Pass the Biscuits
From Reason, Jesse Walker, ace archivist/alchemist of Americana, on the toothless but entertaining populist Texan Pappy O’Daniel.
View ArticleTwenty Years Now, Where’d They Go?
The Future of Freedom Foundation has reprinted “The Empire versus Little America,” my speech from what was, in a parallel universe, the epochal 2010 conference that begat the peace group Come Home,...
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Minnesota’s second literary Nobelist is the subject of The Political World of Bob Dylan: Freedom and Justice, Power and Sin, a perceptive book by our porchite colleague Jeff Taylor. Herewith my two...
View ArticleBack There Where the Past Was
From The American Conservative, memories of the Crooked Lake Review gang.
View ArticleDeliver us from Nowhere
The perils of placeless populism, from The American Conservative.
View ArticleSo Long, Leonard Cohen
One of the pleasures of living near the Canadian border is Canuck radio, which due to local content regulations (the good protectionism) plays a steady diet (varying greatly in nutritional value) of...
View ArticleThe Elector Defector
BURNED-OVER DISTRICT, NY — As rumors of rogue electors spike the December air, I offer this piece from 2001, which is included in my Poetry Night at the Ballpark and Other Scenes from An Alternative...
View ArticleHoward Frank Mosher, RIP
Howard Frank Mosher, the Vermont novelist whose Kingdom County is one of the great American–which is to say regional–literary creations, has died. Don’t mourn; read him. Herewith a remembrance by...
View ArticleJimmy Breslin, RIP
Jesse Walker on the late columnist’s role in the greatest political campaign of the last half century.
View ArticleBruce Langhorne, RIP
Bruce Langhorne, best known as the inspiration for Bob Dylan’s “Mr. Tambourine Man” but best loved (by me, anyway) for his extraordinary score for Peter Fonda’s 1971 acid Western The Hired Hand, a...
View ArticleEve of Arden
From Reason, Jesse Walker on the jolly Georgist suburb of Arden, Delaware.
View ArticleThe Buffalo Saver
From The American Conservative, Tim Tielman, the Man Who Loved Buffalo.
View ArticleIf I Were a Carpenter/And You Lived in Cadiz….
From the New Oxford Review, Will Hoyt on his move from Berkeley to eastern Ohio.
View ArticleBack to Ohio
From the New Oxford Review, Part Two of Will Hoyt’s survey of eastern Ohio…featuring a triple play of Traci Lords, Clement Vallandigham, and H.H. Richardson!
View ArticlePass the Biscuits
From Reason, Jesse Walker, ace archivist/alchemist of Americana, on the toothless but entertaining populist Texan Pappy O’Daniel.
View ArticleTwenty Years Now, Where’d They Go?
The Future of Freedom Foundation has reprinted “The Empire versus Little America,” my speech from what was, in a parallel universe, the epochal 2010 conference that begat the peace group Come Home,...
View ArticleDy-No-Mite!
Minnesota’s second literary Nobelist is the subject of The Political World of Bob Dylan: Freedom and Justice, Power and Sin, a perceptive book by our porchite colleague Jeff Taylor. Herewith my two...
View ArticleBack There Where the Past Was
From The American Conservative, memories of the Crooked Lake Review gang.
View ArticleDeliver us from Nowhere
The perils of placeless populism, from The American Conservative.
View ArticleSo Long, Leonard Cohen
One of the pleasures of living near the Canadian border is Canuck radio, which due to local content regulations (the good protectionism) plays a steady diet (varying greatly in nutritional value) of...
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