Rootedness & Rand Paul
What does it mean to be a Kentuckian, or a Kentucky senator? Does place have any place in a national election?
A Requirement for Respect
Our region became, unwittingly, the domestic front of what is now surely a global energy war.
Handing Higher Ed to the Cripples: On John Williams’s “Stoner”
If there’s one thing we have in higher education today it’s a superfluity of bluster.
Peace: A Word that Shanghais us on our Road to Emmaus
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.
Gardnering at Night
Those so blessed by the Good Lord as to be within hailing (or driving) distance of Batavia, New York, might want to drop by...
As Goes Reid, So Goes America (Maybe, Unfortunately)
Harry Reid's election in Nevada is all about an argument over the direction of the American system. Would that we could argue about the nature of that system instead.
Facebook and Friendship
Does the risk-free security of a screen hamper the development of real friendships?