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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?
November 24, 2010

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?
Mark T. Mitchell
November 23, 2010

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.
Patrick Deneen
November 22, 2010

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.
Mark T. Mitchell
November 22, 2010

Idiocracy

The future belongs to nincompoops, courtesy of Facebook, Twitter and the Interwebs.
Patrick Deneen
November 22, 2010

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?
Mark T. Mitchell
November 20, 2010

The Ode Familiar

A call for your favorite poems of place.
Katherine Dalton
November 19, 2010

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?
November 18, 2010

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.
November 18, 2010

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.
Jason Peters
November 17, 2010

In Defense of Culture

In which "culture" is distinguished from our contemporary "anti-culture."
Patrick Deneen
November 16, 2010

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…
Jeff Polet
November 15, 2010

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.
November 15, 2010

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…
November 12, 2010

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?
November 11, 2010

Sunny Side Up

There are still some enterprising farm kids around, making a good business out of your need to eat.
Katherine Dalton
November 11, 2010

Place

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