The Declaration: A Christless Foundation for a Country

As most of America is getting ready to focus on the 4th of July, generally considered the birth of the American social arrangement, I wish to briefly examine this day from a Christian perspective. First off, while July 4 is “generally considered” the birth of the U.S.A., it is not. I covered this in-depth in …

The Falls, where Anarchy met Aristocracy

The Falls of the Ohio was an early name for Louisville, which is nicknamed River City and The Ville. The header pic of this essay is a view of the Louisville skyline, taken from the old cabin site on Clark’s Point on the Indiana shore. Louisville, Kentucky is the center point of the adult life …

An Agrarian Take #6: Building Raised Garden Beds

This will be a practical post. This is my 3rd year experimenting with raised garden beds, and I wish to detail for my readers how I build them. My first year I just built one long one on the end of my metal pole barn/tractor shed. This one was built out of stacked landscape timbers. …

To Be Approved

Despite the near obsession about the Covid-19 outbreak that has gripped America for the past eight weeks, I wish to ignore it today. Today will be a post to encourage my readers spiritually, as I expound upon 2nd Timothy 2:15. “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, …

Covid-19 and *Rethinking The Propositions* goes total Samizdat!

I am a day early by my normal posting schedule, but I desire to share this information now. The Covid-19 outbreak has seized the headlines for most of the month. As of this morning, the U.S. had over 175,000 confirmed cases, and over 3,100 deaths. Whether this will get under control in the next few …

Update: Covid-19 nears Kentuckiana

I normally use my mid-month post for an *An Agrarian Take* essay, but today I felt the need to post this brief message instead. My agrarian originally written for today post will appear here in mid-April instead. This morning there are 2,174 cases of Covid-19 in the United States. The Covid-19 coronavirus has arrived in …

Fractured Worldviews, Publishing, and the Future of GKS

I had an approximately 1100 word essay written for today, concerning politics, the concept of democracy, and the rise of Bernie Sanders from the far left to Democratic forerunner. It would have been my first political essay at GKS since last March, when I criticized Yang Gang. I had already uploaded and scheduled my essay …

An Agrarian Take #5: The Outhouse

Today I would like to talk about a past feature of agrarian life: the outhouse. Our ancestors used these, and some of us still have one standing on our property. I have some interesting familial stories to share. Obviously, a place for waste disposal is a fact of life. In early America, this took the …

Natural Order

“As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths”.---Isaiah 3:12 Today I would like to (relatively) briefly address a very complex topic, that of the natural order of a society. Late last year …

An Agrarian Take #4: The Internet

As agrarians, or aspiring agrarians, how much focus should we have on the internet? Should it captivate us, or bore us? The internet as we know it has only existed for around 30 years. And yet it has consumed mankind’s life, like no other invention before it. It distracts man from his day, and his …