{"id":40979,"date":"2018-11-27T17:49:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T22:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40979"},"modified":"2018-11-27T17:49:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T22:49:03","slug":"a-renaissance-of-localism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40979","title":{"rendered":"A Renaissance of Localism"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Renaissance of Localism<\/a><\/h3>\n

The movement, once as small as the things it appreciates, is finding traction in our frenzied age.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Town Hall meeting in Kentfield, CA, 2017.Photo credit: Fabrice Florin\/Creative Commons<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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People are at last beginning to pay attention to localism.<\/p>\n

The idea behind the term is old\u2014ancient even\u2014but it appears to be \u201chaving a moment,\u201d so to speak, in this fractured and divisive era. In their recently released book\u00a0The New Localism<\/em>, Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak\u00a0argue<\/a>\u00a0for city-centric growth and governance, touting a more decentralized mode of leadership and problem solving. Both the\u00a0Brookings Institution<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0American Enterprise Institute<\/a>\u00a0have recently argued that localism could offer more accountability and empowerment to needy communities. David Brooks\u00a0wrote a column<\/a>\u00a0for the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0in July arguing that localism might constitute a \u201ccoming wave\u201d in U.S. politics and culture. And Duke Law School professor Joseph Blocher\u00a0argued for Vox<\/a>this spring that \u201cfirearm localism\u201d might provide a path forward for gun control and gun rights advocates.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s worthwhile, amid all this attention, to revisit the work of those who have been touting the benefits of localism for a decade or more.\u00a0The Front Porch Republic<\/a>\u00a0was founded in response to the 2008 financial crisis, as founding editors Mark Mitchell, Jeremy Beer, and Patrick Deneen recognized the profound inability of both political parties to respond to our nation\u2019s needs. They created an online magazine that offered an alternate view, one not so much \u201cDemocratic\u201d or \u201cRepublican\u201d as bipartisan and prudential. Their contributing team includes many scholars and professors\u2014such as Hope College political science professor Jeff Polet, Spring Arbor University English professor Jeffrey Bilbro, and Notre Dame architecture professor Philip Bess\u2014but has also featured the dynamic writing and humor of\u00a0The American Conservative<\/em>\u2019s Bill Kauffman and Manhattan native Susannah Black.<\/p>\n

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A Renaissance of Localism The movement, once as small as the things it appreciates, is finding traction in our frenzied age. Town Hall meeting in Kentfield, CA, 2017.Photo credit: Fabrice Florin\/Creative Commons People are at last beginning to pay attention to localism. The idea behind the term is old\u2014ancient even\u2014but it appears to be \u201chaving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[19652,10006,16732],"class_list":["post-40979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-gracy-olmstead","tag-localism","tag-the-american-conservative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40980,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40979\/revisions\/40980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}