What did Grandma really eat?
January 2011
Not even suburban planners have come up with names like Archduke Ferdinand Estates or King of England Place.
Our panels will examine issues of tradition and place in the arts, literature, philosophy, and social/political thought.
Batavia’s Tom Gahr on bummin’ with his Dad.…
Review of MacIntyre’s book.
Does the Kindle change the way we read so that what we read is in the process changed?
– for instance, the supposed proper uses of “further” and “farther.” This pedantic type borders on the obsessive/compulsive and tends toward becoming 8th grade English teachers, librarians, or NFL assistant coaches.
I may be holding forth on a porch near you. All ye of good will are invited.
“Don’t piss on my boots and tell me it’s raining” meant the bullshit detector was working just fine.
The gloom and doom is contagious. We live in a time when a certain respectability seems to attach to those who predict the demise of America, freedom, prosperity, or even the world.
A revised foreign policy true to the principles of the Porch should turn the present one upside down.
We are paying for the sexual revolution in more ways than one.
Now and only now, when people are being eaten in famine-stricken areas, and hundreds, if not thousands, of corpses lie on the roads, we can (and therefore must) pursue the removal of church property with the most frenzied and ruthless energy and not hesitate to put down the least opposition.
Recently I was asked to participate in a symposium on Michael Berube’s “The Left At War” for the journal “Politics and Culture.” I took the author to be scolding those he calls the “Manichean Left” because they threatened the ability…
Ladies, get your eggs ready!
The last pro-life Democrat on a national ticket has died. R. Sargent Shriver, 1972 running mate of the best Democratic nominee since Al Smith, was an admirer of Catholic Worker founder and saint-to-be Dorothy Day and an active member in…
