The Editors

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.

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

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.

What's left? The overschooled and the underschooled, both of them unusually dependent upon government largesse, or upon government largeness.

It should help open the ‘closed shop’ of economic theory to a potentially rich and fruitful debate.

Jesse Walker of Reason is bummed that Russ Feingold lost: http://reason.com/blog/2010/11/03/a-farewell-to-feingold. So am I.

     The dank and drear of Election Day and its hangover were dispelled by the appearance in my mailbox of books from two most admirable friends.      John Rezelman—poet, wit,…

Michael Kinsley amps up Patrick's "false choice" rhetoric.

Where does that leave us? With the difficult job of recovering the sturdy Jeffersonian virtues of the freeman—virtues of thrift, being rooted in one’s place, hard work, pride of ownership,…

The turning of the plow in the dark fields and the turning of verses on a white field of paper are more than etymologically related.

The election offers us false choices - again.

At last, true localist and traditional voice from the land of Ron Paul and George Bush.

What does it mean to be a Kentuckian, or a Kentucky senator? Does place have any place in a national election?

There's a deep and revealing purpose to figuring out if you're an elitist or not, though I'm not sure this quiz actually gets at it.

Peace is a Jinn. It is that thing we are always in search of, but never enough to forget our accumulated envious resentments of those who are not like us.

Planting a greener Green Revolution.

Those so blessed by the Good Lord as to be within hailing (or driving) distance of Batavia, New York, might want to drop by the Pokadot diner tonight at 8…

Does food have a context of time and place?, or, How to make your own sausage.