Last night I sent the following note (which I edit and redact somewhat here for wider consumption) to a large number of students who have made my time at Georgetown so memorable and worthwhile. It is a bittersweet decision, but…
The GOP in Limbo: How Low Can You Go?
by Jeff Taylor . 36 Comments
Sioux Center, Iowa. The Republican Party managed to accomplish three amazing things last week, in the course of two debates and one election. It revealed a bloodlust that easily trumps concern… [more]
Whoring in Shittim
by Jason Peters . 2 Comments
Rock Island, IL
Consider three stories, all from the nineteenth century, no two alike, all having one thing in common: each is a work of art in which a work of art is featured. I doubt there can be… [more]
The Closing of the Republican Mind (A Séance)
by Elias Crim . 14 Comments
Lucky me, to be invited to try the beta version of Google’s newest and coolest app — Séance!
After a quick download and install, I wasted no time in launching my first “collaboration,” picking… [more]
I think Walker Percy uses the following to illustrate contemporary life,… although I don’t remember where. But it goes something like this: When his grandfather walked down the street, everyone knew who he was, and he knew who he was;
In 1852, the first piano arrived in Stockton, California. Imported from Cincinnati, it was a gift to Mary Kroh from her father, a minister who had traveled west to preach to the thousands of gold miners in California. Shortly after…
I’ll tell you what’s going on. There’s a conspiracy.
Like other readers here at FPR, and across the web, I have been following the Great Salyer/Carter Debate of 2012 with much interest. I thought Mr. Salyer’s original article was outstanding, and in reply, Mr. Carter voiced a number of…
In the January 9, 2012 issue of Time magazine, Fareed Zakaria comments on what he calls “A Post-American World in Progress.” Zakaria observes that none of the world’s rising powers, including the rapidly growing BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India, and…
Washington, Ct.… The recent contretemps between the blessedly described “liberal conservatives” at the First Things web site and our own clutch of barking mongrels here at the homespun Porch revealed that the First Things folks might consider the important arena
I start my meditation with a true story that will serve as a parable. On his 21st birthday, the nature writer Francis Thompson was presented by his father with a bill for all the expenses of his upbringing including the…
There is no one worth spending a vote on.
Local man Jim Wheeler has finally had enough of the free website Front Porch Republic, which boasts an annual budget of less than $500. Although Wheeler contributes neither money nor content to the site, and has no connection with it…
