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My lunch with Bill Clune is served at the American Conservative: http://www.amconmag.com/blog/meet-the-marlboro-man/.

I'm lecturing at Virginia Tech on Friday. Come on by.

My Eliot week, I should say. All Readers of good will are welcome to join in the talk fest.

This new academic journal will address many themes central to the interest of porchers.

Time to sell the SUV. And buy a farm.

Let the unwashed eat Doritos.

Is the internet an agent of freedom and liberation in the world?

In Buenos Aires guerrilla gardeners scatter seed bombs throughout the city.

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.

What did Grandma really eat?

Our panels will examine issues of tradition and place in the arts, literature, philosophy, and social/political thought.

Review of MacIntyre's book.

Does the Kindle change the way we read so that what we read is in the process changed?

I may be holding forth on a porch near you. All ye of good will are invited.

We are paying for the sexual revolution in more ways than one.

Recently I was asked to participate in a symposium on Michael Berube's "The Left At War" for the journal "Politics and Culture."  I took the author to be scolding those…

How to feel good about yourself on $50,000 a day.

"Intellectual" and "Disinterested," as we use them, are new words. I "prefer" old words: Scholar, Monk, Contemplative, Lover of Wisdom.

I am proud to say I made the list.

An argument about tradition commences.

Two columns - by Brooks and Cohen - provoke reflection upon the nature of our civic crisis.

Caleb Stegall is set to become general councel for Governor Brownback when he takes office on January 10. Here is the announcement. No doubt his new responsibilities will leave less time…

Mama, they took my Kodachrome away.

ISI sponsors an on-line discussion on the limits of liberty.