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Solidarity Hall Asks Some Questions of George Weigel

March 22, 2013

Solidarity Hall is a website interested in formulating new visions for civil society. Their initial project is an attempt to recover communitarian ideas from thinkers like G.K. Chesterton, Jane Jacobs, Dorothy Day, Simone Weil, E.F. Schumacher in order to inject…

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See You at the Movies…

March 22, 2013

Herewith the spanking-new trailer for Copperhead, which Ron Maxwell (Gettysburg) directed and yrs truly scripted from a novella by the great novelist of Upstate New York–no, not J.F. Cooper but Harold Frederic. Film will be released to theaters on June…

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Ten Years After a Space in Time

March 18, 2013

Memories….…

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Men of the World, Pick Up Your Brooms

March 15, 2013

Alexandra Bradner, a philosophy professor at the University of Kentucky, has a piece at The Atlantic on women’s “second shifts.” Noting that women, mothers in particular, are both “important” and “exploited,” she asks why exactly men are so dense when it…

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Farming without Dirt (and with fish)

March 14, 2013

Here is an article describing a method of producing vegetation and fish in a symbiotic relationship all without dirt. Could this, as the title of the article suggests, revolutionize the way we eat?
Aquaponics is a method of combined fish…

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Assess This!

March 14, 2013

The bartender says, “you’re all a bunch of idiots.”

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FPR Conference. Save the Date

March 13, 2013

We are currently planning the 3rd Annual FPR Conference. This year it will be held on September 21 at Pomona College in Claremont, CA. Program details are coming soon, but in the meantime, start planning to join us in September…

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W[h]ither the Family Dinner?

March 13, 2013

A recent study suggests that individualized and pre-packaged food changes the way families think about mealtime.
Could there be a link between the kind of meal eaten for dinner and the extent to which family members ate apart or together?…

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Mark Mitchell at Villanova

Layout 1 March 12, 2013

Berwyn, PA.…  Mark Mitchell, FPR‘s founding father and Editor-in-Chief, will deliver a lecture at Villanova University next week.  The event is open to the public, and any FPR readers in attendance will be made especially welcome.  See the details

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Less is More.

March 12, 2013

What happens when a really rich dude meets Olga and learns that companionship is better than toys? We get lectured.

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A Refreshing Bit of Sanity

March 8, 2013

I’ve been sitting in an airport most of today, subject to the inescapable barrage of manufactured outrage that is CNN, and was offered this lifeline of sanity from a reader.  She was responding to a posting of last December in…

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Speaking of Creepy Phone Commericals

March 5, 2013

Reader Deirdre points out that another phone commercial is at least at troubling as the Sprint Unlimited ad. According to this ad, The Droid is not an upgrade on your phone. It is an upgrade on yourself. And in case…

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FPR Books: A New Publishing Venture

March 5, 2013

For four years, with the exception of our annual conference, FPR has been primarily a digital venture. But like most reasonably healthy men and women, we crave a physical connection. So as we mark our four-year anniversary, we are pleased…

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FPR Turns Four

March 3, 2013

This week marks the fourth anniversary of Front Porch Republic. I recently looked back through these first four years and was struck by the wonderful group of writers who have gravitated to FPR along with the incredible number of essays…

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Kids Playing in the Streets

February 28, 2013

Here’s an intriguing example of how a community is attempting to create space for children to play.
Opening the streets to children means closing them to cars, and that’s why these events are precisely that – special events, rather than…

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Ciceronian Conference: Friday, March 1st and Saturday, March 2nd

February 22, 2013

FPR readers and enthusiasts are invited to attend the coming Ciceronian Society Conference at Mount Saint Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Maryland this coming Friday, March 1st  through  Saturday, March 2nd. FPR’s John Medaille and many other talented scholars such as…

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