The Editors

Is the internet an agent of freedom and liberation in the world?

What is the point of eating local? Are we actually feeding something besides our own ego and gluttony?

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

Batavia's Tom Gahr on bummin' with his Dad.

– 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…

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

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.

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

They never quite got it when they asked me if I was “going home for Christmas” and I replied, “I live at home.”

If evangelicals are going to have trouble drawing the line in worship against Christian rock, will they really be reliable when it comes to evaluating the best texts and artistic…

“You go two blocks one way, you're in public housing. You go two blocks the other way, you're at Banana Republic."

An argument about tradition commences.

Two columns - by Brooks and Cohen - provoke reflection upon the nature of our civic crisis.

The recent controversy over the removal of a video from the Smithsonian offers a good occasion to reflect on the relationship between the artist and the polity.

You may think every five- to eight-year-old you know wanted an iPod this year. Not these kids.

Mama, they took my Kodachrome away.

TAC reconsiders Eisenhower's Farewell Address, delivered fifty years ago next month. Kauffman and yours truly participate in a fine symposium reflecting on the dangers of the "military-industrial complex."

In the ancient world, Christianity put an end to cremation, and for a century it was kept in check by Christian tradition.

While Peters is peddling his technophiliac vision below, I commend this ancient Catalonian tradition for your creche (and your garden), "the Caganer."

A splendid gift idea, especially for yourself.

But then Dylan is 69, and old enough to remember when the people of his place looked askance at empire. There were giants in the earth in those days.

From the mountaintop, the little people of this world appear very small indeed.

One way to celebrate a culture of life is to cultivate our bodies in death.