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My Victorian NightmareMy Victorian NightmareEp. 53 - The Exquisite Grief of Mary ShelleyOn this week’s episode of My Victorian Nightmare, Genevieve will discuss the life of Mary Shelley. The mother of science fiction. The mother of gothic horror. We will discuss her tragic life, her poetic romance, her monster, and the ways she spun the most unimaginable grief, like a silken web, into a masterpiece. References for today’s episode: https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2024/12/mary-shelleys-grief/#:~:text=The%20summer%20of%201816%20is%20no%20summer,take%20up%20residence%20in%20a%20nearby%20cottage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley https://www.bustle.com/p/frankenstein-author-mary-shelley-was-goth-before-it-was-cool-these-15-sur...2025-07-2850 minThe Brass SpittoonThe Brass SpittoonMarvin Olasky on the Press, Presidents, and PivotsThe longtime editor-in-chief of World magazine discusses the Zenger Prize, his new gig at Christianity Today, the temptations of conservative politics (compassionate or otherwise), and his memoir Pivot Points.    Highlights 1:00       Aspiring galactic editor and globe trotter 5:45       Street level reporting v. suite level pontification 15:15    BREAKING:  Flatwater Free Press on the Zenger Prize long list       18:00    Welcome to the jungle . . . and Phoenix 25:00    Adventure is out there! 30:00    A young communist hears Jesus in Russian 34:00    Leaving World for purple pastures 41:00    Character counts, on the diamond and in the Oval 49:00    Covering Ma...2025-04-121h 08Confessions of a MelomaniacConfessions of a MelomaniacThe Closing of the American Mind (revisited)Thomas Maier, Sam Davis, and Aharon Dubovin revisit an episode from season 1 on the controversial book 'The Closing of the American Mind' by Alan Bloom. They discuss raising children in a highly degenerate world of gang music and the evils of the internet. They also discuss the merits of political control over the "pursuit of happiness". Article: Schaff, Jon D. “I Can Hear Music.” Front Porch Republic, 21 July 2024, www.frontporchrepublic.com/2024/07/i-can-hear-music/  2024-12-211h 19The Brass SpittoonThe Brass SpittoonTri Robinson Looks Back in ThanksAfter a life of physical and spiritual adventure, an innovative homesteading teacher and pastor turns green with gratitude. Highlights 1:00       California to Idaho (before everybody was doing it) 12:00    The plane, the plane! 19:00    Picture pages, picture pages 26:00    Raising the dead with his students (and Robert Redford) 37:00    Finding Jesus in the mountains 45:15    Turning green in the pulpit 57:00    Timber Butte homecoming 61:00    Looking for the real thing 66:00    Thanks and love Resources Tri's homestead website and buy the book Full Cowboy & Preacher film2024-12-171h 11Doomer OptimismDoomer OptimismDO 238 - 20th Century German Philosophy with Casey Spinks and AshleyIn this episode, Casey Spinks, editor at Front Porch Republic, and Ashley discuss philosophy, theology, and the challenges in contemplative and active lives. Casey Spinks is a contributing editor for Front Porch Republic. He lives with his family in Waco, Texas, where he teaches theology and philosophy at Baylor University. https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/author/caseyspinks/2024-10-291h 17The Brass SpittoonThe Brass SpittoonJeff Bilbro's Convivial QuestThe editor-in-chief of the FPR website discusses the recent conference in Grand Rapids and his latest book, Words for Conviviality.  Highlights 1:00       Pacific Northwesterner in western PA 8:00       Prospects for localism and trad wives now 11:00    Bilbro’s obsessive bibliography 17:00    Printing press 2.0 and Postman problems 25:30    Frederick Douglass, cancer patient 30:00    Margaret Fuller, proto-podcaster 35:00    Melville’s pilgrimage and Jeff’s truck stop oats 40:00    A convivial reading Resources Jeff's bio and buy the book (and some more books) FPR’s excerpt (suitable for nailing on church doors)2024-10-2143 minThe Brass SpittoonThe Brass SpittoonYuval Levin on Our ConstitutionThe AEI scholar and author of American Covenant joins John to talk about a document that he believes could unify we the people, again.  