Green New Deal, Tech Utopia, and Faith
“Growing a Green New Deal: Agriculture’s Role in Economic Justice and Ecological Sustainability.” Fred Iutzi and Robert Jensen consider the promise and peril of...
Robots, Andrew Jackson, and Spiritual Journeys
“Best of Bacevich.” Mark G. Brennan reviews Andrew Bacevich’s new collection of essays and finds his assessment of American foreign policy to be, as...
Conservative Treehuggers, Manufacturing, and Monks
“Farms, More Productive Than Ever, Are Poisoning Drinking Water in Rural America.” Jesse Newman and Patrick McGroarty find that fertilizer and concentrated manure are...
Useless Reading, Bothies, and Davos
“Fables of School Reform.” The lead of Audrey Watters’s essay says it all: “Over the past five years, more than $13 billion in venture...
Originalism, Local Fiction, and the March for Life
“Remembering Fr. Richard John Neuhaus.” Ten years after Neuhaus’s death, Wilfred McClay reconsiders his life and work. This is a rich, thoughtful profile that...
Free Markets, Transhumanism, and Populism
"On the Experience of Entering a Bookstore in Your Forties (vs. Your Twenties).” Steve Edwards explores the ecology of reading, pondering the way that books,...
Dairy Farming, Monks, and Kirk
“For Love of Place: Reflections of an Agrarian Sage.” Allen White interviews Wendell Berry: “I don’t know how to bring about a major transformation...
Craft, Rural America, and Beauty
The Porch will likely be quiet this coming week as we celebrate the Christmas season. Enjoy these next few days on a real porch...
Amish, the Farm Bill, and Universities
“Conscience and Resistance.” Earlier this year, Scott Russell Sanders described the profound effect that Thomas Merton had on his life: “Beginning with ‘Rain and...
Port William, Front Porches, and Mobility
“A Clearing.” The Hudson Review published a new short story by Wendell Berry, narrated by Andy Catlett.
“On the Front Porch, Black Life in Full...