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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....

I am not quite sure what Hellman's gets out of this, but it's the best public service spot I've seen. Watch their "Buy Canadian" commercial. Hat tip to Grace Potts.

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…

Suitable for Eester and Krustmas: Sunday's Coming! Hat tip to Brennan Hartley

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

"“It is the single largest threat to production agriculture that we have ever seen,” said Andrew Wargo III, the president of the Arkansas Association of Conservation Districts." Farmers Cope With…

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.

In 1983, Jack Stack led a group of employees to buy-out a division of International Harvester, the Springfield Remanufacturing Company (SRC). But Stack and his associates where not just interested…

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

I've been reading Bill Kauffman's immensely entertaining, and very serious, Forgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet: The Life of Luther Martin. This is Bill's attempt to get us antifederalists back into the…

I should not eat Snickers Bars in the afternoon. While it is not yet illegal, and probably not immoral, it is certainly fattening. But I like the veneer of chocolate…

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.

For our readers in the Oakland area, who have nothing in particular to do next Saturday, I will be speaking at the Manhattan Forum at St. Margaret Mary Church, 1219…

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.