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Brave ‘Net World

Is the internet an agent of freedom and liberation in the world?
Patrick Deneen
February 9, 2011

Rebel Gardeners Wage Veggie War

In Buenos Aires guerrilla gardeners scatter seed bombs throughout the city.
Mark T. Mitchell
February 8, 2011

Title-town

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…

انه الاقتصاد، غبي

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

Pure football?

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

Locavoracity

What is the point of eating local? Are we actually feeding something besides our own ego and gluttony?
Katherine Dalton
February 3, 2011

For Craft and Country: Richard Wakefield’s Eminent Domain

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.

Diet, meet Butter

What did Grandma really eat?

Why Not King of France, Kentucky?

Not even suburban planners have come up with names like Archduke Ferdinand Estates or King of England Place.
January 31, 2011

Ciceronian Society Conference at the University of Virginia, March 17-20th

Our panels will examine issues of tradition and place in the arts, literature, philosophy, and social/political thought.

Son, Take a Good Look Around

Batavia's Tom Gahr on bummin' with his Dad.
January 29, 2011

God, Philosophy, Universities

Review of MacIntyre's book.
Jeff Polet
January 29, 2011

Kindle Outsells Paperbacks

Does the Kindle change the way we read so that what we read is in the process changed?
Mark T. Mitchell
January 28, 2011

Glenn Beck Meets Front Porch Linguistics

– 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…
January 27, 2011

The Wilson Winter Tour

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

The End of the World

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…
Mark T. Mitchell
January 25, 2011

Of Dragons and Crescents

A revised foreign policy true to the principles of the Porch should turn the present one upside down.
January 24, 2011

Sex and the Nanny State

We are paying for the sexual revolution in more ways than one.
Jeff Polet
January 20, 2011

Much Ado About Inflammatory Rhetoric

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…

Can the Left Govern?

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…

Sargent Shriver, RIP

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…
January 18, 2011

The Family Frog Kisses a Toad

Fortunately America still gives birth to her Framers and they come with every generation.
January 18, 2011

Global Citizens of the World: Fly!

How to feel good about yourself on $50,000 a day.
Jeff Polet
January 17, 2011

Farewell to the Republic

Remembering Ike's "Farewell Address," fifty years later.
Patrick Deneen
January 17, 2011