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The New York Times offers  this piece by Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, who argues that, contrary to the skeptics, wringing our hands about new communications technology is really a bit…

William Cullen Bryant selected the month of his death: I gazed upon the glorious sky    And the green mountains round And thought, that when I came to lie   …

Should you have, for some reason, an interest in goings-on in the world of philanthropy and civil society, I invite you to lumber on on over to Philanthropy Daily.

New studies show that the cognitive effects of the internet are real and lead to, like, shallow thinking n stuff as well as, wait a sec, there's a butterfly....

My appearance on local radio yesterday discussing politics and law, both practical and philosophical.  Skip to the 55 minute mark.

Creeping Tyranny: From Constitutionalism to Arbitrary Power

Bringing sustainable food growing practices to the urban poor.

Down in West Texas there is a one-armed cotton farmer named Cliff Etheredge who has turned the sirocco that blows through his part of the country into an asset—and not…

Patrick Deneen recognized as one of America's top political theorists.

There's an honest-to-god crunchy-con candidate in the northern Wisconsin woods.

Some scientific arguments on energy use are based on data that do not take enough factors into account

The most recent issue of The American Conservative will be of interest to folks on the Porch.

Military use of PowerPoint confuses even as it simplifies.

Banning computers in the classroom shows, once again, that the way forward is the way back.

Coburn calls Nancy Pelosi a "nice lady" and earns the ire of conservatives.

Is the medium the entire message?

Dreher posts a wonderful reminiscence on his home, on place, and on the ravages of time.

My review of Jason Kelly's entertaining account of George Babbitt as boxing promoter, Shelby's Folly, is in today's Wall Street Journal.

Paul J. Cella III argues that the financial crisis was the result of a modern mindset committed to rationalism and abstraction.

Now that the admission of blogger taint is clearly in the open, one may as well produce one's own list of most influential books.

Recent addresses by erstwhile abortion advocates demonstrates some basic incoherencies.

I love to go in the capricious days of April and hunt violets.

This thesis has the benefit of describing a coherent and understandable affinity between and among my favorite American thinkers, writers, and statesmen.

Can I gloat?