Highlights 1:30       Second home 8:15       The national “we” 13:45    A dignified basis for unity 21:00    Changing culture by changing institutions 25:00    Make Congress boring again 29:00    What women want 32:00    Cheese pizza and Tip O’Neill 37:00    Think Tank U 41:00    A hunger for scallops and solidarity 47:00    Plausible deniability? 50:00    A hopeful Constitution Day Resources Yuval's bio and buy the book FPR’s review Ya...2024-09-1753 minThe Regeneration PodcastThe Regeneration PodcastSeeking the Real with Jason PetersLinks to Michael's Patreon and Substack: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=98486320 https://substack.com/@druidstaresback   Front Porch Republic Books:  https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/fpr-books/ The Culinary Plagiarist:  https://wipfandstock.com/9781532689802/the-culinary-plagiarist/ 2024-06-071h 28The Brass SpittoonThe Brass SpittoonGhost Stories with Nancy FrenchLongtime ghostwriter Nancy French tells her own tale in the Ghosted:  An American Life.  French was raised in rural Tennessee and would later provide the words behind famous talking heads but found her own enchanting voice amid political and personal tumult.    Highlights 1:15                Mud pies for Parisians 6:00                Hillbillies on the run 9:30                Romney/Palin ‘08 11:00              Prison break with the Kardashians 13:30              Pulling political punches 20:00              Google University School of Journalism 27:30              French Holy Ghost revival 31:30              Befriending a critic 38:00              Laker girl 39:30              Trusting God with cancer 42:00              Back on the case Resources Nancy’s website and buy the book John’s review Wendell 2024-05-0644 minThe Brass SpittoonThe Brass SpittoonFamily Time with Timothy CarneyTimothy Carney, an AEI senior fellow and the author of Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be, talks about the village it takes to raise a child and the metaphorical (and sometimes literal) rise of “No Children Allowed” signs. Highlights 2:30       A lively home and coffee shop 4:00       Trumpy Christians? 7:15       Find a secular van fam, win a free book! 16:30    Was Hillary right? 22:15    Trickling down to Fishtown? 29:30    House plans, town plans 36:30    Work from home 43:45    Childless for the planet or better by the trillion2024-03-261h 01Daily LineDaily LineEp. 76 - AI, dezinformácie a manuálne zručnostihttps://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2024/01/ai-misinformation-and-manual-arts-training/2024-02-0402 minThe Brass SpittoonThe Brass SpittoonLiving Outside the MachineAshley Colby, founder of the Rizoma Field School, digs up inspiring true stories of resistance and restoration (with references to donkeys, elephants, and our 49th state).   Bill Kauffman, author and regular conference closer, weaves Wisconsin professors of the past and the robo-umps of tomorrow into a seamless and side-splitting localist garment.  Rory Groves introduces the duo and ponders a porch free of PhDs.       Highlights 1:30       Rory Groves, unlikely agrarian Ashley Colby:  “Doomer Optimism: Life Adjacent to the Machine” 5:30       Adjacent, whether we like it or not 7:45       Donkey driving, mastodon ranching, hospitality boot cam...2024-01-2944 minThe Brass SpittoonThe Brass SpittoonBrian Miller on Kayaking with LambsBrian Miller visits the porch to talk about his new book chronicling life on a Tennessee farm. Highlights 1:30       Bayou Bengal Volunteer farmer 5:45       A monastic text 11:15    Man of letters 14:00    Pesto chango 15:30    Remote control 18:00    Growing pains 23:00    Lamb on the lam 27:15    The rest of the story Resources Buy the book An excerpt at FPR Brian’s farm and blog Paul Harvey’s “So God Made a Farmer” 2024-01-2230 minThe Brass SpittoonThe Brass SpittoonHumane PoliticsAdam Smith, a philosopher at the University of Dubuque, counterattacks the disenchanted War on Suffering.  FPR President Mark Mitchell goes biblical to bring down a heightened politics of insanity.  Brass Spittoon podcaster John Murdock looks at a key architect of religious politics and wonders what might happen if his blueprints were followed.  Gerald Ford groupie and FPR perfect attendance award winner Jeff Polet opens by reflecting on political goats.       