Dear Friends . . . or Maybe Not!
Several times lately I’ve opened my email and found notices about people who want to friend me, but I don’t think that means they...
Gas Bag
George Will has penned an end-of-year pick-me-up for conservatives, counseling them that the likely prospect of Republican Presidential electoral defeat in November (given their...
Gifting Children
Some friends and I are celebrating the good news that one of our company was expecting another child. None of us are the Duggars,...
Iowa is for Peace-Lovers
BURNED-OVER DISTRICT, NY---Our daughter will be spending the snowy months rehearsing her role as Marian the Librarian in her high school’s production of Meredith...
Occupy Food! (And Other Simple Things)
As Christmas and the end of 2011 approaches, I find myself thinking gratefully about what Leroy Hershberger has enabled my students and me to...
The Founding Gardeners
I’ve just finished Andrea Wulf’s beguiling book entitled “ Founding Gardeners, The Revolutionary Generation, Nature and the Shaping of the American Nation”. Published this...
“Even mainstream Democrats have no time for Mr. Paul . ....
Devon, PA. We face only two feasible policies in America's engagement with the world. We can seek to be a bomb-throwing hegemon until the money, and...
Electing Beaver: The Politics of Place in the Public Square
“The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what he saw in a plain way...
A Tale of Two Symbolic Systems
I am angry with my friend; he has betrayed a secret of mine perhaps, or maybe instead he has formed an intimacy with persons...