My father in-law, Ron, tells me a story of what life was like when he moved his young family (my wife not yet born) to the bucolic Southern California college town of Claremont in the mid-1960’s. Life was simpler then:…
August 2009
Recently, a friend who is conservative asked me: ”What should be the next great project for conservatism?” I mulled this for a bit, and then the conversation quickly passed to another topic, but the question stayed with me – not…
Devon, PA.… In the near future, I hope to offer a few essays on Catholic Social Doctrine, and, of course, on Caritas in Veritate in particular. I have not yet had time to study that encyclical, only to skim
Erie, PA.… Readers of the Front Porch Republic are likely looking for new ways to conceive of American politics and culture. They are in search of alternative categories to the existing options that are usually reduced to liberalism and conservatism.
Irving, Texas.… Since its beginnings with Aristotle and Plato, the study of economics has always been regarded as a branch of philosophy, a colony of politics and ethics. But all that changed in the late 19th century, when economists attempted
College graduates are certainly learning something – all that resume padding isn’t worth a bucket of spit when all the imaginary jobs that kept people busy moving around notional financial instruments disappear.
But that hasn’t stopped at least one enterprising…
