Portfolio America Ignored Jimmy Carter at its Own Peril Atlanta, Georgia One of the many flaws in American governance is that the president is expected to be both chief executive What Marx — Harpo not Karl — Understood about Diversity Upper East Side, Manhattan, New York It was a beautiful—almost spring—morning in Manhattan, a perfect day for an excursion. So Visiting Thomas Merton Trappist, Kentucky Someone had placed a chair next to Thomas Merton’s grave, but I would have felt way too presumptuous Where the Rich and the Antelope Play Jackson Hole, Wyoming Most people come to Jackson Hole to ski, to enjoy nature, the snow, the elk, the bison, Evel Knievel’s America Twin Falls, Idaho I was looking forward to visiting daredevil Evel Knievel's grave in Mountain View Cemetery in Butte, Montana. Faces of My Year On a good day, I read, take notes, walk (now run), and hang out with my wife and talk to Inclusion, Mistrust, and the Problem with Putting the Roof on First The other day, I stumbled across an interesting essay in Christianity Today about what the collapse of membership in evangelical Iron Butt Hits the Road Athens, Georgia We just got back from another road trip in search of America, the country where I was born Yi-Fu Tuan and the Poetry of Place Yi-Fu Tuan’s 1977 masterpiece, Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience, is one of the handful of books I’ve read A Clever Mind Rheinland-Pfalz Every afternoon--seven days a week--my father-in-law reads the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) from cover to cover. Even with the « Previous 1 2 3 4 5 Next »
