Reimagining America: An Evening with Gus Speth & Juliet Schor

The Center for a New American Dream

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Items of Interest, 10 May 2012, Part 1

Conservative? by Stratford Caldecott

A Teaching for [r]epublicans: Roman History and the Nation’s First Identity by M. E. Bradford

The Constitutional Thought of Thomas Jefferson by James W. Ely, Jr.

PJB, Is This the End of One Europe

The Right’s False Prophet
Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America, Paul Gottfried, Cambridge University Press, 182 pages
By Kenneth B. McIntyre

Thomas Fleming, Mrs. Warren's Professions and Obama's Dramatic Revelation

Obama, Marriage, and the “Anti-Gay” Theme by Matthew J. Franck
Marriage and Procreation: The Intrinsic Connection by Patrick Lee, Robert P. George and Gerard V. Bradley
We the People and Homosexual Marriage
Two Steps from Reasonable About Marriage by Stephen J. Heaney
PJB, The Antietam of the Culture War
Orson Scott Card, What Right is Really at Stake (Was it removed? Republished here.)

James Matthew Wilson, Contraception and Signs of Contradiction: Part 2

Yia-Yia's Nagging Morals:
Last year a Greek food company produced a series of creative and wildly popular ads that juxtaposed modern young people doing what modern young people do—cohabiting, dressing immodestly, and being a stay-at-home dad...

Why hasn't the West already collapsed? Why the delay? Providence?

The Stark Truth: Interview with Virgil Goode (mp3)

Who the hell is "Julia," and why am I paying for her whole life? by David Harsanyi

Richard Spencer, The Future of Alternative Right

Bill Kauffman, How I Met Eldridge Cleaver

Tomgram: Ernest Callenbach, Last Words to an America in Decline

Peter Hitchens, Blood and Iron versus Bread and Wine, the Sad Fate of France in a German Europe

American Empire and Leviathan:
U.S. Military Taught Officers: Use ‘Hiroshima’ Tactics for ‘Total War’ on Islam

Daniel Larison, Obama's Foreign Policy Isn't Restrained or Prudent, Democratic Realists and Obama's Foreign Policy

The Hive and the Heterodoxy by Kelley B. Vlahos

The President’s Private War by Andrew P. Napolitano

Video Shocker:TSA Aggressively Pats Down Congressman

Surveillance State Democracy

Srdja Trifkovic, The Syrian Rebels and the KLA,
Srebrenica as Holocaust

Drores in US Flight Paths

Michael Hill, The False Idol of American Democracy

John Michael Greer, Descent into Stasis

Confederate Memorial Day

The Policeman's Your Friend - As Long as He Can Afford to Be

Counterpunch:
DAVE LINDORFF, The Subsidized Student Loan Scam
RALPH NADER, The Greediness of Brain Drain
TINA LYNN EVANS AND TOM KERNS, Fracking Humanity
KEVIN CARSON, The Crackdown on Occupy
THOMAS H. NAYLOR, Either Way, It’s Business as Usual (Naylor advocates the complete break-up of the "Federal" union.)
PATRICK COCKBURN, The Last Months of Osama bin Laden
HARVEY WASSERMAN, The Nuclear Industry Has Melted in Japan and France


Economics:
Kevin Carson, ALEC’s Fake “Free Market” Apologists on the Right
New IMF working paper models impact of oil limits on the economy by Gail Tverberg (EB)

Distributist Review: A Review of Money as Debt

Bare Bones Biology 106 – Richard Heinberg (mp3)

The Age of Limits Conference: The Conversation I Would Like to Have by y Orren Whiddon

Water commons, water citizenship and water security (EB)
by Buenaventura Dargantes, Mary Ann Manahan, Daniel Moss, and V. Suresh

Killer Summary of Austrian Views of Money, Banking and the Fed — Delivered in Congressional Testimony!

Chris Martenson on TED letures: 'Cornucopians in Space' Deliver a Dangerously Misguided Message

America the Possible: A Discussion with James Gustave Speth, May 15 (essay also available at Yes! Magazine)

Relocalization:
Mark T. Mitchell on Robert Nisbet, Multiply Your Associations and Be Free

A report on ‘Peak Money and Economic Resilience’, a Transition Network one-day conversation

A California Bestiary

Filipa Pimentel on Transition in Portugal: “we try to reduce money exchange in everything we do”
Peak cycling? Bikes are oil hungry beasts
Leveraging Their Localness: A New Piggly Wiggly Commercial All About Local

A New Kind of Corner Store: Healthy Local Food for All

Is Facebook Making us Lonely (FPR)

Permaculture and Farming:
Suburban Permaculture with Janet Barocco and Richard Heinberg

More on Tara Firma Farms

Planting and Mid-Life Crisis



6 Ideas for the Future of Food

Farming Future Despite What Neighbours Think


Peak Oil and Energy:
Tomgram: Michael Klare, Oil Wars on the Horizon
Visualize Gasoline by Richard Heinberg (EB)
The peak oil crisis: perspective by Tom Whipple (EB)

