Items of Interest, 15 June 2012

The Flaw in Jefferson’s Idea of Ward Republics by Will Hoyt

The Baleful Comet of Boston: Samuel Adams and the Puritan Republic by M. E. Bradford

The Moral Imagination & Imaginative Conservatism by Eva Brann

William J. Watkins, Storming the Castle Doctrine

Imperial Dusk by Joseph Fallon

Bradley Birzer, Conservatism is Not an Ideology

Permanent Things: T.S. Eliot's Conservatism

Samuel Gregg, A Necessary Symbiosis
America’s Spiritual Capital
by Nicholas Capaldi and Theodore Roosevelt Malloch
St Augustine’s Press (South Bend, Indiana), 2012.
Paper, 176 pages, $17.

Modern but Not Liberal
A confident Christian faith can absorb and sustain the achievements of modernity
David S. Yeago

Too accepting of liberalism as one of the primary causes of modernity? (Rather than an ideology used by some to justify the consequences of political and economic centralization.)

Rod Dreher, Corruption and Family Structure

The Indian Law That Lets Citizens Shoot Cops
AllGov.com

Ralph Nader, Romney's Inante Campaign
Paul Gottfried, An Echo, Not a Choice

A Trump doing something positive? Ivanka Trump Makes Her Mark (modesty in fashion)

The Perfections of Jane Austen by Eva Brann

Economics and Sustainability:
Elinor Ostrom passed away earlier this week. Slate. Indiana University.

Thomas Storck, Too Few Capitalists or Too Much Capitalism

The Myth of the Free Market American Health Care System

Book review: "Energy and the Wealth of Nations"
by Richard Vodra, JD, CFP

'The End of Growth'… and then what? (review of Heinberg and Rubin) (EB)
Crawford Kilian, The Tyee

END OF GROWTH UPDATE: Neither a borrower nor a lender be by Richard Heinberg (EB)

Bill Rees: Why We're in Denial (EB)
by Justin Ritchie & Seth Moser-Katz



Relocalization:
Making a Local Coat: From Raw Materials to Finished Product

Eating our way to a better world? : A plea to local, fair-trade, organic food enthusiasts by Andrea Brower

Chris Martenson's website has some changes.

Is Your Home Fit? Here’s How to Find Out

John Michael Greer, Collapse Now and Avoid the Rush and The Parting of the Ways

Earth Blood : John Michael Greer (interview) - mp3

Club Orlov: Fragility and Collapse: Slowly at first, then all at once and Our Brave Experiment

10 Ways to Love Where You Live

We should do what we can to be neighborly and sociable, but these steps will not eradicate profound differences in culture and identity.

Farming:
Gene Logsdon, Can garden farming be too successful? (EB)

Soil Survivor: An Interview with Will Allen

Peak Oil and Energy:
Oil and the future: a review of Peeking at Peak Oil (EB)
Kersti Kollberg, Uppsala Nya Tidning (Aleklett's Energy Mix)

Modifying Hubbert’s model of peak oil to account for a rise in production due to higher prices (EB)
James Hamilton, Econbrowser


[ Charles Hall // Energy Returns ]

[ Charles Hall // Energy Returns ] from Extraenvironmentalist on Vimeo.

Energy Return on (Energy) Invested (EROI), Oil Prices, and Energy Transitions

Peak Oil = Slavery?

Education:
U of All People

Catholic:
Why I Wore A Strapless Wedding Dress
(Reminds me of JC and her wedding at the CC chapel.)

Political Withdrawal Reconsidered

James Kalb, In the Middle of the Journey
Catholics need to oppose the movement toward a society that prizes above all else security, efficiency, and the ever-more-demanding liberal version of human rights.


Music:
A review in the SFCV of Jordi Savall's concerts last weekend.

Materialism is Killing Country Music by Charlie Spiering

Older Jeff Rubin talks

2009:


2010:

Jeff Rubin on Peak Oil

Energy Bulletin - Toronto Public Libary.



The following parts after the jump...

Review: Jeff Rubin on The End of Growth (EB)
Andrew McKay, Southern Limits

Random House Canada (is a US version on the way?)

