Highlights

1:00      Biloxi boy and Berry man

5:30      Unlikely CT choice?

11:00    Wendell at his most metaphysical          

16:30    Crowning Kingsnorth (or not yet)            

26:00    Carl Henry and the future of Evangelicalism

32:00    Praying away    

35:00    Ezekiel and the fog machine      

40:00    Kids seeking Orthodoxy and old folks?                 

44:15    A global and Martian focus                      

48:00    Keller on moving institutions

51:00    Berry patch pickings      

Resources

Russell's bio and Berry's cover

Marce Catlett at the FPR Bookshop

Scott Moore and Berry at Georgetown College

Rise and Fall podcast

Wendell Kimbrough helps us find our way home

Highlights

1:15       Dirt roads and tricorne hats

3:15       Protesting with the life-changing Wendell Berry

6:45       Paneling over real problems      

16:30    Evacuate the building!  

19:15    Looking back, looking forward

23:30    Deregulation to the rescue?       

31:00    Lone Star State of mind

34:30    Corny truths and consequences

40:00    Cultists and conservative Sunday school teachers            

53:30    A new day for the sun   

Resources

Bill's bio and buy the book (and the other book)

Solar SunDay and nitro Sunday, Sunday, Sunday

Van Morrison’s Brand New Day

If Bill’s statement about 9 million deaths raised an eyebrow, here’s more on that.

Wendell Kimbrough helps us find our way home

Highlights

1:00       Aspiring galactic editor and globe trotter

5:45       Street level reporting v. suite level pontification

15:15    BREAKING:  Flatwater Free Press on the Zenger Prize long list      

18:00    Welcome to the jungle . . . and Phoenix

25:00    Adventure is out there!

30:00    A young communist hears Jesus in Russian

34:00    Leaving World for purple pastures

41:00    Character counts, on the diamond and in the Oval

49:00    Covering Marvin’s seat at W’s table

59:45    Hitchhiking as a way of life

Resources

Marvin's bio and buy the book (and the other book)

Announcing the Zenger Prize winners at FPR

Read the winning articles

Nominate the next winner

Marvin’s work at Current (R.I.P)

Wendell Kimbrough helps us find our way home

Highlights

1:00       California to Idaho (before everybody was doing it)

12:00    The plane, the plane!

19:00    Picture pages, picture pages

26:00    Raising the dead with his students (and Robert Redford)

37:00    Finding Jesus in the mountains

45:15    Turning green in the pulpit

57:00    Timber Butte homecoming

61:00    Looking for the real thing

66:00    Thanks and love

Resources

Tri's homestead website and buy the book

Full Cowboy & Preacher film

“Check your local listings.” (It’s 10 a.m. 12/28/24 in Idaho on PBS World)

On PBS with Bill Moyers two decades ago

“Liver-Eating” Johnson’s grave

Wendell Kimbrough helps us find our way home

Highlights

1:00       Pacific Northwesterner in western PA

8:00       Prospects for localism and trad wives now

11:00    Bilbro’s obsessive bibliography

17:00    Printing press 2.0 and Postman problems

25:30    Frederick Douglass, cancer patient

30:00    Margaret Fuller, proto-podcaster

35:00    Melville’s pilgrimage and Jeff’s truck stop oats

40:00    A convivial reading

Resources

Jeff's bio and buy the book (and some more books)

FPR’s excerpt (suitable for nailing on church doors)

Exploring Ivan Illich on the podcast

John reviews Jeff’s early works here and here

Wendell Kimbrough helps us find our way home

Highlights

1:30       Second home

8:15       The national “we”

13:45    A dignified basis for unity

21:00    Changing culture by changing institutions

25:00    Make Congress boring again

29:00    What women want

32:00    Cheese pizza and Tip O’Neill

37:00    Think Tank U

41:00    A hunger for scallops and solidarity

47:00    Plausible deniability?

