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John Crowe Ransom on Leisure

It's hard to pick a favorite essay from I'll Take My Stand, but the lead essay by John Crowe Ransom, "Unreconstructed but Unregenerate," is a leading candidate. The essay spends ample time criticizing what Joseph Pieper also condemned: the world of "total work.

End of the Encampments?

Judge Glock at City Journal

Third Places Aren't Enough: On Community Gardens

Sarah Soltis at Public Discourse

Labor Day Weekend

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot of Melancholy

Scrolling Blog: August 2023

August 31, 2023 Kauffman in Scranton An essay by Bill Kauffman always triggers my forefinger. He's a man with a robust right hemisphere, or at least a severe distrust of his left and the conditions/presumptions created by a culture of left-hemisphere dominance. In this piece, Kauffman

The Month that Perished

Because There's Always More to be Said

What de Lubac Would Think About the Synod on Synodality

Robert Imbelli at First Things

The Liberty to Value Common Goods: A Review of The Political Economy of Distributism

Jon D. Schaff at Front Porch Republic

Faulkner, Foote, Percy, Percy, and Kauffman, P.C.

A snapshot of the southern literary tradition in the early 20th century I think Bill Kauffman knows more literary anecdotes than any man alive. I ran across this passage last night* while recovering from a migraine and just flipping through my random notes: Among my favorite interviewees was novelist and

BYCU

Amaze your drinking friends this weekend with this batch of lore