Highlights Jeff Polet:  Introduction 1:30       Statistical sirens 3:00       Humane oxymorons 5:15       Dirty politics 6:15       Animal farm 9:45       Oh yeah, the intros! Adam Smith: “The Po...2024-01-171h 13Voice Of GO(r)DVoice Of GO(r)DPlumbing The Home and Plumbing The Soul with Nathan Marshall, The Blue ScholarVoice Of GO(r)D is very happy to bring you Mr Nathan Marshall, of The Blue Scholar Substack. Nathan is a Father, Husband, Writer, Plumber, and faithful servant of The Lord, and joins the show to discuss the nexus of Meaning, Faith, and Work. We go over his own life story, how he got into plumbing, his faith, and how he got into synthesizing it all in his excellent writings. Nathan even gives us some historical overview of the development of sewage and plumbing systems, I'm sure the nerds will love it. 2024-01-101h 49The Brass SpittoonThe Brass SpittoonHuman Responses to TechnologyJeff Bilbro, FPR’s super-beaver EIC and Grove City College professor, looks to ancient mythology to assess modern technology and fiction of the future.  Cassandra Nelson of the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture is stuck in the middle, a bit like AI itself.  Author, teacher, and mother Tessa Carman looks for life in abundance in Minnesota and Maryland.  Writer and Berry Center board member Kate Dalton Boyer introduces the speakers.   Highlights 1:00       Kate kicks things off Jeff Bilbro:  “Where Now Are Wayland’s Bones?” 3:30       Kingsnorth and Norse smith explained2024-01-081h 08The Brass SpittoonThe Brass SpittoonImagining Life Beyond the Machine: Eric Miller and Jason PetersEric Miller, biographer of Christopher Lasch and a professor at Geneva College, plus longtime porcher Jason Peters of Hillsdale College address the role of imagination in shaping our shared reality.  Matt Stewart, an associate editor of the FPR website, introduces this duo that has impacted his life in important ways.   Highlights 1:00       Matt Stewart, teacher’s pet/pest and herb connoisseur Eric Miller:  “The Instructed Imagination”  6:00       Hannah Coulter v. Mark Heard 13:30    Collegiate conscience and imagination 16:00    Augustine’s commonweal 20:00    O’Connor’s name calling 23:00    Walker and Wendell looking...2024-01-0657 minThe Brass SpittoonThe Brass SpittoonPaul Kingsnorth: Blizzard of the WorldPaul Kingsnorth delivered the keynote address at the 2023 FPR conference in Madison, Wisconsin.  With help from a diverse band of fellow travelers including Jewish-Canadian songwriter Leonard Cohen, Anglo-Catholic social critic Malcolm Muggeridge, and the prophetic French-Egyptian Sufi Rene Guenon, the unexpectedly Irish Orthodox Kingsnorth takes listeners on a tour of techno-mirages, holy wells, and green deserts in a search for culture-seeding saints.      Highlights 2:00       Jeff introduces Paul 3:30       Paul introduces his thrift shop shirt 7:30       The disquiet of machine things 12:30    Surface debates and the depths beneath 19:00    Mumford and some on the suicide of the W...2023-11-121h 03The Brass SpittoonThe Brass SpittoonPaul Kingsnorth’s Opening PrayerPaul Kingsnorth, the keynote speaker at the 2023 FPR conference in Madison, Wisconsin, begins things with a bonus talk on the power of prayer in a desecrated western world.      Highlights  1:15 Mark Mitchell’s welcome  4:00 Paul flies in  5:30 A long list of labels  7:30 Roots and power  8:15 My neighbor Vinny (and his dying cousins)  12:30 Centering work  14:00 Citizen culture  19:00 Two trinities  23:00 Our like will not be here again  24:30 Candles to blow  37:30 The still point in the turning world  30...2023-11-1134 minThe Regeneration PodcastThe Regeneration PodcastPost-Liberalism and the Future of Religion with Adam SmithAdam joined us about a half-hour in and this conversation has lots of everything. Check out Adam's reviews and articles at Front Porch Republic here: https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/author/asmith/ Links to Michael's Patreon and Substack: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=98486320 https://substack.com/@druidstaresback 2023-10-141h 42The Brass SpittoonThe Brass SpittoonBill Kauffman in ConversationBill Kauffman, author of multiple books including Poetry Night at the Ballpark and long the closing speaker at FPR conferences, talks about the origins of Front Porch Republic and his unique life of letters.    