50:00    A hopeful Constitution Day

Resources

Yuval's bio and buy the book

FPR’s review

Yascha Mounk, Yuval, and the back of John’s head at AEI

Wendell Kimbrough helps us find our way home

Highlights

1:15                Mud pies for Parisians

6:00                Hillbillies on the run

9:30                Romney/Palin ‘08

11:00              Prison break with the Kardashians

13:30              Pulling political punches

20:00              Google University School of Journalism

27:30              French Holy Ghost revival

31:30              Befriending a critic

38:00              Laker girl

39:30              Trusting God with cancer

42:00              Back on the case

Resources

Nancy’s website and buy the book

John’s review

Wendell Kimbrough helps us find our way home

Highlights

2:30       A lively home and coffee shop

4:00       Trumpy Christians?

7:15       Find a secular van fam, win a free book!

16:30    Was Hillary right?

22:15    Trickling down to Fishtown?

29:30    House plans, town plans

36:30    Work from home

43:45    Childless for the planet or better by the trillion

54:00    Ponzi scheme or Korean contagion

57:00    The sporting life

Resources

Tim’s bio and buy the book

FPR at 15

Churchy Trump resistance column

Nancy Pearcey’s  “Common Good Men”

Korean “Child Free”Zones

Wendell Kimbrough helps us find our way home

Highlights

1:30       Rory Groves, unlikely agrarian

Ashley Colby:  “Doomer Optimism: Life Adjacent to the Machine”

5:30       Adjacent, whether we like it or not

7:45       Donkey driving, mastodon ranching, hospitality boot camp

12:00    Alaskan laundries and cider-sipping city dwellers

Bill Kauffman:  “Off the Empire, On Wisconsin”

17:15    A thieving historian

22:00    Rural drama

26:00    Little things mean a lot

33:00    You’re out!

38:30    A midnight tale

Resources

Speaker bios and conference videos

FPR Books and bookshop

Conference co-sponsor Plough

Thanks to Wendell Kimbrough for our theme music

Highlights

1:30       Bayou Bengal Volunteer farmer

5:45       A monastic text

11:15    Man of letters

14:00    Pesto chango

15:30    Remote control

18:00    Growing pains

23:00    Lamb on the lam

27:15    The rest of the story

Resources

Buy the book

An excerpt at FPR

Brian’s farm and blog

Paul Harvey’s “So God Made a Farmer”

Highlights

Jeff Polet:  Introduction

1:30       Statistical sirens

3:00       Humane oxymorons

5:15       Dirty politics

6:15       Animal farm

9:45       Oh yeah, the intros!

Adam Smith: “The Politics of Reenchantment”

10:15    A reading from St. Aldo’s almanac

11:45    Frontlines in the War on Suffering

20:00    Enchanting politics with fairies and green fire

24:00    Institutionalizing flatness

31:00    Supernaturally small

Mark Mitchell: “Politics in Babel”

33:00    Towers trump?

38:00    Name callers

42:00    Crashing symbols

46:00    Abraham skips the bricks

47:15    Hope in failure

John Murdock: “Back to the Future of the Religious Right”

51:45    “The Poll” and holy holes

57:00    Franciscan biography

62:00    White and wrongs

66:00    The limits of integrity

69:00    Polyface politics and ravines made for walking

Resources

Speaker bios and conference videos

FPR Books and bookshop

Conference co-sponsor Plough

Thanks to Wendell Kimbrough for our theme music

Highlights

1:00       Kate kicks things off

Jeff Bilbro:  “Where Now Are Wayland’s Bones?”

3:30       Kingsnorth and Norse smith explained

12:30    Tempted by ease and justice

15:00    AI amigos for the autonomous

19:00    Computerized convocations

22:00    Wise touch

Cassandra Nelson: “Median Humans and the Life That Really is Life”

26:00    Harboring a secret subtitle

29:15    A hallucinating average machine

34:30    M.A.D. results

41:00    Fancy tooters over computers

45:00    Against photocopies

Tessa Carman: “The Joy of Tech Resistance”

46:30    FPR Match Game

48:00    Manifestos and better tools

51:00    You don’t have to!