From the summary provided by the review:

Population


•Japan is an opportunity to be studied as it has had a declining population for the last decade. It can be treated as a microcosm for where the rest of the world is heading.
•Because economic growth is directly linked to lower birth rates, in an age of zero growth it is essential to focus on female education to reduce birthrates.
•Hungry people have three choices: rebel, migrate or die. With lower energy use per capita migration is becoming increasingly difficult. The Arab Spring was in Rubin’s view Malthus come true. A huge population with very few economic options rebelled and overthrew a number of governments

The popular correlation between female education and decline in birthrates - instead of looking at education (which is advocated by feminists and industrialists alike), should we not look instead at the los of economic freedom as the cause? Women who are compelled into the labor force in a newly emerging "capitalist" system in order to survive may find that they cannot afford to have more than one or two children. We should also look on the negative pressure of urbanization up on reproduction.


Globe and Mail review
Say so long to cheap oil, economist says


Related:
Surviving Progress (EB) (high/low)
Justin Ritchie & Seth Moser-Katz, The Extraenvironmentalist

Rethinking Economic Growth (EB)
Justin Ritchie & Seth Moser-Katz, The Extraenvironmentalist


Episode #40 // Corporate Influence (high/low)

Items of Interest, 12 January 2012

Peter Hitchens, Reflections on the Rule of Law, on Scotland and on an astonishingly cruel portrayal of Lady Thatcher
Daniel Larison, Thoughts on Scottish Independence

Recessing the Constitution By W. James Antle, III

Bring Order to the Commonwealth by Ordering the Soul

Virginia’s New Ecclesiasticism

Afghanistan:
Obama's Mission Accomplished Moment?
And a military-first policy on a destabilizing planet
Don’t Count on Obama’s Defense Cuts by Ivan Eland
Marine Corps Manual Offers a Blunt, Revealing Portrait of Afghan War
New National Intelligence Estimate on Afghanistan: War Still a Stalemate

Iran:
RALPH NADER, Iran: the Neocons Are At It Again
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS, The Next War on Washington’s Agenda
GARETH PORTER, Clinton Revives Dubious Charge of “Covert” Iranian Nuclear Site

What War With Iran Might Look Like by Philip Giraldi

Fabius Maximus, Status report on the war with Iran (we’re ignorantly drifting into yet another illegal war)
What happens if Iran gets nukes? Not what we’ve been told.
What happens when a nation gets nukes? Sixty years of history suggests an answer.
What does the IAEA know about Iran’s nuclear program? Enough to start a war?

Farming and Relocalization:
Greener Pastures with Lunatic Farmer Joel Salatin (EB)
If you want more local food, stop criminalizing family farmers (EB)
How resilient is the food system? by Adam Streed (EB)

The Happy Hoarder: Put a cork in it

Gene Logsdon, Hail, The Mighty Pocketknife (EB)

Economics:
The Faustian bargain that modern economists never mention (EB)
Dr. Gary Peters, Our Finite World
Friends and Strangers: A Meditation on Money by John Médaille
Peter Hitchens, Does Immigration cause Unemployment? And other matters
The return of "The Limits to Growth" by Ugo Bardi (EB)
Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory

Peak Oil and Energy:
Warm and fuzzy on geothermal? by Tom Murphy (EB)
What do triple digit oil prices mean for growth? by Jeff Rubin
The peak oil crisis: gasoline in 2012 by Tom Whipple (EB)
Richard Heinberg, Geopolitical Implications of Peak Everything
The End of Growth

The Crisis of Civilization

The Crisis of Civilization: Trailer from thecrisisofcivilization on Vimeo.

Catholic:
British Jesuit welcomes Scorsese's latest film project (via First Thoughts)
Dominican friars appointed to the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas

Music:
Shelby Lynne: A Murder Ballad Hits Close To Home by Lynne Margolis

Documentary with Bela Fleck: Throw Down Your Heart


California Pickers: Butch Waller

TV:
‘Justified’ Star Timothy Olyphant On Violence And Villain, Neal McDonough

Jeff Rubin: Oil and the End of Civilization

Jeff Rubin: Oil and the End of Civilization

Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization




From last year: The Oil Drum | Jeff Rubin Talks about Oil and the Economy

Energy Bulletin:
Distance costs money

Lindsay Curren, Transition Voice

Economist Jeff Rubin, author of Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization says that high oil prices caused every US recession since the 1970s. Now we complain that credit scams are a bubble that will cause deflation. But is oil still lurking in there?

Peak coal is moving closer too

Tom Whipple, Falls Church News-Press

If what we are witnessing is the actual peaking of China's domestic coal production - which is half the world's production -- then this event could turn out to be as serious as the peaking of oil.

The Oil Drum: Jeff Rubin: Oil and the End of Globalization - ASPO-USA