Articles Archive
Thanksgiving, All Too Un-Human
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…
Whatever Happened to Community in Childcare?
What says more about our culture than who we entrust our children to?
Home of the Brave?
At what price security? A call for national fortitude.
The Gift of Good Work
What if every day was given to rest, eating, and relaxation?
NPR Does Something Right
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.
Sons and Daughters of Adam and Eve
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…
Alasdair MacIntyre and the Financial Crisis
Teaching ethics to traders is as pointless as reading Aristotle to your dog.
Idiocracy
The future belongs to nincompoops, courtesy of Facebook, Twitter and the Interwebs.
What is it Like to be a Man?
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…
The TSA and the Abuse Power
How much is enough?
The Ode Familiar
A call for your favorite poems of place.
Humanity and Honor, Culture and Clarity
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…
Further Clarity
Is the Porch anti-American?
Why I Shouldn’t Have To Pay Federal Tax On My IPA
If you want a reason to reach for a beer, read this piece, preferably at a bar featuring IPA’s during Happy Hour.
Kingsley Amis (!) On the Priesthood
Then it’s a bit up to you to be jolly crusty and jolly full of hell-fire and sin and damnation.
In Defense of Culture
In which "culture" is distinguished from our contemporary "anti-culture."
Person of the year?
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 Tea Party and the TSA
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.
Scientia and Sapentia, or, What the Schoolmen Knew
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.
Medaille and Manufacturing
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…
The American Conservative
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?
Sunny Side Up
There are still some enterprising farm kids around, making a good business out of your need to eat.
Place
Will I die here? I don't know. I have tried living away from here and it does not work.