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Tag Archives: localism
The World-Ending Fire
The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry© 2018 Wendell Berry and Paul Kingsnorth360 pages What a way to finish 2022, in reading this superb collection of Wendell Berry’s essays. Berry has published no small amount of essay collections himself, and … Continue reading
A Plain Life
A Plain Life: Walking my Belief © 1998 Scott Savage 224 pages You have to be careful about working in a library. Sometimes books change your life. Scott Savage and his wife were both librarians whose environmental interests put them … Continue reading
Dispatches from the Muckdog Gazette
Dispatches from the Muckdog Gazette: A Mostly Affectionate Account of a Small Town’s Fight to Survive© 2003 Bill Kauffman206 pages Bill Kauffman, as a kid, went places. Starting from a little town in upstate New York, he journeyed as far … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Kauffman, localism, politics, Politics-CivicInterest
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Poetry Night at the Ballpark
Poetry Night at the Ballpark and Other Scenes from an Alternative America © 2015 Bill Kauffman 442 pages “Lift up your hearts, friends – America ain’t dead yet.” For thirty years, Bill Kauffman has been blowing raspberries at or haranguing … Continue reading
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Tagged America, baseball, Bill Kauffman, essays, localism, politics, Politics-CivicInterest
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The Benedict Option
The Benedict Option © 2017 Rod Dreher 269 pages Christendom has fallen; long live Christendom. In The Benedict Option, Rob Dreher argues that the Christian church in the United States is at a crisis point and must now think … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholicism, Christianity, localism, monastics, Orthodoxy, praxis, religion, Rod Dreher
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Out of the Ashes
Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture © 2017 Anthony Esolen 256 pages Some things, like a Roman bridge, can last for millennia through the virtue of their design, the simplicity of their use, and the inherent strength of their … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews, Society and Culture
Tagged Anthony Esolen, Catholicism, Christian humanism, Christianity, education, localism, marriage and family, Of Boys and Men, participation, politics, Politics-CivicInterest, sacramental living, social criticism, Society and Culture
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Bye Bye Miss American Empire
Bye Bye Miss American Empire: Neighborhood Patriots, Backcountry Rebels, and Underdog Crusades to Redraw America’s Political Map© 2010 Bill Kauffman You say you want a devolution? \ Far beyond the city across the river, this country is pregnant with happy … Continue reading
America First
America First: Its History, Culture, and Politics© 1995 Bill Kauffman296 pages For slightly over a year prior to the attack at Pearl Harbor, there existed a civic organization of nearly a million people called the America First Committee. It dedicated … Continue reading
Big Box Swindle
Big Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America’s Independent Businesses© 2006 Stacy Mitchell336 pages What happened? Where did America go? ..everything’s Wal-Mart all the time, no more mom & pop five and dime.. (Merle Haggard, … Continue reading
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Tagged business, cities, civic activism, Distributism, localism, politics, Politics-CivicInterest
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