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Tag Archives: subsidiarity
Forgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet
Forgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet: The Life of Luther Martin© 2008 Bill Kauffman227 pages There isn’t enough whitewash in the world to create a Luther Martin hagiography, Bill Kauffman admits, but in the spirit of lost causes he does his best. Billed … Continue reading
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Tagged American Revolution, Bill Kauffman, biography, subsidiarity, US Constitution
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Local democracy and the State of Jefferson
mp3 One of the local-democracy initiatives Bill Kauffman covered in his Bye, Bye, Miss American Empire was the ‘state of Jefferson’, an area of northern California (and bits of southern Oregon) that want to be free of their respective governments. Today, … Continue reading
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
Saving Congress from Itself
Saving Congress from Itself: Emancipating the States and Empowering their People© 2014 James F. Buckley120 pages According to the latest Gallup poll, only 11% of Americans approve of Congress’ job performance, but virtually every senator or representative who runs for … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews
Tagged civic awareness, law, politics, Politics-CivicInterest, subsidiarity
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Nullification
Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century© 2011 Thomas E. Woods, Jr309 pages In a game of word association, chances are that ‘nullification’ would not meet with flattering replies. Nullification is a word associated with the Civil … Continue reading
Human Scale
Human Scale© 1980 Kirkpatrick Sale500 pages Human Scale is an ambitious assault on big business, big government — the very concept of Bigness. Opening with biology, Kirkpatrick Sale first establishes his basic operating principle: for … Continue reading
The Long Loneliness
The Long Loneliness© 1952 Dorothy Day288 pages (Harper Collins, 2009( Dorothy Day came of age amid the Great War, a child of struggling parents whose labors to make ends meet stayed with her even after they had achieved some … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews, Society and Culture
Tagged agrarianism, anarchism, biography, Catholicism, Christianity, Distributism, labor, memoir, politics, Politics-CivicInterest, poverty, religion, sacramental living, social criticism, Society and Culture, solidarity, subsidiarity
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Look Homeward, America!
Look Homeward, America: In Search of Reactionary Radicals and Front-Porch Anarchists© 2006 Bill Kauffman250 pages “The Little Way. That is what we seek. That — contrary to the ethic of personal parking spaces, of the dollar-sign god — is the … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Bill Kauffman, biography, Catholicism, Classics and Literary, conservative, Distributism, Front Porch Reading, home, libertarianism, literature, localism, organic, politics, Politics-CivicInterest, social history, subsidiarity
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The Liberty Amendments
The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic© 2013 Mark Levin257 pages The United States Constitution was written by men who appreciated their lack of omniscience, and who therefore included in Article V means for amending their handiwork, for fixing through … Continue reading