55:00    Postman knocks, people dance

63:00    Better names and best practices

Resources

Speaker bios and conference videos

Interview with Jeanne Schindler on Postman Pledge

FPR Books and bookshop

Conference co-sponsor Plough

Thanks to Wendell Kimbrough for our theme music

Highlights

1:00       Matt Stewart, teacher’s pet/pest and herb connoisseur

Eric Miller:  “The Instructed Imagination” 

6:00       Hannah Coulter v. Mark Heard

13:30    Collegiate conscience and imagination

16:00    Augustine’s commonweal

20:00    O’Connor’s name calling

23:00    Walker and Wendell looking for hope

Jason Peters:  “Imagination: Not Whimsical but Fatal”

27:45    Last year’s speech and this year’s joke

29:30    The propositions begin

35:00    Stoves and stand-up

38:00    Rainbows on the run

43:00    Unified Kauffman and computerized thinking

50:00    Fatalities and old farts  

Resources

Speaker bios and conference videos

FPR Books and bookshop

Conference co-sponsor Plough

Thanks to Wendell Kimbrough for our theme music

Highlights

2:00       Jeff introduces Paul

3:30       Paul introduces his thrift shop shirt

7:30       The disquiet of machine things

12:30    Surface debates and the depths beneath

19:00    Mumford and some on the suicide of the West

25:00    Anti-culture and real culture-making

29:00    Who is on the throne? (Or Paul as a sociological Bill Bright)

35:00    Transhumanist candor

38:00    Signs of light and darkness with Guenon and Spengler

47:00    A reluctant convert

50:00    Leaving the broken center for the margins

60:00    Short on saints 

Resources

Paul’s Substack and an interview at FPR

On "AI Demonic" at Touchstone

“The Cross and the Machine” at First Things

Conference videos

Conference co-sponsor Plough

Wendell Kimbrough helps us find our way home

Highlights 

1:15 Mark Mitchell’s welcome 

4:00 Paul flies in 

5:30 A long list of labels 

7:30 Roots and power 

8:15 My neighbor Vinny (and his dying cousins) 

12:30 Centering work 

14:00 Citizen culture 

19:00 Two trinities 

23:00 Our like will not be here again 

24:30 Candles to blow 

37:30 The still point in the turning world 

30:00 An Orthodox Texan’s sermon 

32:45 Closing hymn  

Resources 

Paul’s Substack and an interview at FPR 

“The Cross and the Machine” 

Conference videos 

Wendell Kimbrough helps us find our way home 

Host:     John Murdock

Guest:  Bill Kauffman

Highlights

1:30      Defending the homeland

2:30      The Closer

7:45      Muckdog memories

12:15    Perfectly sized

15:00    First Man and Senate staffer

18:00    Morning drinks and Mormon journeys

22:15    Life on the fringe

24:00    Not a murderer

26:15    Jimmie Foxx found dead

29:30    Paying the bills

31:30    A Barber in the House

34:30    Bucket listless

36:00    See you in Madison, but I digress

Resources

Bill’s work at FPR, TAC, and The Spectator

Poetry Night at the Ballpark

The Congressional Journal of Barber B. Conable

Liberty Fund

Wendell Kimbrough helps us find our way home

Speakers:  Mark Mitchell, Rachel Ferguson, and Bill Kauffman 

Highlights 

2:30 Mark Mitchell — Why Property Matters 

3:15 FPR, born in apocalypse  

9:00 Plutocrats and socialists, a love story 

19:30 What would the Founders do?  

22:15 Rachel Ferguson — What’s Wrong with the Roads? 

23:30 Housing many things in the Black Church 

26:30 Eugenics, red lines, and roads 

30:00 Cars explained, Ike appalled 

38:00 Neighborhood Stabilization (and its All-Stars) 

46:30 “Paid to talk to me” v. the Jesus people 

50:00 Bill Kauffman —The View from the Cemetery 

51:00 Grave matters with Walt Whitman 

54:00 Masons and monuments 

58:30 Wings are overrated 

1:00 Barry Goldwater and friends 

1:04 Ontologically speaking 

1:07 Baseball R.I.P. 

