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If we continue reaching for the Twinkie, we shouldn't be surprised to find a government bureaucrat on the other end.

My Eliot week, I should say. All Readers of good will are welcome to join in the talk fest.

A group of Kentuckians are protesting mountaintop removal.

This new academic journal will address many themes central to the interest of porchers.

A review of a fine book by Glenn Moots which opens the door to rethinking about America theologically.

A visit to a CAFO makes it clear that to have sustainable agriculture, you have to make sustainable the lives and livelihoods of the people who do the work.

Time to sell the SUV. And buy a farm.

Let the unwashed eat Doritos.

Is the internet an agent of freedom and liberation in the world?

In Buenos Aires guerrilla gardeners scatter seed bombs throughout the city.

The Green Bay Packers – like America itself - are a study in ironies: the smallest city owning a franchise in the largest professional sport, a non-profit corporation in one…

Here are two scenarios: one leads through democratic enlightenment to peace and prosperity, and the other through intractable economic problems to war and disintegration.

Is there any difference now between college ball and the NFL?

What is the point of eating local? Are we actually feeding something besides our own ego and gluttony?

Richard Wakefield’s book of poems takes its place as one more important and hard-won advance in the restoration of good poetry to our culture.

What did Grandma really eat?

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…

I may be holding forth on a porch near you. All ye of good will are invited.

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…