Host:     John Murdock Guest:  Bill Kauffman   Highlights 1:30      Defending the homeland 2:30      The Closer 7:45      Muckdog memories 12:15    Perfectly sized 15:00    First Man and Senate staffer 18:00    Morning drinks and Mormon journeys 22:15    Life on the fringe 24:00    Not a murderer 26:15    Jimmie Foxx found dead 29:30    Paying the bills 31:30    A Barber i...2023-09-2538 minVoice Of GO(r)DVoice Of GO(r)DOn Distributism with Michael Thomas of SharonVoice Of GO(r)D is very happy to bring you Mr Michael Thomas of Sharon, to discuss the idea of Distributism, a political and economic program influenced by Catholic Social teaching, the RERUM NOVARUM, an encyclical by Pope Leo XIII, and the ideas of such early 20th century thinkers as G.K. Chesterton and Hillaire Belloc. Mr. Sharon describes Distributism thusly - "A good social order is one which guarantees the rights of property to the widest amount of people, and that helps them turn that property productive...2023-09-041h 47Political PhilosophyPolitical PhilosophyWhat’s Happened to the Liberating Arts? An Interview with Jeffrey Bilbro of the Front Porch Republic Join our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/maurinacademy Front Porch Republic: https://www.frontporchrepublic.com The book: https://www.plough.com/en/topics/community/education/liberating-arts Why study the Liberal Arts and Sciences even if you aren’t in college, or in college but studying something else? Laurie has a conversation with the Editor in Chief of The Front Porch Republic and an Associate Professor of English at Grove City College about a book that he has co-edited, entitled The Liberating Arts: Why We Need Liberal Arts Education. Follow the Maurin Ac...2023-08-191h 07The Regeneration PodcastThe Regeneration PodcastMedicalization and Re-Enchantment with Adam SmithA conversation on world-turned-hospital and possibilities for re-enchantment with Professor Adam Smith. Check out his blog: https://newpandemonium.substack.com/ And find more of his articles at Front Porch Republic (frontporchrepublic.com) 2023-04-291h 19New HumanistsNew HumanistsThe Danger of Plato | Episode XLVSend us a textDoes Plato, and philosophy more generally, belong in schools? In a lecture, professor and Davenant Institute VP Colin Redemer suggests that Plato is too dangerous to be allowed into classical schools. Jonathan and Ryan take a look at this lecture and at the response it received, focusing on esoteric writing, reason versus revelation, and the Platonic-Christian-American synthesis.The Davenant Institute's Reforming Classical Education: https://davenantinstitute.org/reforming-classical-educationAustin Hoffman's Awkward Family Dinner: A Review of Reforming Classical Education: https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2023/02/awkward-family-dinner-a-review-of-reforming-classical-education/2023-04-1549 minThe Regeneration PodcastThe Regeneration PodcastDavid Cayley on Simone Weil and the Future of ReligionSimone Weil had many penetrating insights which might help us understand our "religious" situation and feel our way forward. Broadcaster, author and scholar David Cayley joins us for this discussion. Material discussed includes: https://www.davidcayley.com/podcasts/... https://druidstaresback.substack.com/ https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/20... 2023-04-151h 31The Brass SpittoonThe Brass SpittoonAfter Virtual: Civic LifeThe After Virtual conference podcast series closes with a focus on civics and cemeteries.  Mark Mitchell, author of Plutocratic Socialism, talks on, well, plutocrats and socialism (plus the importance of property ownership to maintaining the republic).  Rachel Ferguson, author of Black Liberation Through the Marketplace, highlights the historic role of roads in undermining minority communities and current efforts at neighborhood stabilization.  Regular conference closer Bill Kauffman regales the crowd with tales from the crypts of Batavia.  Speakers:  Mark Mitchell, Rachel Ferguson, and Bill Kauffman  Highlights  2:30 Mark Mitchell — Why Property Matters  3:15 FPR, born in ap...2023-02-021h 14The Brass SpittoonThe Brass SpittoonAfter Virtual: Health The penultimate session from the FPR conference After Virtual:  The Art of Recovering Lost Goods addresses health.  