Resources 

Speaker bios 

Conference videos 

Save the (new!) date:  2023 Conference in Madison, Wisconsin (October 21, 2023) 

Thanks to Wendell Kimbrough for his musical talents 

The penultimate session from the FPR conference After Virtual:  The Art of Recovering Lost Goods addresses health.  Philosopher Adam Smith from the University of Dubuque and medical doctor Brian Volck, author of Attending Others: A Doctor’s Education in Bodies and Words, take on the medical/industrial complex (with assists from Alasdair MacIntyre and Wendell Berry). 

Speakers:  Adam Smith and Brian Volck 

Highlights 

2:15 Adam Smith—Medicine After Virtue 

3:15 Medicine in the New Dark Ages  

5:00 Out of practice 

11:30 The medicalization of everything  

16:00 Infected with emotivism  

20:00 Curing the disease of freedom in 1851 

26:00 De-medicalizing birth, death, and more  

29:00 Brian Volck — Hospitality, Responsibility, and Presence: Practicing Medicine as if Bodies Actually Mattered  

31:00 Bad metaphors and good definitions 

33:00 The trouble with trolleys and telemedicine  

41:00 Patients in the flesh 

45:00 Paleo-Benedictine hospitality 

48:15 Stewarding stethoscopes 

51:30 Q & A 

Resources 

Speaker bios 

Conference videos 

Save the date:  2023 Conference in Madison, Wisconsin (October 7, 2023) 

Thanks to Wendell Kimbrough for his musical talents 

Speaker:  Chris Arnade—An Address in the Universe of Meaning 

Highlights 

3:00 Prayer time around the world 

6:45 The liberal emancipation project (of destruction) 

10:30 Transcendent values first seen in a traffic jam 

16:00 “Everything we believed was wrong” 

27:00 Place and the giant sucking sound of NAFTA 

30:00 Family ties 

32:00 The “meaning” address and its replacement 

Resources 

Speaker bios 

Conference videos 

Save the date:  2023 Conference in Madison, Wisconsin (October 21, 2023) 

Dignity:  Seeking Respect in Back Row America  

The Substack home of a traveling man 

An NPR story on Chris Arnade 

Arnade’s work at The Guardian and The Atlantic 

Thanks to Wendell Kimbrough for his musical talents 

Speakers:  Jeff Polet, Angel Adams Parham, and Jason Peters 

Highlights 

1:15 Jeff Polet—Why I Left the Academy 

2:00 The news from Nineveh  

5:30 Signs of declines 

8:30 Searching for a pony  

16:30 Jargon, gymnasts, adjudications, and generals  

23:15 Gerald Ford comes calling  

25:00 Angel Adams Parham—Education for Flourishing: K-16 and Beyond 

26:30 Cultural canons and tug-of-war 

28:15 Classics and community 

32:30 Taking creative license with the gods 

34:00 Disturbing images of beauty 

40:00 Rapping Homer, Reading Frederick Douglas, and Rediscovering Sundiata 

45:00 Resources for Learning 

47:00 Jason Peters—The Sin Against the Body: For This They Wept Not 

48:30 March madness and the managerial class 

51:45 Phone sex prophecy 

55:00 Would not a storm by any other name smell just the same 

58:00 Even better than the real thing? 

64:00 1909 all over again 

70:00 Truth buoys up 

Resources 

Speaker bios 

Conference videos 

Save the date:  2023 Conference in Madison, Wisconsin (October 7, 2023) 

Thanks to Wendell Kimbrough for his musical talents 

Speakers:  Carl Trueman, Gregory Hogg, and Charlie Cotherman 

Highlights 

1:15 Carl Trueman 

3:00 Is it all Protestantism’s fault? 

