The Editors

The demonstrations in support of union power in Wisconsin ought to speak powerfully to all localists, despite the complicated baggage they bring with them.

My lunch with Bill Clune is served at the American Conservative: http://www.amconmag.com/blog/meet-the-marlboro-man/.

For all the unpredictability of her outfits, there is one thing that has been quite predictable about her work: Gaga’s constant equation of love with violence and humiliation.

Thoughts on the "Andrew Jackson versus Mr. Peanut" debate.

I'm lecturing at Virginia Tech on Friday. Come on by.

A visit to a CAFO makes it clear that to have sustainable agriculture, you have to make sustainable the lives and livelihoods of the people who do the work.

Time to sell the SUV. And buy a farm.

Let the unwashed eat Doritos.

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.

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…

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.