Philosopher Adam Smith from the University of Dubuque and medical doctor Brian Volck, author of Attending Others: A Doctor’s Education in Bodies and Words, take on the medical/industrial complex (with assists from Alasdair MacIntyre and Wendell Berry).  Speakers:  Adam Smith and Brian Volck  Highlights  2:15 Adam Smith—Medicine After Virtue  3:15 Medicine in the New Dark Ages   5:00 Out of practice  2023-01-121h 06The Brass SpittoonThe Brass SpittoonAfter Virtual: Chris ArnadeChris Arnade, the keynote speaker at the After Virtual conference, has traded global finance for skid row photography.  Chris discusses his journey from Wall Street board rooms to a booth at McDonald’s and the associated rejection of careerism and self-definition.  Speaker:  Chris Arnade—An Address in the Universe of Meaning  Highlights  3:00 Prayer time around the world  6:45 The liberal emancipation project (of destruction)  10:30 Transcendent values first seen in a traffic jam  16:00 “Everything we believed was wrong”  27:00 Place and the giant sucking sound of NAFTA  30:00 Family tie...2022-12-2040 minThe Brass SpittoonThe Brass SpittoonAfter Virtual: EducationThe second episode from the FPR conference After Virtual: The Art of Recovering Lost Goods looks at education.  Jeff Polet discusses walking away from Hope.  Angel Adams Parham talks about the elementary power of a rapping Homer.  Jason Peters goes back to the future of the educational machine.  Speakers:  Jeff Polet, Angel Adams Parham, and Jason Peters  Highlights  1:15 Jeff Polet—Why I Left the Academy  2:00 The news from Nineveh   5:30 Signs of declines  8:30 Searching for a pony   16:30 Jargon, gymnasts, adjudications, and generals   23:15 Gerald Ford comes calling  ...2022-11-301h 13The Brass SpittoonThe Brass SpittoonAfter Virtual: The ChurchFor the first of our episodes from September’s FPR conference After Virtual:  The Art of Recovering Lost Goods, we go to church.  Carl Trueman, Gregory Hogg, and Charlie Cotherman share thoughts on technology and embodied worship in a time of pandemic.   Speakers:  Carl Trueman, Gregory Hogg, and Charlie Cotherman  Highlights  1:15 Carl Trueman  3:00 Is it all Protestantism’s fault?  4:00 How to take over an empire  6:15 Reformations and technology  11:00 Overlooked revolutionary sausages   13:45 Our age of social acceleration   16:45 A challenge to holy time  19:00 A challe...2022-11-1451 minThe Brass SpittoonThe Brass SpittoonMark Mitchell on Plutocratic SocialismMark Mitchell, author of Plutocratic Socialism:  The Future of Private Property and the Fate of the Middle Class and President of Front Porch Republic, joins the podcast.  Mitchell and Murdock discuss the origins of FPR and the importance of widely-held productive private property in an era when the super rich and socialists have formed an odd partnership.        Host:  John Murdock  Guest: Mark Mitchell  Highlights  1:30 Mark Mitchell, happy at home chopping wood  5:00 FPR, the early days  9:00 How not to change the world   12:00 The messy remainder of reality  ...2022-10-271h 08The Brass SpittoonThe Brass SpittoonMatt Stewart on Wallace StegnerMatthew Stewart, author of The Most Beautiful Place on Earth:  Wallace Stegner in California, sits down (literally) with host John Murdock to discuss Stegner’s complicated relationship with the American West.  A mobile youth left Stegner yearning for deeper roots.  In the 1940s, he landed in the hills surrounding San Francisco Bay, an area soon set for expansive growth.  Stegner’s interplay with the region and his own personal history led to the Pulitzer Prize winning Angle of Repose, a National Book Award for The Spectator Bird, and his masterful final work Crossing to Safety.  Stewart, who received his Ph.D. in...2022-08-2339 minThe Brass SpittoonThe Brass SpittoonKatharine Hayhoe Talks Climate ChangeKatharine Hayhoe is a professor at Texas Tech and the Chief Scientist for The Nature Conservancy. Her most recent book is Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World. Dr. Hayhoe, a Christian, swings by the Porch to discuss faith and science; effective communication on controversial topics; and the role of disinformation in our discussions about global warming. She also shares on her personal encounters with President Barak Obama and Speaker Newt Gingrich, plus gives her opinion on the East Anglia email disclosure and its impact on climate scientists. A shorter written ve...2022-07-0157 minThe Brass SpittoonThe Brass SpittoonChuck Marohn on the Human Errors of Traffic EngineeringChuck Marohn, the founder of Strong Towns and author of Confessions of a Recovering Engineer, discusses streets, roads, “stroads,” and the perils of the American traffic system.  