4:00 How to take over an empire 

6:15 Reformations and technology 

11:00 Overlooked revolutionary sausages  

13:45 Our age of social acceleration  

16:45 A challenge to holy time 

19:00 A challenge to community 

20:00 Gregory Hogg 

20:15 Christians and plagues 

23:00 Masks and noble lies 

26:00 Vaccines and Canadians 

28:00 Virtual worship? 

30:00 Body and Church 

31:30 Charlie Cotherman 

32:00 Elisha’s physical engagement 

35:00 Resurrection, proximity, and presence 

39:00 Community and COVID tech 

42:30 To the statistics 

46:00 Invasive species and unholy shortcuts 

Resources 

Speaker bios 

Conference videos 

Save the date:  2023 Conference in Madison, Wisconsin (October 7, 2023) 

Thanks to Wendell Kimbrough for his musical talents 

Host:  John Murdock 

Guest: Mark Mitchell 

Highlights 

1:30 Mark Mitchell, happy at home chopping wood 

5:00 FPR, the early days 

9:00 How not to change the world  

12:00 The messy remainder of reality 

13:00 From Richard Weaver to “You’ll Own Nothing and You’ll be Happy” 

19:30 Gnostic temptations v. the Incarnation  

23:00 The odd couple:  plutocracy and socialism 

31:30 The not so odd couple:  productive property and democratic citizenship 

36:00 The myth of maximal emancipation 

39:00 Tocqueville’s aristocratic fears 

45:00 Prospects for property in a time of chronic crisis 

52:45 Friendly pushback on COVID and climate (with a cameo by Roger Scruton) 

60:00 If they are for it, we’re against it 

64:00 Loving our neighbor to counter a nationalized focus 

Resources 

Buy the book 

Mitchell’s bio at FPR 

An excerpt from Plutocratic Socialism 

Wendell Kimbrough helps us find our way home 

Host:     John Murdock

Guest:  Matthew Stewart

Highlights

2:00       Stewart, man of Geneva and Idaho

5:00       Wallace Stegner 101

7:00       “Geography of hope” and other famous phrases

7:45       A sharp dressed man in the eyes of his student, Wendell Berry

9:30       Ranking the novels

11:30    Mary Hallock Foote controversy

14:00    Life story of a Silicon Valley pioneer

16:45    Family’s outlaw life and death

18:30    California here he comes

19:45    Utopian suburban dreams

22:15    Searching for substance in a “formless non-community”

26:00    Anguished questions of the 1960s

30:15    Fan mail from frustrated parents

33:00    Stuck in Vermont

36:00    Edward Abbey sets the scene

38:00    Finding beauty in the places we know

Resources

Buy the book

Stewart’s bio at FPR

Stegner’s Wilderness Letter

Mary Hallock Foote matter still controversial in 2022

A piece on Stegner and his students

Wendell Kimbrough helps us find our way home

Host:  John Murdock 

Guest: Katharine Hayhoe  

Highlights 

1:30  A pine forest smells like home 

2:45  The gendered physics of a scientific career 

5:45  Friction from the fellow faithful 

10:15 Working with Gingrich, Obama, and Trump 

15:30 Pelosi and Gingrich were on the couch.  So, what went wrong? 

20:45 COVID, climate, and the Church of Facebook 

24:30 Dr. Fauci, East Anglia emails, and arrogance 

28:30 Tree rings, Skeptical Science, and the “trick” 

33:30 Nit-picking on emails? 

37:00 Al Gore enters the conversation 

39:45 Rolling loaded weather dice 

41:45 What communicates in a polarized time? 

45:45 Dealing with the “dismissives” 

49:00 Scriptural models for the overly skeptical 

52:00 N.T. Wright and the end of the world as we know it? 

55:00 Katharine’s vast media empire explained 

Resources 

Dr. Hayhoe’s website 

PBS Global Weirding series 

The latest book:  Saving Us 

Skeptical Science 

Murdock on Skeptical Science and “hide the decline” 

Wendell Kimbrough helps us find our way home 

Host:  John Murdock

Guest:  Charles “Chuck” Marohn

Highlights

 1:15      A boy from Brainerd

3:45       Strong Towns explained

6:30       What’s an engineer good for?

