November 29, 2017As a scholar of Regional and Place Studies and a historian of secessionist movements I believe Catalonia’s brand of separatism…
November 18, 2017Hidden Springs Lane Al Franken is only the latest prominent man to be discovered as a lecherous cad if not…
November 11, 2017Teaching Tolerance in a Time of Trump sounds like a short-course a firebrand professor might offer, though I mean it…
August 30, 2017I understood immediately why Skiles was a Spartan and I was not.
August 23, 2017It's as if two men are talking fondly about a woman both of them were once married to.
August 16, 2017I lived much of my adult life under Terry Branstad’s multiple tenures as governor of Iowa, and I think he…
August 15, 2017“Bawk-bawk be-gehk!” she cries, and I know just where she’s coming from.- July 31, 2017A couple of years ago my wife had a minor accident, the kind that results in an older car being…
July 22, 2017Front Porchers Jeff Bilbro and Jack Baker---the two JBs of Spring Arbor University---have just brought out Wendell Berry and Higher…
July 19, 2017My review of an important new book by the midwestern historian, Jon K. Lauck, appears in the new issue of National…
July 13, 2017Recently David Brooks posted a New York Times op-ed lamenting an increase in “bailing,” which he defines as “flaking”…
July 9, 2017South Korea lives on the cutting edge of technology -- just ask the young smart-phone zombies that slowly roam the…
