comparing two countries and asking why one has succeeded where the other has failed, what matters most is not national policies but “societal dynamics—the strength of the social glue, the nature of relationships across groups, and the role of social institutions.” These are things that manifest (or fail to manifest) at the local level.
Our first duty isn't the great affairs of nations, but to attend to our own soul and the good of our neighbors.
Welcome to the Decentralism File!This digital collection offers over 100 selections of decentralist thought from many different historic eras, authors, and countries. Together, these pieces exhibit the depth and breadth of decentralist thinking across the political, social and economic spheres of human organization, and across time. As a whole, the curation demonstrates intellectual engagement with … Continued
Americans have become less mobile. Does this signal a nation in decline? Or one that’s finally growing up?
Considering the commitments necessary to a good life
Joey Hiles writes that ironically, isolation is something many Americans have in common. Why do we feel so alone? Tocqueville has answers.
That’s the great cultural task now: to relearn this old language, to keep it from dying out, to nurture it and refine and expand it, to develop new idioms and accents. Holston’s book is part of that project.
Here is a collection of posts from artist Amy Meissner — one of my favorite follows on Instagram — advertising a mending and clothes repair workshop she helped run in Anchorage, Alaska, before the pandemic. They all have the same caption: “Mend a thing.” Here’s something she said about the workshops that has stuck with me: Once
‘The Logic of the Body,’ with Dr. Matthew LaPine
We have been thrown back into our own small worlds, but these are worlds we are free to shape. Within the household we have considerable power over how our lives our lived, what we make, and how we consume.
More than 30 years on, the author revisits his “culture war” thesis and explores remedies for the continuing disintegration of American public life.
Conservatives must not turn localism into an ideology.
April 2022 Newsletter
