Jeremy Beer
Articles & Reviews
Philanthropy & Fundraising
Academic Articles:
- “Charles Taylor on the Sources of the Philanthropic Self,” HistPhil (online), November 25, 2015.
- “Philanthropy, Charity, and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul,” HistPhil (online), November 9, 2015
- “Satan Was the First Philanthropist,” Communio: International Catholic Review 41, no. 3, Fall 2014.
Popular Essays, Articles, and Reviews:
- “Satan Was the First Philanthropist,” in Mark T. Mitchell and Jason Peters, eds., Localism in the Mass Age: A Front Porch Republic Manifesto (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2018).
- “Philanthropy and Rural Life: Diagnosing the Challenges,” Philanthropy Daily, January 24, 2018.
- “Philanthropy and Rural Life: Five Ideas for Rural Funders,” Philanthropy Daily, February 7, 2018.
- “Why Give? Recovering Charity from Philanthropy,” Comment, April 2016.
- “Traditional Charity Fosters Love. Effective Altruism Doesn’t.” Washington Post (online), September 11, 2015.
- “Imperialism by Philanthropy.” American Conservative, August 15, 2012.
Publications—History, Culture, and Religion:
Academic Articles:
- “Booth Tarkington’s Defense of the Midwest,” in Jon K. Lauck, ed., The Midwestern Moment: The Forgotten World of Midwestern Regionalism, 1880–1940 (Hastings, NE: Hastings College Press, 2017).
- “Communio, Economics, and the Anthropology of Liberalism.” In Lee Trepanier, ed., Democracy and Economics (Cedar City, UT: Southern Utah University Press, 2014).
- “Wendell Berry and the Traditionalist Critique of Meritocracy.” In Wendell Berry: Life and Work, ed. Jason Peters (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2007).
- “Agrarianism.” In Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, ed. Carl Mitcham (Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2005).
- “Wendell Berry: Traditionalist Dissident.” Review of Wendell Berry and the Agrarian Tradition: A Common Grace, by Kimberly K. Smith. Society 42, March/April 2005.
- Review of Place and Belonging in America, by David Jacobson. Perspectives on Political Science 32, no. 1, winter 2003, 60–61.
Popular Essays, Articles, and Reviews:
- “Salute to a Country Songwriter.” First Things (online), August 27, 2021.
- “The Coming Conservative Counter-Revolution?” Review of American Conservatism: Reclaiming an Intellectual Tradition, ed. By Andrew J. Bacevich. The American Conservative, September/October 2020.
- “Limits, Risk Aversion, and Technocracy.” Local Culture, September 2020.
- “The Black Legend Lives.” Review of Escalante’s Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest. Commonweal, July/August 2020.
- “The Magnificent Tarkington.” Claremont Review of Books (online), November 14, 2019.
- ‘’Seven Questions for Benjamin Schwarz.” American Conservative (online), March 23, 2015.
- “Reading Recommendations for 2014.” Symposium contributor. University Bookman, December 19, 2013.
- “How Rod Dreher Went Home Again: Review of The Little Way of Ruthie Leming.” American Conservative, July/August 2013.
- “Philosopher of Love.” American Conservative, January/February 2013.
- “The Therapeutic State and the Forgotten Work of Culture.” In Michael P. Federici, Richard M. Gamble, and Mark T. Mitchell, eds., The Culture of Immodesty in American Life and Politics: The Modest Republic (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
- “The Conservative Vote: A Symposium.” Symposium contributor. American Conservative, October 31, 2012.
- “Redeeming Places: A Review of Where Mortals Dwell.” First Things, June/July 2012.
- “Remembering Peter Stanlis.” Front Porch Republic, August 9, 2011.
- “A Day of Remembrance.” Front Porch Republic, June 6, 2011.
- “Christopher Lasch.” In Thierrey Baudet and Michiel Visser, eds., Conservatieve Vooruitgang (Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Bert Bakker, 2010), 317–35.
- “Cultured Conservatism.” With Gregory Wolfe. American Conservative, June 1, 2010
- “The Narrows of the Hassayampa.” Front Porch Republic, May 3, 2010.
- “Under the Mogollon Rim.” Front Porch Republic, November 5, 2009.
- “By the Book.” American Conservative, May 4, 2009.
- “Perfect Sowing,” The American Conservative, January 12, 2009.
- “Saved by the Bell Curve.” Review of Real Education, by Charles Murray. American Conservative, November 17, 2008.
- “What about Booth? Newton Booth Tarkington, Neglected Hoosier.” University Bookman 46, no. 3, fall 2008.
- “The Last Dissident.” American Conservative, August 25, 2008.
- “Foreword.” In George A. Panichas, Restoring the Meaning of Conservatism: Writings from Modern Age (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2008), ix–xii.
- “The Traditionalist Moment.” Review of Crunchy Cons, by Rod Dreher. University Bookman 45, no. 3, fall 2007, 21–25.
- “The Radical Lasch.” American Conservative, March 27, 2007.
- “Pieties of Silence.” American Conservative, October 23, 2006.
- Contribution to “What Is Left? What Is Right” symposium, American Conservative, August 28, 2006.
- “Philip Rieff and the Pieties of Silence,” in Philip Rieff, The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2006), 247–56.
- “Christopher Lasch: A Reconsideration.” Modern Age 47, no. 4, fall 2005.
- “Resurrecting Caelum et Terra.” New Pantagruel 2, no. 1, winter 2005.
- “The Idea of Kirk.” Review of Russell Kirk and the Age of Ideology, by W. Wesley McDonald. Touchstone, January/February 2005, 47–49.
- “Whig vs. Augustinian Thomists.” Review of Culture and the Thomist Tradition: After Vatican II, by Tracey Rowland. New Pantagruel 1, no. 2, spring 2004.
- “An Alternative Conservative.” Review of The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry, by Wendell Berry, ed. Norman Wirzba. Modern Age 45, no. 3, summer 2003, 254–58.
- “Why Aren’t Conservatives Conservationists?” Re:Generation Quarterly 8, no. 1, spring 2002, 18–21. Reprinted in Utne Reader as “A Greener Shade of Right,” no. 116, March/April 2003, 75–77. https://www.utne.com/community/a-greener-shade-of-right/
- “Preface.” Wealth, Poverty, and Human Destiny (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2003), vii–ix. https://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Poverty-Human-Destiny-Bandow/dp/1882926838/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&sr=1-1
- “‘Stickers’ Needed.” Review of Life is a Miracle: An Essay against Modern Superstition, by Wendell Berry. Crisis 19, no. 1, January 2001, 46–48. https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/the-importance-of-place
- “An Uncertain Legacy.” Review of Russell Kirk: A Critical Biography of a Conservative Mind, by James E. Person Jr. First Things, no. 103, May 2000, 53–56. https://www.firstthings.com/article/2000/05/russell-kirk-a-critical-biography-of-a-conservative-mind
- “The New Scientism.” Review of Consilience, by E. O. Wilson, and How the Mind Works, by Stephen Pinker. Modern Age 41, fall 1999, 359–64.
- “Science Genuine and Corrupt: Russell Kirk’s Christian Humanism.” Intercollegiate Review 35, fall 1999, 28–33.
- “Agrarian Thinkers Reconsidered.” Review of The Unregenerate South: The Agrarian Thought of John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Donald Davidson, by Mark G. Malvasi. University Bookman 38, winter 1998, 24–28.