The place and date of Front Porch Republic’s second annual conference have been set. We’ll get together on Saturday, September 15, at Hope College in Holland, Michigan…. We will once again put contemporary political, economic, and cultural institutions and
Jeremy Beer
Since the first Gulf War, it has been popular among many Christian (especially but not exclusively Catholic) conservatives to justify American military interventions via just-war theory — which conveniently always seems to come down on the side of war. These…
The author of The Moviegoer would make a fascinating subject for a movie, or at least a documentary.
So reasoned filmmaker Win Riley. His Walker Percy: A Documentary Film, which I have had the privilege to preview, is excellent. It’s…
The federal courts’ extraordinarily broad interpretation of the Constitution’s interstate commerce clause has long posed a problem for localists — which is to say, for community self-governance. That has never been more true than in the past two decades, when…
It was a dark and stormy night when I first met Peter Stanlis. The year was 2000. I had recently become senior editor at ISI Books, and he had just arrived for our first-ever author event. I was glad to…
Phoenix, AZ.…
In the days leading up to this year’s Major League Baseball All-Star Game, which will be held in Phoenix on July 12, there is sure to be a renewed a focus on Arizona’s SB 1070, which reached its
Let the memories come, as I know they will, and be done with it.
Spring training is over, and I find myself at loose ends. Since moving to Phoenix a few years back, this has become the saddest time of the year for me. Over the last five weeks I’ve been going to as…
A new book provides profiles of seminal conservative thinkers. But Lord, please, please don’t read them through the outdated narrative of traditional cons, neocons, and laissez-faire cons.
Keeping alive a print vehicle for independent, thoughtful conservatism depends on us.
In which Bill Kauffman bids a hopeful aloha to the American Imperium.
A reader asks: anyone interested in joining the Ciceronian Society, a new APSA-affiliated group?
I hope that a Porcher will react at length to today’s dispiriting, but not too surprising, Supreme Court ruling in CLS v. Martinez, which upheld a public institution’s — the University of California’s, in this case — right to exclude…
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