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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.

If we continue reaching for the Twinkie, we shouldn't be surprised to find a government bureaucrat on the other end.

A group of Kentuckians are protesting mountaintop removal.

A review of a fine book by Glenn Moots which opens the door to rethinking about America theologically.

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.

The Green Bay Packers – like America itself - are a study in ironies: the smallest city owning a franchise in the largest professional sport, a non-profit corporation in one…

Here are two scenarios: one leads through democratic enlightenment to peace and prosperity, and the other through intractable economic problems to war and disintegration.

Is there any difference now between college ball and the NFL?

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

Richard Wakefield’s book of poems takes its place as one more important and hard-won advance in the restoration of good poetry to our culture.

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…

The gloom and doom is contagious. We live in a time when a certain respectability seems to attach to those who predict the demise of America, freedom, prosperity, or even…

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."

Peace on Earth is still our prayer.