Brian Brown: You have to love a place–not an idealized Place–before you can fix it.

Lessons from childhood and graduate school: what moving to a new place has taught me about friendship, community, and interdependence.

A few minutes ago, Roger Scruton and Tyler Cowen debated the question of whether social media represent the end of friendship. There was, however, an important point that was not touched, and that older adults do not seem to realize—that social media are not primarily a technological phenomenon. They are an attempt to use technology […]

Bryan Wandel Dear Buffalo Sabres, Last night, you lost Game Seven to the Philadelphia Flyers. You were knocked out of the playoffs like Chiang Kai-Sheck out of China. Like Pete Best was kicked out of the Beatles. Like Oreos dropped trans fats. It hurt. You were the best team in the conference since January 1. […]

An uprooted homebody ponders place, distance, and the survival tactic that Wendell Berry would certainly not approve.