8:45       Breaking through with talking bears

13:15    A need for speed

16:45    So, what’s a “STROAD”?

17:45    The futon of transportation

20:30    Walking to die in the land of Dr. Seuss

27:00    Philando Castile and traffic trolling cops

36:30    I-49, $700M, and the saints of Shreveport

45:30    Lightning Round with Elon Musk, destroyed stop lights, and more

50:00    Wrapping it up, early in the morning

Resources

Strong Towns website

Chuck’s late-night video that goes viral

Steve Martin the barber is here to help

Allendale Strong fights I-49

A.M. Juster has published something like ten books of original and translated poetry and has served as the poetry editor at First Things and now one of my favorite journals, Plough Quarterly. 

These two men might sound pretty different, but they are in fact the same person. Over the course of his conversation with Jeff Bilbro, they discuss his tangles with Anthony Fauci, whether poets or civil servants are the "unacknowledged legislators of the world," what makes good political verse, the role of humor in poetry, translating Petrarch, and more.

Resources

A.M. Juster's website

His recommendation of a Richard Wilbur poem

Guest:  Will Hoyt

Will Hoyt, author of The Seven Ranges, discusses his journey along the Ohio River into the physical, historical and philosophical interior of the strip-mined region where he lives.  In the book, Hoyt transforms the area’s colorful past into a lament over the loss of an “integrative center” last seen in feudal Europe.  Well read and well spoken, this carpenter joins everything from surveying techniques to Jimmy the Greek into a compelling narrative of despair and hope.

Highlights

2:15   Unhoused Hoyt, Unhoused Ohio

7:00   This book brought to you by Ingram Barge Company

10:00 Big Coal comes to town

14:30 Corporate Power and the 14th Amendment

21:30 Polarization and the destruction of the medieval inheritance

22:30 The Civil War, then and now, explained

27:00 False opposites

32:15 Power chosen over contemplation

33:00 Make America Medieval (Again?)

37:00 Lightning round begins!

37:30 Jimmy the Greek and the Little Las Vegas

39:30 “Play that Funky Music” (almost)

41:00 Camp meeting revival

42:45 Surveying changes the world

44:00 Wendell Berry gets the Incarnation right and wrong

49:00 Wallace Stegner and the American Inklings

50:30 What’s on the cover?

Resources

Buy the book

Preview of The Seven Ranges from FPR

Hoyt’s FPR articles

“Once in a Lifetime” by Talking Heads

Ingram Barge Company

“Play that Funky Music” by Wild Cherry

And if you need help getting that last song out of your head,

try this very topical one:  “Paradise” by John Prine

Also, our thanks as always to Wendell Kimbrough for the use of “The Ballad of Freida the Goose”

Guest:  Joe Loconte

Front Porch Republic editor Jeff Bilbro sits down with Joe Loconte of The King’s College for a spirited discussion of the book-turned-film A Hobbit, A Wardrobe, and a Great War.  Bonded by war and steeled by friendship, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R Tolkien produced works of fantasy that have guided us back to reality.      

Highlights

1:30    Loconte’s Italian immigrant family

4:00    Bleak poet learns to love goodness

7:45    Myth, not just for escapism anymore

9:30    Joe finds Frodo in his 40s

11:30  Lewis finds MacDonald on a train

13:45  Beowulf, Aeneas, and the hero who faces failure

19:00  Pagans love Christian realism

21:00  A letter to Owen Barfield

24:30  Band of Icelandic brothers

27:15  Behind the scenes

33:00  War, friendship, and imagination

36:00  Courage is key

37:15  Creative friendship, pursued deliberately

Resources

Buy the book

See the trailer

Get to know Joe

Thanks as always to Wendell Kimbrough

Guest Host: Michael Sauter

Highlights

0:30 Murdock asks, “Storied thinker or Tolstoy story?”

