Local Politics: Small May Not Be Beautiful, But It’s What We’ve Got

By |2016-08-22T10:30:58-05:00January 3rd, 2013|Categories: Books, Bruce Frohnen, Christianity, Community, Culture, Economics, Modernity, Political Economy|Tags: |

What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us.—Alasdair MacIntyre in After Virtue MacIntyre’s brilliant critique of modernity and its many failings was published almost thirty years ago. Its many [...]

Stirred by Shakers: On the Elegant Errors of a Failed Sect

By |2015-08-24T12:33:56-05:00January 3rd, 2013|Categories: Art, Books, C. R. Wiley, Christianity, Film|

When it comes to the opinion of the people who matter, the Shakers are hip. They had all the correct views: They practiced sustainable agriculture and gender equality, and they even reduced their carbon footprint to almost zero. (There are said to be only three Shakers left in North America—that’s what celibacy will do for [...]

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