There’s an interesting article on The Atlantic’s food section about how the Baltimore public schools have decided not to serve any meat to students on Mondays. Some parents have objected to this move, while meat industry groups have loudly protested it. The latter seems like a huge overreaction...

Here’s a much-discussed video of Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) saying Democrats are “trying on every front to increase the role of government.”

“Reformation Day” is almost always celebrated on October 31st, and this post by Zach does as good of a job as any in marking that eventful day. But for many churches “Reformation Sunday” is celebrated on the last Sunday in October, and this year that fell on this past Sunday....

Most of us are willing to accept some level of intrusion into our lives, both from the state (in the form of tax returns, vehicle registrations & the like) and from private enterprise (store savings cards, security cameras, etc) but I think its safe to say that things are seriously out of control...

NJ Governor Jon Corzine has pulled even with Chris Christie in the NJ governor’s race, according to recent polls. Well, perhaps that’s not the best way to put it. Corzine hasn’t pulled himself anywhere. He’s been in the same mid-to-upper 30s range for most of the race. But...

It is harvest time in Indiana; traffic on the back roads is becoming tied up as lumbering combines move from field to field. Semi-trucks laden with this year’s harvest roll down the National Road just as their horse driven counterparts did 170 years ago. As I take in this dramatic spectacle marking...

I suppose it falls to me, the resident Anglican of IntheAgora, to explain, parse, and otherwise spin the recent decision by the Vatican to extend full communion to whole parishes/dioceses of conservative Anglicans while allowing them to maintain their “Anglican identity.” Having only joined...

This year I have served as President of the Evansville-Vanderburgh Public Library, a splendid public system with a collection of almost 1 million items. But one of the biggest joys is not the large collection of material, but the 200+ employees I’ve had the pleasure of working with as well. During...

Montpelier, IN native Kevin Ford (a fellow alumnus of my high school) piloted space shuttle mission STS-128 in August and September, following in the footsteps of Hoosiers like Gus Grissom and a long list of astronauts with ties to Indiana. Although Ford graduated from Notre Dame, he requested that...

One topic which I plan to address in my blogging is evolutionary biology:  its accuracy, its scientific power, and its opponents.  In my own research, a critical insight from evolutionary biology underpins the entire theoretical structure of my work.  That is the insight that all living organisms...