Gardnering at Night, Again
Anyone blessed enough to be within shouting distance of Batavia, New York, this Saturday, October 26, at 8 pm is invited to drop by...
It’s Up to You Not to Heed the Call Up
During the First World War, the Kansas Socialist Kate Richards O'Hare was thrown into prison for violating Woodrow Wilson's Espionage Act. Her crime? Telling...
The Problem of Undertheorized Agrarianism in Most Actually Argued Localism
That's a terrible title for this post, I know. But hopefully it'll make sense, if you actually make it to the end.
First of...
Capital Offense
Washington, DC
I’ve been spending my semester in exile in our nation’s capital. My apartment is in Arlington, on a ridge overlooking the city. From...
Men of the World, Pick Up Your Brooms
Alexandra Bradner, a philosophy professor at the University of Kentucky, has a piece at The Atlantic on women's "second shifts." Noting that women, mothers in...
Barack Obama: Socialist?
Washington DC
When President Obama took office in 2009, many friends of capitalism were concerned that he would socialize our economy. Yet corporate profits have...
Scurrying toward Philly?
I have been engaged in a minor dust-up with my good friend Conor Dugan over reports that Notre Dame's Brian Kelly has been entertaining...
The New Domesticity
This is a highly confused article on the turn, particularly among women, to forms of "new domesticity." Its author, Emily Matchar, appears eager to deny...
Is America Too Big?
Is the United States dysfunctionally large, and thus destined to go the way of the giant radioactive ants once seen in old sci-fi movies? That’s...
Standing Athwart History Crying, “Me Too!”
The GOP strategists once again react to getting clobbered by calling for an embrace of their (alleged) opponents' policies. After all, if only Romney...