Region & Place

Pure football?

Is there any difference now between college ball and the NFL?

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.

Son, Take a Good Look Around

Batavia's Tom Gahr on bummin' with his Dad.

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."

Memories: Montana Ranch

It was the kind of responsibility that forces a kid to grow up.

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.