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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.

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?

"Four Verse Letters" has just appeared from the Franciscan University at Steubenville Press.

Our health care "debate."

The future of education.

Practical suggestions from a practical reader. Thoughts?

In case you weren't able to be there.

Obama would like a health care plan that is academically approved, but not publicly. Any wonder it still hasn't passed?

To fill it out or not. That is the question.