Kickstarter: The Watt: An Energy 101 Primer

Silencing Communities: How the Fracking Industry Keeps Its Secrets

Can renewable energy sustain consumer societies? by Samuel Alexander

A tide of oil and greed by Erik Wallenberg

Items of Interest, 1 May 2012

Gianna Jessen Abortion Survivor in Australia (full)


Balancing the Universal and the Particular in American History
by Bradley J. Birzer, TIC Co-editor

White House: Drone Strikes Ethical and Legal
U.S. Doesn't Need To Know A Person's Name to Kill Him in a Drone Strike

Socratic and Secular Irony
A review of A Case for Irony by Jonathan Lear.

Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, American Dystopia, Fiction or Reality?

America the Possible: A Manifesto, Part II
by James Gustave Speth

This is fine as far as it goes, but it is a leftist communitarian vision and incomplete, as a result. It is missing that aspect of the natural law which pertains to family and community formation, and everything ordered to it (such as sexual morality).

Rod Dreher, What Can I Know? Should I Know?

Former CIA Official Seeking to Confirm Efficacy of Torture Does The Opposite

Hrm... May Day March for Dignity and Resistance—Press Release

Open House at Tara Firma Farms, Saturday, May 5, 1-5 P.M.

Economics:
The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations


Relocalization:
Lights Out for the Territory by Charlotte Du Cann (EB)

Rob Hopkins: My TEDxExeter talk: ‘My town in Transition’


Erik Curren, Today, I’m running for city council

Catholic:
A Traditional Western Icon - From the Rheinau Psalter

Statement on China Commission Meeting
Laity "are called to participate with apostolic zeal in the evangelization of the Chinese people"
Al Mohler's Interview of Ross Douthat

Charity is not an emotion. Is the "ethics of care" dominated by compassion and emotion? And can compassion replace the order of charity? I find the study to be junk designed to make the less or non-religious look better than their "religious" peers.
Highly religious people are less motivated by compassion than are non-believers

EWTN interview on Fr. Joseph's Cause of Canonization
On Wednesday May 2, at 8 p.m. Eastern time, EWTN will broadcast a one-hour interview about Fr. Joseph Muzquiz, a priest of Opus Dei whose cause of canonization has begun in Boston.

Cistercian Spirituality and Emergence of the Coronation of the Virgin in the Late Middle Ages


Feminism:
Financial Return Of Medical Degree Negative For Women?

Kay Hymnowitz on Morning Joe, discussing the supposed "pay gap"

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Diet and Health:
Quantum Nutrition Series: Is there a perfect diet?


What is Paleo?

MDA: Why Don't We Walk Anymore
Forgot the video from Mark Sisson's Primal Resource Guide:


Robb Wolf: Strength Training for BJJ – Episode 130 (mp3)

Fewer carbs short-term gets rid of liver fat

A healthy gut is the hidden key to weight loss

Robert Lustig: The Skinny on Obesity (Ep. 3): Hunger and Hormones- A Vicious Cycle


The Physical Challenge

History:
‘He contents the people wherever he goes’ Richard III: His Parliament and Government
The Participation of Women in the Anglo-Saxon World: Judith and The Wife’s Lament
Women’s Rights in Early England
From Other Worldly to Worldly: Materialism, Anomie, and the Decline of Catharism’s Charismatic Appeal
'The inordinate excess in apparel’: Sumptuary Legislation in Tudor England
In the Wake of the Treaty of Windsor: A Tale of Two Ladies

Rare Footage of Civil War Veterans Doing the Rebel Yell


Music:
Bill Monroe's Mandolin

11th Annual Independent Music Awards

A Spotlight On William Christie by Laura Osterlund


TV:
There's A New Sheriff In Town: 'Longmire'

NYC 22: How Long Before It’s Cancelled?

Park Min Young Reveals Photo from Set of "Dr. Jin"
Is the Japanese drama Jin (DramaWiki) based on the same source material? Seems like it. The Japanese drama was too fantastical, though subtitles would have helped my comprehension more; more thoughts on it here.


Misc:
Mel Gibson Calls Joe Eszterhas’ Anti-Semitic Accusations ‘Utter Fabrications’

Something with Tim Ferris: Japan: Fun in Tokyo & Kyoto

Legion Firearms LF-15d

A leftist on the state of the nation

Orion Magazine: America the Possible: A Manifesto, Part I by James Gustave Speth
From decline to rebirth

A misdiagnosis of the problem... He doesn't get everything wrong, but he does have a nationalistic conception of the union, and he is ignorant of all of the moral/spiritual problems. Would he support the use of the Federal Government to stamp out tradition in the name of progressive liberalism and equality? I don't doubt it.

Where do Uhmericans who share his perspective live? Is it more likely that they live in a megapolis rather than in "fly-over" country? Those who want to conserve a traditional community must gather together now and work for this.