2:15 David Cayley, a man of Ideas

3:00 Sauter conversation with Cayley begins

4:00 Cayley on cassette

8:00 Corruption of the best is the worst, the West in a nutshell

10:15 Charles Taylor in the secular amen corner

11:45 Place, Limits, and Liberty (and Illich)

12:45 Freedom and the Wackosphere

13:45 What is enough?

15:45 “Three Dimensions of Public Choice”

18:00 Technologies you can’t put down

21:00 Free-relatedness and dependency on others

22:15 The risk of birth

24:30 Doorways to nowhere

27:00 Computerized people and COVID

29:30 Cayley’s death cult

31:00 Apocalypse and revelation

33:30 Beware an institutionalized Incarnation

35:30 Illich and friends around the table

Resources

Full interview and Sauter review

Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey

davidcayley.com

Obituary in The Lancet

The Death of Ivan Ilyitch

Find Your Way Home

Prolific author and social critic Os Guinness discusses the current challenges for liberty and his hopes for the future. The Chinese-born, English-educated, Irish-rooted scholar who lives in America also shares insights from his time at L’Abri and talks some Arsenal football.

2:00 “Home” to Os Guinness

3:30 Beer in his blood

5:15 Under his own vine and fig

7:45 Hospitality lessons from Edith Schaeffer

10:45 The 1960s, Jefferson Airplane and the long march

12:30 The Call, place, and the Jesus Go-Fest

16:00 Soccer Super League

17:15 A quiet voice?

18:45 Civility and respect for words

19:30 Books over tweets

22:00 An intellectual knee on the neck of America

24:00 Freedoms, negative and positive

25:30 The pandemic and liberty

27:00 Respecting others in a free society

28:30 A Magna Carta from Mount Sinai

31:00 Civic education and the value of transmission

32:00 1776 v. 1789

34:00 Approaches to justice and Black Lives Matter

36:45 A post-rights world?

38:00 (Chief Justice) Burger for lunch

39:30 7 year-old revolutionary refugees of the world unite

42:00 Hope in the face of stark realism

osguinness.com

The Magna Carta for Humanity

L’Abri

The Williamsburg Charter

Find Your Way Home

Filmmaker John de Graaf pulls up a chair to discuss his 1997 documentary Affluenza; a forthcoming project on Arizona politician and JFK/LBJ’s Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall; the politics of beauty; and a whether John Muir should be cancelled.  Singer/songwriter Wendell Kimbrough closes out the show with “The Ballad of Freida the Goose” from his album “Find Your Way Home.”

Highlights

0:50  An FPR podcast, really?

2:15  “Home” to John de Graaf

3:15   Vachel Lindsay and the “Gospel of Beauty”

4:45  Gracy Olmstead's Uprooted

6:00  From Berkeley to a frozen Midwestern VISTA to Seattle

7:30  It all started with the film of the year

8:45  Alan Chadwick, master gardener

9:15  “Affluenza” explained

12:30  20 million views, a best-seller, and in the dictionary

15:45  Beloved by BYU

16:45  Take Back Your Time

18:30  French to Fox News?

20:00  Pandemics and “the good life”

25:00  David Brower, Republican

28:00  Floyd Dominy, a dam man

30:45  Stewart Udall, liberal conservative

35:30  LBJ pressures Udall on Vietnam

38:45  Barry Goldwater, Democratic donor

42:00  Politics of Beauty

43:00  GDP as Holy Grail?

46:15  Cancel John Muir?

50:15  Udall as cultural Mormon

51:00  Will beauty save the world?

52:00 Wendell sings “The Ballad of Freida the Goose”

Resources

John Murdock at Front Porch Republic

John de Graaf at Front Porch Republic

Films of John de Graaf

Vachel Lindsay

Gracy Olmstead’s Uprooted (reviewed here and here)

VISTA

David Brower

Stewart Udall

Floyd Dominy

“Find Your Way Home” album by Wendell Kimbrough

Four long-time Porchers joined us for this conversation: Patrick Deneen, Bill Kauffman, Katherine Dalton, and Jeff Polet.