Nonsense on Stilts? Dandyism? Okay.
If I were God, I’d keep other company.
What the Smartphone is Good For (Besides Nothing)
The invaluable works of our elder writers, I had almost said the works of Shakespeare and Milton, are driven into neglect.
On Dreher’s Benedict Option, the Christians and Localists Who Can Live It, and the Ones Who Can’t
[Cross-posted to In Medias Res] Rod Dreher and I aren’t close friends, but like many Front Porch Regulars, I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to associate with and learn from him a handful of times over the years, and like t...
Two Last Suppers and Ordinary Greatness: A Double Eulogy
What are the compensations on the downhill side of life?
David Bosworth on his New Book, Conscientious Thinking: Making Sense in an Age of Idiot Savants
No one who cares about the condition of our culture can afford to ignore Conscientious Thinking. --Jackson Lears, editor, Raritan
From the Nut House (And Into the Nut House) the Bar Jester Returns!
They should be required to share a double bed and commit adultery with each other every night—twice if possible.
The Politics of the Pro-Life Movement
A few years ago I wrote something of an irenic essay on the annual, January, March for Life in Washington DC. I was in the mood, then, for focusing on what I saw as the poetic part of that event more than the overtly political. I still be...
Dash, Grandpa’s Three-Legged Dog
I wasn’t there. In fact, I’m not sure who all was. And as I write this sitting in Michigan, I’m far from those who might know. My Grandma was alive then, of course, but she hadn’t yet met Grandpa, so she wouldn’t have been there in Ewing. A...
The Real Significance of Citizens United
Eastern Ohio Jimmy the Greek, the odds-maker and point-spread pioneer who was born and raised and trained in Steubenville, the former (thirties-era) cigar store paradise thirty miles to my east, once observed that “crime has always struck m...
Does Wendell Berry Have Rose-Colored Glasses?
Given the unpopular and uncompromising stands that Wendell Berry takes, it’s only natural that many readers fiercely disagree with him. Some of these disagreements are simply matters of preference. As one of his stories has it, “It is perha...