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Thanksgiving, which may initially seem like a practice that is all too foreign to our second nature, can become an activity that realizes our more original human nature-i.e., the nature…

What says more about our culture than who we entrust our children to?

At what price security? A call for national fortitude.

What if every day was given to rest, eating, and relaxation?

Diane Rehm has selected Wendell Berry’s novel Hannah Coulter as the “Reader Review” book for November. FPR's own Jason Peters will appear as the off-color commentator.

From "Tran-sexual" Hoosier Street Vandals to the pinched daughters of Margaret Sanger and on to the Supreme Court of California, "the new sexual inversion demands recognition, even when there are…

Teaching ethics to traders is as pointless as reading Aristotle to your dog.

The future belongs to nincompoops, courtesy of Facebook, Twitter and the Interwebs.

And nowhere, not in so much as a page of this literature, does one discover even the beginnings of an answer to the question, “what is it like to be…

How much is enough?

A call for your favorite poems of place.

Sometimes when you sit in the pew you get the feeling that the preacher is talking to you. Of course, this impression is magnified when the preacher loudly calls your…

Is the Porch anti-American?

If you want a reason to reach for a beer, read this piece, preferably at a bar featuring IPA’s during Happy Hour.

A clarifying discussion.

Then it’s a bit up to you to be jolly crusty and jolly full of hell-fire and sin and damnation.

In which "culture" is distinguished from our contemporary "anti-culture."

I don't look to any of the MSM for enlightenment, but you can find curious cultural touchstones from Time to time, the former of which has released its list of…

The idea that the best way to reform government is to simply say "No!" is probably a bad idea...but for the TSA, I'll make an exception.

Modern science has given us modern miracles, like iPhones and atom bombs and Chrysler cars, but has not given us the wisdom to use them.

The book does a great service in dismantling economic shibboleths about trade, money, labor, and markets, and then reconstructing them along different premises that conform with both human happiness and…

Where else can one find such a wide ranging, wise, witty, and downright winsome collection of thinkers and writers in one tactile, fold-over-double, take-to-the-porcelain-throne, nap-with-on-the-couch, 100-percent-carpal-tunnel-free place?

There are still some enterprising farm kids around, making a good business out of your need to eat.

Will I die here? I don't know. I have tried living away from here and it does not work.