Front Porch Republic

The national dialogue has myopically focused on bringing back manufacturing jobs, which misses the point that the real goal should be stable communities.

Out here the road doesn’t speak theory—it breathes.

Phillips and Pauling help us to consider new emerging technologies and how we can avoid becoming cyborgs living off grubs and gruel.

Han turns so completely toward wholeness that his writing seems an alien arrival ... Writing, perhaps, not even to be read but simply to praise ...

The real work of judgment makes possible stability and repair, a work worth even one’s death, or, what may prove more difficult, a lifetime of obscure fidelity.

Brad Littlejohn’s recent book offers wise guidance for navigating our way through these times of rapid change.

Many are quick to posit that we have a wide range of rights, yet we are almost tongue-tied about our responsibilities.

Technology may assist the surgeon, illuminate the astronomer’s field, or console a mother in her sorrow. Yet it cannot give the soul the perfection it longs for.

At its best, Krause’s writing reminds us that poetry is not a luxury but a vital mode of human knowing, one that can re-enchant our disenchanted age and direct us once again toward the Good, the True, and the Beautiful.

We must begin to see and name how deeply the modern higher education industry subverts the very nature of embodied, placed, limited humans.

A box by a door. A hand that picks up. A name that calls an object to account.

Practicing the discipline of attention