More conservatives speaking in ignorance of the alt-right and the reality of identity politics.

Identity and Ethnos in Socrates’s Athens: A Response to Jordan Wales by Jesse Russell

Disappointing to see something like this at FPR. If they have to be PC, it would be better if they just left the alt-right alone.

Wishful Futurism

The rise of [mega-]city-states: The End of the Nation-State? by Parag Khanna

Related:
Energy, Ecology, & Economics — Part II by Mary Logan (Resilience)
Oath Keepers: Bring On the Collapse!
True Natural Aristocracy

The Republic and Modern Ethics: Disorder in the Soul by John V. Gerardi

Items of Interest, 5 March 2012

A brief legal (and mildly political) analysis of the NDAA



First Heretical Notions, now Paul Gottfried: A Modest Secessionist Proposal

Thomas Fleming, Putin and Democracy, American-Style
Kevin Carson, To Vote, or Not to Vote?
Ted Galen Carpenter, Enlisting America
Peter Hitchens, Pay Cops – a Grim Prophecy May be Coming True
James Howard Kunstler, Reality Check
Christopher Shannon on L. Brent Bozell: "Freedom or Virtue?" Revisited

Counterpunch:
PAM MARTENS AND RUSS MARTENS, Koch Brothers, Worth $50 Billion, Sue Widow Over $16.00 of Nonprofit’s Stock
KARL GROSSMAN, Nuclear Power and the Big Lie
MIKE WHITNEY, Mom and Pop Investors Call It Quits
PATRICK COCKBURN, Israel’s Huff and Puff Game

Economics:
Uneconomic growth deepens depression by Herman Daly (EB)
Debt and the Transition economy by Joanne Poyourow (EB)

Relocalization and Agrarianism:
It’s Not a Fairytale: Seattle to Build Nation’s First Food Forest
Making local food our future: A community response to the global food system by Katharine Darling (EB)
Our co-owned future by Gar Alperovitz (EB)
I got the power! by Charlotte Du Cann (EB)
Kick Wall Street to the curb, get $15 trillion by Erik Curren
Reclaiming domesticity from a consumer culture

Catholic:
Robert L. Wilken, Tutoring the Affections: Liturgy and Christian Formation in the Early Church

Dr. Mahrt's book, The Musical Shape of the Liturgy, is now available! We've waited a century for this work.

Penitence and Repentance: A Lenten Primer
Women and the Priesthood by Renee Pomarico

Education:
Why We Study Plato By Dr. Brian T. Kelly

History:
The Village Ale-Wife: Women and Brewing in Fourteenth-Century England
The Medieval Horse Harness: Revolution or Evolution? A Case Study in Technological Change
Why did the Anglo-Saxons not become more British?
North-European Trading Centres and the Early Medieval Craftsman; Craftsmen at Åhus, north-eastern Scania, Sweden ca. AD 750-850+
The myth of the medieval chastity belt

Food:
Barbecue Styles Across the United States: An Introduction

Music:
Belfry Fellows (FB)- Gotta Little Somethin'


The Renaissance of Polyphony by Damian Fowler

Harmonia Early Music: I Am Woman, Hear Me Sing

Book Event: Sisterhood of Dune by Brian Herbert

Book Event: Sisterhood of Dune by Brian Herbert from Suvudu on Vimeo.

Items of Interest, 28 November 2011

Srjda Trifkovic, Multicultural vs. Stereotypical

Plato’s Euthyphro: Introduction by Thomas Fleming

Justin Raimondo, The Price of Empire

FBI Adds Preppers to Potential Terrorists List

Shannon Hayes, Toilet Paper: Preparedness or True Resilience

Sharon Astyk, How to Eat Cheap (EB)

Don't Panic! by Catriona Ross (EB)

Economics:
The new Story of Stuff: Can we consume less? by Fred Pearce (EB)

"Demand-Side Economics" and the Liberal Denial of Reality by Erik Lindberg (EB)

A mindful path to a steady state economy by Rick Heller (EB)
Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy

Why is economic growth so popular? by Ugo Bardi (EB)

VIRTUAL SYMPOSIUM: Land Tenure and Anarchic Common Law

Energy:
The Energy Return on Investment threshold by David Murphy (EB)

OWS:
Ralph Nader, Let Them In

On Black Friday: A Look at the Occupy Movement and Buy Nothing Day

Counterpunch:
Franklin Spinney, AF-Pak SITREP
Brian McKenna, Student Loan Fury in the Occupy Movement
Paul Craig Roberts, The Roads to War and Economic Collapse and Just Another Goldman Sachs Take-over

A pathetic piece by a pedestaller on a book written by another pedestaller: Women Are Better at Almost Everything

November 28 2011: Are we there yet?

Don't go back to school: An interview with author Kio Stark by Paul M. Davis (EB)

Diet and Health:
How to Eliminate Tooth Decay

History:
A Chivalrous Man is not a Gentleman: A Look at Chivalry in the Age of Chaucer
Childhood in Medieval England, c.500-1500