A trained engineer himself, Marohn once imbibed the discipline’s dominant dogmas.  Today, he advocates for cities and towns where slower moving cars can get us where we want to go faster.   Host:  John Murdock Guest:  Charles “Chuck” Marohn   Highlights  1:15      A boy from Brainerd 3:45       Strong Towns explained 6:30       What’s an engineer good for? 8:45       Breaking through with talking bears 13:15  ...2022-05-1051 minThe Brass SpittoonThe Brass SpittoonPoetry and Politics with A.M. JusterMichael J. Astrue has earned degrees from Yale and Harvard. He had a long and distinguished legal career and held several government positions as well as leadership posts in biotech companies. From 2007-2013, he served as the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration.  A.M. Juster has published something like ten books of original and translated poetry and has served as the poetry editor at First Things and now one of my favorite journals, Plough Quarterly.  These two men might sound pretty different, but they are in fact the same person. Over the co...2021-11-231h 01The Brass SpittoonThe Brass SpittoonWill Hoyt‘s Ohio River Journey to the Middle AgesHost:  John Murdock Guest:  Will Hoyt Will Hoyt, author of The Seven Ranges, discusses his journey along the Ohio River into the physical, historical and philosophical interior of the strip-mined region where he lives.  In the book, Hoyt transforms the area’s colorful past into a lament over the loss of an “integrative center” last seen in feudal Europe.  Well read and well spoken, this carpenter joins everything from surveying techniques to Jimmy the Greek into a compelling narrative of despair and hope. Highlights 2:15   Unhoused Hoyt, Unhoused Ohio 7:00   This book brought t...2021-11-0254 minThe Brass SpittoonThe Brass SpittoonJoseph Loconte on War, Friendship, and ImaginationGuest Host:  Jeff Bilbro Guest:  Joe Loconte Front Porch Republic editor Jeff Bilbro sits down with Joe Loconte of The King’s College for a spirited discussion of the book-turned-film A Hobbit, A Wardrobe, and a Great War.  Bonded by war and steeled by friendship, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R Tolkien produced works of fantasy that have guided us back to reality.       Highlights 1:30    Loconte’s Italian immigrant family 4:00    Bleak poet learns to love goodness 7:45    Myth, not just for escapism anymore 9:30    Joe finds Frodo in his 40s 11:30...2021-09-2339 minVintage AmericanaVintage AmericanaEp 25: AttenuationThis week's episode is a protracted discussion of how environment influences life, and the value of cultures - in yogurt and in life.If you would like more reading on the topic, I can recommend a few articles:Grace Olmsteadhttps://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2021/04/grace-olmstead-on-uprooted-place-idaho-and-prairie-lupines/Preserving Local memory:https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2010/06/preserving-local-memory/Wanting to preserve your culture is not a bad thinghttps://www.nationalreview.com/2021/08/wanting-to-preserve-your-culture-is-not-a-bad-thing/Visit the website:www.vintageamericanapodcast.comVisit the blog:www.brambleberrymeadow.com2021-08-1432 minCross WordCross WordInformed or being formed? Reading the News SanelySend us a textIs staying informed all the time, healthy or sane for an individual or a community?.  Join in a great conversation with  Dr Jefferey Bilbro, editor in Chief of the The Front Porch Republic, about his excellent book Reading the Times A Literary and Theological Inquiry into the News., published by Inter Varsity Press   Dr Bilbro examines the question of how staying informed shapes us both spiritual and communally.   He offers advice on how to counteract common ills tied to the poison of media obses...2021-07-1525 minThe Brass SpittoonThe Brass SpittoonDavid Cayley on Illich and InstitutionsCanadian radio broadcaster David Cayley pulls up a chair to discuss Ivan Illich, a renegade priest and professor who argued against schools, missionaries, and modern medicine. Cayley, author of Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey, walks listeners through Illich’s thought and its applications to current tests like the pandemic. Guest Host: Michael Sauter Highlights 0:30 Murdock asks, “Storied thinker or Tolstoy story?” 