Locavoracity
What is the point of eating local? Are we actually feeding something besides our own ego and gluttony?
Why Not King of France, Kentucky?
Not even suburban planners have come up with names like Archduke Ferdinand Estates or King of England Place.
The Statute of Limitations has Passed
They never quite got it when they asked me if I was “going home for Christmas” and I replied, “I live at home.”
Cabrini Dreams
“You go two blocks one way, you're in public housing. You go two blocks the other way, you're at Banana Republic."
The Fighting Bobs
But then Dylan is 69, and old enough to remember when the people of his place looked askance at empire. There were giants in the earth in those days.
End of the Culture Wars?
Ross Douthat suggests that the culture wars have moved to a different battlefield. I dissent.
On the Porch with Bye, Bye, Miss American Empire
I value a writer who makes me read with a dictionary. Godspeed the man with a memory.