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2017
Catalonia Could Happen Here
November 29, 2017
As a scholar of Regional and Place Studies and a historian of secessionist movements I believe Catalonia’s brand of separatism…
Pornified Puritans and the Logic of Pornography
November 18, 2017
Hidden Springs Lane Al Franken is only the latest prominent man to be discovered as a lecherous cad if not…
A Call for a Politically Inclusive Classroom
November 11, 2017
Teaching Tolerance in a Time of Trump sounds like a short-course a firebrand professor might offer, though I mean it…
A Few Favorable Words About Jud Heathcote
August 30, 2017
I understood immediately why Skiles was a Spartan and I was not.
Good Night, Sweet Babe Magnet
August 23, 2017
It's as if two men are talking fondly about a woman both of them were once married to.
As North Korea Goes Nuclear Far East Ambassadors Must Speak Up
August 16, 2017
I lived much of my adult life under Terry Branstad’s multiple tenures as governor of Iowa, and I think he…
And Then Came the Chickens, Part Two: A Dispatch from Dumb-Ass Acres
August 15, 2017
“Bawk-bawk be-gehk!” she cries, and I know just where she’s coming from.
Breaking Through the Screen Door: The Jayhawks’
Hollywood Town Hall
, Twenty-Five Years Later
July 31, 2017
A couple of years ago my wife had a minor accident, the kind that results in an older car being…
New Book on Wendell Berry and Higher Ed
July 22, 2017
Front Porchers Jeff Bilbro and Jack Baker---the two JBs of Spring Arbor University---have just brought out Wendell Berry and Higher…
A Rebirth of Midwestern Regionalism
July 19, 2017
My review of an important new book by the midwestern historian, Jon K. Lauck, appears in the new issue of National…
To Bail or not to Bail
July 13, 2017
Recently David Brooks posted a New York Times op-ed lamenting an increase in “bailing,” which he defines as “flaking”…
The Dryers are Coming! The Dryers are Coming!
July 9, 2017
South Korea lives on the cutting edge of technology -- just ask the young smart-phone zombies that slowly roam the…
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