Articles Archive
Rev. Jones and the Bonfire of his Vanity
Can modern Islam countenance freedom of religion and expression? This is one of the great questions of our time.
Our State Fair is the Best State Fair
My good friend and sturdy Kansas patriot Tony Woodlief writes about the best State Fair around in today's Wall Street Journal.
It’s a Boy! It’s a Girl! It’s a Technology-Enabled “Sex Party”!
How do we explain a culture that tells children that sex doesn’t matter much, that “girls can do anything boys can do,” and at the same moment is treating the…
Stephen Hawking Proves the Existence of God
Obfuscating language and philosophical ignorance do not prevent Hawking from suggesting that modern physics confirms Christian cosmology. Nature really does conform to uncreated law.
FPR in the Flesh
We hope to connect FPR readers with one another (and with some of our authors) sans pixels or gigabytes.
The Latest and Greatest: Just Another Brick in the Wall
Computers are not The Answer to creating better students.
Democracy as Spectacle: The Messianic Compulsions of our Republic
Americans do not need a Messiah because this nation is not Heaven on Earth.
Technique and Food: Why our Local Food System does not Feed Us
Here are the local puzzle pieces that we somehow need to fit together: great farms; committed, hard working farmers; a university of world class researchers; a highly participatory local political…
In NYC
I will be in New York City on October 6-7. For details, see here. If anyone is in the area and wants to attend events or plan an FPR event…
Allan Bloom and Homogenizing Nature
What is the purpose of education?
Pedestrian Diarist: Life without Car(s)
I know what Jesus would do: hate the car, love the car driver.
Neo-Feudalism and the Invisible Fist
So how did we get to a situation where the “freedom of markets” has come to mean “servility” and corporate control?
Breaking News
The so-called "wise men" of Michael Gerson and David Brooks's imagination don't exist. And the same could be said of the super experts that supposedly run things in our financial…
Calling All Girardians
This story (and the broader phenomena it represents which would include everything from the explosion of reality TV to Facebook) illustrates what appears to be fertile new ground for Girardian inquiry…
Community & Language
Their language is hopeful and would be recognizable to any tobacco farmer of the last hundred years. But now they are talking about food.
Porch Banter
Michael Gerson's column this morning seems a likely candidate to spur some friendly discussion on the Porch.
More Signs of Establishment Weakness
Another Tea Party candidate appears set to make political waves by unseating an establishment figure by running a rag-tag minuteman-type campaign.
Your Huddled Masses, Yearning To Make Par
I people really want to see the current state of the union, they need to take a look at my favorite part of Liberty State Park, which is the fact…
Do You Know Where Your Eggs Come From?
The options: A decentralized food system or a centralized regulatory system backed by the power of the state.
Why Australia Needs a Renewed Culture of Natural Marriage
Human nature, innate human longings, human biology, and human history are all on your side.
Ray Bradbury Turns 90
Raise a glass of dandelion wine to the dreamy kid from Waukegan, Illinois, who today becomes a nonagenarian. Herewith my appreciation of Bradbury from a while back: https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/06/ray-bradbury-of-illinois/
