Chad Manley

Hey, breaux. I used to shoot on film in college and grad school, but ended up going to digital because the cost of getting the film developed made the hobby prohibitively expensive at the time. I have since bought my own home development kit, which means I can go back to shooting on film, but it also means that I have to practice my developing skills too. Until I perfect those, please enjoy some photos from around the acreage (and a bit in Indiana) all shot on film.

For the past several weeks, I’ve been overwhelmed by a thought that has been continually gnawing at me. While a number of commentators and pundits haphazardly slap the label of “fascist” on any political activity that they don’t like, I grew curious as to whether or not there was any validity to their use of the word, especially as a pejorative. This, of course, begs a very simple question: what exactly is fascism? And that’s where I hit a stumbling block. The problem with defining fascism,...