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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…

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…

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…

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…

Fortunately America still gives birth to her Framers and they come with every generation.

How to feel good about yourself on $50,000 a day.

Remembering Ike's "Farewell Address," fifty years later.