Front Porch Republic

By 1926, Lewis had read enough of Eliot’s poetry to conclude it a great waste and devised a prank against Eliot that involved submitting mock-modernist poetry to "The Criterion."

Earlier in 2025 the U.S. Mint began reducing penny production, with the last of the coins struck on November 12th ... The reason the mint ceased production was because the cost to make and ship a penny had been well…

A city of gray concrete invokes the same belonging and responsibility as if there were a home decorated with nothing but concrete.

Myers considers four particular questions or misconceptions that many prospective students have regarding the liberal arts.

I walked into the makeshift classroom, saw quotations from McGuffey’s Eclectic Readers all around the walls, and assumed I was entering a traditionally conservative environment. But after a day of presentations and discussions with students of all ages conversations which…

The title poem, “Home Song,” is deceptively simple in its sing-song iambic trimeter and mostly monosyllabic words. Yet the reader is pulled quickly into a dream of home, hearth, children, hospitality, music, dancing, and feasting—a dream inspired by the sad…

The promise of liberation from drudgery quickly becomes liberation from purpose.

Because those dancing it have worked and stretched and warmed up for three months prior to performance, breaking in shoes and bandaging toes, the dream is anchored by reality.

The stuff of ordinary creation can shine and shimmer with a supernatural radiance

They may all, in their imperfect ways, bespeak our yearning

The classic era of film noir, the 1940s and 1950s, is a great reservoir of sin. We sometimes forget that all of the Biblical traumas and warnings can be found in this genre, under the cover of coats and hats.

On keeping yourself.