- September 1, 2009Wichita, KS I just returned from my near-annual pilgrimage to the American Political Science Association's annual convention...this year held, ironically…
- September 1, 2009Ah, September. The enervating heat of August is less, and school starts up again with all the hopefulness and energy…
- August 31, 2009We set up here on the porch six months ago today. Many words later, it's still a nice place to…
- August 27, 2009This fellow has some nice things to say about what we've been up to here on the porch. So let…
- August 26, 2009Our fellow Porcher Rod Dreher says Dick Cheney is an outlaw. Of course he is right, after a certain manner…
- August 26, 2009Gretel Kauffman, 15, who is gonna be ten times the writer her old man ever was, reports from the magnificent…
- August 26, 2009Devon, PA. During the next few months, I shall be writing on the centrality of beauty and art to a…
- August 22, 2009From the indispensable Joe Bageant: "Dottie is doping out the Romney [WV] medical establishment for me: 'These Indians or Pakis…
- August 17, 2009Yet more news from the hustings: a growing number of people are growing their own tobacco for their own consumption.…
- August 17, 2009From The American Conservative---you really should subscribe, you know---my piece (www.amconmag.com/article/2009/sep/01/00050/) on the great Kentucky actor Warren Oates.
- August 17, 2009If you listen to mainstream "conservatives" in America today, the poster-boy for the movement is, of course, Ronald Reagan. "We…
- August 14, 200968 apparently. I had to laugh when I saw this. I recognize many of them as my interlocutors from the…