2:15 David Cayley, a man of Ideas 3:00 Sauter conversation with Cayley begins 4:00 Cayley on cassette 8:00 Corruption of the best is the worst, the West in a nuts...2021-07-0537 minVintage AmericanaVintage AmericanaEp 18 - Hello, Neighbor 2.0! - Interview with Roger JordanRoger's Blog: Michigan Marginaliahttps://michiganmarginalia.wordpress.com/Resources on Localism:The Front Porch Republic - Online articles, a podcast, books and a quarterly journal:https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/The Brookings Institute, mentioned by Roger:https://www.brookings.edu/And, while urban environments are not my primary focus, they can benefit from Localism, too:https://www.strongtowns.org/Access to most of the Essays in the Localism book published by the American Enterprise Institute:https://www.aei.org/special-features/localism-in-america/2021-06-2549 minThe Brass SpittoonThe Brass SpittoonOs Guinness on Liberty and Hope Prolific author and social critic Os Guinness discusses the current challenges for liberty and his hopes for the future. The Chinese-born, English-educated, Irish-rooted scholar who lives in America also shares insights from his time at L’Abri and talks some Arsenal football. Highlights 2:00 “Home” to Os Guinness 3:30 Beer in his blood 5:15 Under his own vine and fig 7:45 Hospitality lessons from Edith Schaeffer 10:45 The 1960s, Jefferson Airplane and the long march 12:3...2021-05-0244 minThe Brass SpittoonThe Brass SpittoonJohn de Graaf, Affluenza, and Stewart UdallSummary Filmmaker John de Graaf pulls up a chair to discuss his 1997 documentary Affluenza; a forthcoming project on Arizona politician and JFK/LBJ’s Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall; the politics of beauty; and a whether John Muir should be cancelled.  Singer/songwriter Wendell Kimbrough closes out the show with “The Ballad of Freida the Goose” from his album “Find Your Way Home.” Highlights 0:50  An FPR podcast, really? 2:15  “Home” to John de Graaf 3:15   Vachel Lindsay and the “Gospel of Beauty” 4:45  Gracy Olmstead's Uprooted 6:00  From Berkeley to a frozen Midw...2021-03-2256 minThe Brass SpittoonThe Brass SpittoonProspects for LocalismThe FPR leadership has decided to make a foray into a new medium (for us). And given this transitional moment in American politics, this seems like a good time. We hosted an on-line discussion that, hopefully, provides an interesting and unique take on current events. For years now we have sought to articulate an alternative to the nationalist, globalist, uniformist vision that has so captivated the ruling classes. The Trump presidency is ending in chaos, and the Biden agenda is yet to be implemented. What are the prospects for localism? Does the post-Trump era open up possibilities for a...2021-01-271h 17Mr. Rational OutlawMr. Rational OutlawIs Nationalism Bad?Is Nationalism Bad?   Support me on:  https://streamlabs.com/rationaloutlaw  https://www.patreon.com/RatonalOutlaw  https://ko-fi.com/G2G4D0K8  https://rationaloutlaw.wixsite.com/blog   Merch store: https://www.teepublic.com/user/mr_rational_outlaw    Follow me on: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxtmBSHnIy2eI1-mLDhehQg  https://www.bitchute.com/channel/rational_outlaw/   https://twitter.com/RationalOutlaw  https://rationaloutlaw.wixsite.com/blog  https://medium.com...2020-01-2711 minPolitical PhilosophyPolitical PhilosophyAlternative Conservatism: Michael Oakeshott’s Model The term “conservatism” is so laden with unfortunate meaning and associations by now that it’s hard to explain to people what it meant before it was confused with liberalism. But it’s really important to do so, because unlike the revolutionary culture-, family- and community-busting market-prioritizing conservatism everyone knows about now, the older version has positive contributions to make in a time of openness to different ways of thinking and living. Michael Oakeshott was a 20th century British thinker who wrote “On Being Conservative.” We’ll read from the essay and mark some notable differences between the natural conservatism of Oakeshott a...2019-08-0417 min